80
Runtime
2019-Jul-23
13m
Languages
Genres
Horror
Overview
Conor Bateman has sliced clips from (mainly American) horror films in which a cinema audience is slain schlockily in a theatre – an overlooked, self-reflexive trope across the genre. In each sequence, the screen is masked out to reveal the prior sequence: each audience is successively watching the killings that we, the actual audience, have just seen. The onscreen audience never leaves the theatre – there’s nowhere else in this world beyond the cinema, and the scenes of entrapment and containment play out in similarly-framed spaces of chaos (what if what we watched onscreen leaked out?). Without a scrap of ideology-addled earnestness, the tone moves from playful to inevitable. Like a game, it all loops together in an oddly fun, self-sustaining spiral of dramatic irony.

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Get Over It
2001-Mar-08
Titanic
1997-Nov-18
Shutter Island
2010-Feb-14
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003-Dec-17
American Beauty
1999-Sep-15
The Matrix
1999-Mar-31
RoboCop
1987-Jul-17
Lethal Weapon 2
1989-Jul-07
Rain Man
1988-Dec-12
Back to the Future
1985-Jul-03
The Big Lebowski
1998-Mar-06

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