ZooScope

Author: Chloe Goodwin

  • Tusk. Dir. Kevin Smith. Smodcast Pictures. 2014

    The film opens with Wallace and Teddy who host a popular podcast where they discuss viral videos and interview internet celebrities. Wallace travels to Canada to interview someone, however upon arrival it is clear they have committed suicide. Annoyed he flew to Canada for nothing, he stumbles across a letter in a pub’s bathroom stall…

  • It: Chapter Two. Dir. Andy Muschietti. Warner Brothers. 2019

    Following this scene, we see the characters of Richie (Bill Hader) and Eddie (James Ransone) petrified by Pennywise, a shape-shifting creature known as a Glamour, following them; they open a door and are greeted by a cute Pomeranian dog, creating an air of bathos. Here, we have a conflict of genres as the primary classification…