Scanners is horror turned inside out. And outside in. Thought crimes are reified, as a subculture of”telephatic curiosities” (aka, “scanners”) are able to use their brains to kill. Scanners are social outcasts, unable to quell the voices in their heads and it’s this “loss of self” that is explored in what can be described asContinue reading “Scanners”
Category Archives: Horror
Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead may be the talkiest, goriest (thanks to the fantastic work of Tom Savini and Gregory Nicotero) and most languidly-paced of Romero’s Dead trilogy, but it’s by no means the slightest. DOTD focuses on community building, rather than one that’s being torn down. It’s a post-apocalyptic zombie film rife with Platonic tension between guardiansContinue reading “Day of the Dead”
Really Awful Movies 