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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2001-Mar-08
Ratatouille
2007-Jun-28
Pride & Prejudice
2005-Sep-16
Titanic
1997-Nov-18
Love, Simon
2018-Feb-16
Avengers: Endgame
2019-Apr-24
Weekend at Bernie's
1989-Jul-05
Dune
2021-Sep-15
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024-Jul-24
Joker
2019-Oct-01
Incredibles 2
2018-Jun-14

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