Contagion utilizes a unique kind of movie format to reveal a messy and connected modern life. This “fractal” approach enables the depiction of ways in which the chaos…
“The urban environment is essentially a built environment, a built environment that not only expresses human behaviour and experiences but also shapes and influences this behaviour and experience.”…
Comparing the 2025 film Sinners to the 1996 film Scream Imagine you’re home alone and you hear a strange noise coming from somewhere in the house, a noise…
I recently watched Contagion and I thought it was a great depiction of how diseases and misinformation can spread and cause a lot of problems in modern societies…
Contagion goes through its plot with the feeling of a documentary whilst also creating a realistic feeling for the audience. The way Contagion is filmed is similar to…
What We Already Know: The Unspoken Contract of Horror Before the first frame of any horror film, an unspoken contract is established. We anticipate an unsettling atmosphere, characters…
The natural, systematic storytelling of contagion mimics real documentaries’ slow revealing of a pandemic. The story not only follows the individuals affected by the disease, but the processes…
A horror movie seeks to instill fear, anxiety, and revulsion in its audience. It accomplishes this using various methods, frequently incorporating elements such as creatures, catastrophic events, and…
Horror films have always served as cultural mirrors, revealing the anxiety, fears and intentions that shape a society at a particular moment in time. Sinners (2025) and Pan’s…
Even before watching a horror movie, we know its core purpose is to scare and shock people. Horror movies provide short anxieties, suspense, and jumpscare, with terrifying background…
Watching any movie especally horror in 2025 most people already have an idea of what it will be like. Modern horror usually follows certin visual and thematic patterns so even someone who has never seen…
The uneasy eerie feeling you get from a well made horror film is a thrill no other genre can capture. Before choosing a horror film in theatres or…
Before watching a horror movie, we have the general understanding that we will be scared or unsettled for most of the movie. The main goal of a horror…
At first glance, it may seem that 28 Days Later (2002) and Sinners (2025) are similar only in genre. These are stories about different eras, different monsters, and,…
Until recent years, the horror genre has been facing a decline. After the initial boom of influential horror films such as Halloween (1978) and The Exorcist (1973), the…
Before anyone presses play on a horror movie, we already carry a whole backpack of expectations. We know the shadows will matter more than the light, that the…
Sinners and Evil Dead: Army of Darkness are similar in ways that I think might be interesting enough to talk about, and I kind of want to see…
“Indigenous artists have no problem portraying possible undesirable futures […] because these narratives are evocative to our known realities…we are living in a dystopian, settler-occupied oligarchy fueled by…
The basic conception of the horror genre is to spook the audience or viewers. Although, each horror movie differs with how they go about this. Some of the…
Horror movies have a very special importance in the world’s culture and is a genre usually associated with Halloween and fall as that’s when it starts to get…