Tag Archives: Horror

Ideological Fission: Cloverfield and Terrorism

By Steen | September 29, 2008

After the very successful conference Monsters and the Monstrous, I’m posting my paper here.
One of the first things which is immediately noticeable about Matt Reeves’ Cloverfield is the way it serves as a form of the return of the repressed of 9/11. Most critics who saw it, could not help but remark upon the similarity [...]

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Torture films

By Steen | May 9, 2007

OK, so I’m researching for a paper on torture films for a call for papers. For now, I’ll post some of my considerations on torture. First of all, however, I’m working on torture films and so will deal with the representation of torture in films as an aesthetic practice rather than actual torture such as [...]

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Ruggero Deodato, Cannibal Holocaust

By Steen | March 21, 2007

Deodato’s much-maligned Cannibal Holocaust is in many ways the ultimate exploitation film, and yet also much more. While the acting is at times rather stilted, and the violence seems gratuitous like most other exploitation films, this film rather enacts the desire of the spectator to see the unseen.
Cannibal Holocaust thus enacts and stages itself - [...]

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Lee Wiseman, Underworld Evolution

By Steen | March 13, 2006

Underworld Evolution is the sequel to Underworld, also directed by Lee Wiseman. It is a very direct continuation of the first film, and in this way it also continues the storyline established by the first film. We learn more of the history of vampires and werewolves, which is in fact one of the film’s stronger [...]

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Bruce Campbell, Man with the Screaming Brain

By Steen | December 19, 2005

Bruce Campbell’s directorial debut is a very entertaining film, but it also says a lot about the concept of cult films. Campbell’s film is aimed squarely at the fans of silly B-movies, more in the vein of Bubba-Hotep than Evil Dead though there is a clear over-lap. It is also completely dependent upon Campbell’s star [...]

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