Синий диван
Изображение и насилие: авторы журнала «Синий диван» о снаффе
Олег Аронсон, Эдуард Надточий, Андрей Горных, Сергей Зотов, Александра Мороз о снаффе.
Cinema and Video
Murder-Set-Pieces asap
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“Murder-Set-Pieces” in its variations encapsulates the spectrum of horror—from tame entertainment to boundary-pushing art
Cinema and Video
Millimeters of death
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8MM is more than a thriller—it’s an exploration of the dark underbelly of human nature, where moral boundaries blur, and truth comes at a devastating cost.
Cinema and Video
A Reappraisal of Ridley Scott’s The Counselor: A Brutal, Misunderstood Gem of the 2010s
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The Counselor is not just a film but an experience—one that lingers long after the credits roll, like a nightmare from which there is no awakening.
The Lure of the Forbidden: Alejandro Amenábar’s *Tesis* and the Unsettling Power of Cinema
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By refusing to sensationalize its subject, Amenábar crafted a horror film that is as thought-provoking as it is unsettling, a testament to the power of cinema to confront us with our darkest impulses....
Cinema and Video
Revisiting "Hostel": Eli Roth's Enduring Cautionary Tale of Horror and Human Depravity – 20 Years Later
“Hostel” as a most important horror of 2000s.
Sex, violence and Harmony Korine
“Trash Humpers” isn’t for everyone—it’s a endurance test, a mirror to our darker selves.
The Ontological Violence of The Benefactress: What Kind of Being Does This Film Have?
If André Bazin once dreamed of a “myth of total cinema” in which the image would finally coincide perfectly with reality, *The Benefactress* is the nightmare fulfilment of that myth.
The Phenomenon of Shock Videos in the Modern World: A Descent into Digital Abyss
Shock videos encapsulate the modern world’s paradoxical embrace of horror: a mirror to our psyches, philosophies, and societies.
Dariuss: Spectral Beings and the Eternal Echoes of Loss in Guerrilla Metropolitana's Experimental Horror
Dariuss masterfully entwines ontology’s thrown being with hauntology’s spectral calls, rendering grief a machinery where existence is ghostly prosthesis.
Dead tapes
In the end, *Snuff 102* isn’t for shelves; it’s for reckoning. It posits that true horror isn’t the gore—it’s the mirror.
