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
Mad Max: Fury Road
2015-May-13
Tenet
2020-Aug-22
Joker
2019-Oct-01
Doctor Strange
2016-Oct-25
Avengers: Endgame
2019-Apr-24
Return of the Jedi
1983-May-25
Her
2013-Dec-18
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003-Dec-17
Fight Club
1999-Oct-15
Dune
2021-Sep-15

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