The first vic gets zapped to death — long before a public service announcement warning of the dangers of Christmas lights can save him. The Christmas season is upon us, so welcome to the seasonal horror Silent Night. ‘Tis a killer jolly elf movie where the killer is less than jolly, but gets his jollies building up an impressiveContinue reading “Silent Night”
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Stereo
Is abstract thought possible without language? David Cronenberg’s first full-length feature, the silent (save for voiceovers) STEREO, explores this very question with telepathist test subjects isolated on the brutalist commuter campus of the University of Toronto, Scarborough. As Steven Pinker put it in The Stuff of Thought, “We know that human thoughts are stored in memory* inContinue reading “Stereo”
