Body Horror – ZooScope

Rosemary Sharpley
20th January 2023
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Annihilation. Dir. Alex Garland. Netflix. 2018.

Annihilation. Dir. Alex Garland. Netflix. 2018. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image-12.jpeg 516 344 Rosemary Sharpley Rosemary Sharpley https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/db572b9b5728eec5b0a91ff6b424d332?s=96&d=mm&r=g 20th January 2023 6th March 2023

“It’s not destroying. It’s creating something new”. https://youtu.be/0m3cPEbwwhg Figure 1 – film trailer Annihilation, by definition, is something “Completely destroyed; nothingness, non-existence”, Yet Alex Garland’s 2018 film entirely rethinks what…

An American Werewolf in London. Dir. John Landis. Universal Pictures. 1981.

An American Werewolf in London. Dir. John Landis. Universal Pictures. 1981. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/507D4F73-4669-4655-A580-4A8D1EAD1058.webp 863 484 Prail Coffell Prail Coffell https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ea8493c40c49042f7660d2d40126bb1a?s=96&d=mm&r=g 20th January 2023 6th March 2023

“The wolf’s bloodline must be severed; the last remaining werewolf must be destroyed. It’s you David.” An American tourist, traumatised and alone wakes up in a London hospital after an…

Raw. Dir. Julia Ducournau. Focus World. 2017.

Raw. Dir. Julia Ducournau. Focus World. 2017. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 George Knighton George Knighton https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edfe51eebeaec06a52627bba69368420?s=96&d=mm&r=g 28th January 2021 17th March 2022

When Julia Ducournau’s debut feature film Raw (2017) was shown at Toronto’s Film Festival, paramedics were called to the scene after cinema-goers fainted during the screening. Raw tells the story of highly gifted 16-year-old…