Body Horror

Annihilation. Dir. Alex Garland. Netflix. 2018.

Annihilation. Dir. Alex Garland. Netflix. 2018. 516 344 Rosemary Sharpley

“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…

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

An American Werewolf in London. Dir. John Landis. Universal Pictures. 1981. 863 484 Prail Coffell

“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…

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

Raw. Dir. Julia Ducournau. Focus World. 2017. 150 150 George Knighton

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…

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