Category: 1970s
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David Cronenberg’s breakout hit makes the sexual freedom of the 1970s a nightmare in this tense horror film that turns luxury apartments into sites of blood and carnage A lot of horror films, especially body horror films, concern how our relationships with people affect us on a deep, internal level. One thing I’ve noticed while…
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This highly underrated work of science fiction takes an extraterrestrial perspective on our world by questioning who is the real alien: those from other planets, or ourselves? Science fiction is always a tricky genre to navigate. Sometimes the best way to explore humanity is by venturing outside of it, even though sometimes the fascination with…
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A Clockwork Orange got deep under my skin. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film that’s made me so uncomfortable, and I could point to a variety of things within the movie that accomplished in eliciting that feeling, from the graphic rape scene in the beginning to the Ludovico treatment. But I think what’s…
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