Refraction Horror

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The Arctic’s Grisly Past Is a Horror Story

The Atlantic 22 Sep 2021

As the men march inland, The Terror alternates between Tuunbaq’s jump scares and the body horror of scurvy, while a caulker named Cornelius Hickey (Adam Nagaitis) foments mutiny ... The horror in The North Water is not supernatural; Arctic remoteness and punishing conditions act like a prism, refracting a concentrated beam of human brutality.

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Last Night in Soho, review: a chilling dance through Swinging London – under Diana Rigg’s eyes

The Daily Telegraph 04 Sep 2021

For a sense of its tone, imagine one of those playful-yet-cautionary postwar British dramas about innocent young women making their way in the big city – most of them seemed to star Rita Tushingham, who has a talismanic supporting role here as Eloise’s grandmother – then refract it through the lurid crack-up horror lens of Suspiria or Repulsion.

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Beautiful Violence: Prano Bailey-Bond On 1980s Horror Censor

The Quietus 20 Aug 2021

Bailey-Bond implicitly refracts these issues through the prism of a genre horror film, discussing them intertextually through the inversion of an age-old paradox in film academia, the so-called Final Girl theory popularised by polemicists like Camille Paglia; that video nasties, ...

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Best Horror Movies About Police, Lawyers, and Legal Systems

Collider 04 Jun 2021

And as Renee pores through these surreally refracted pieces of body cam carnage, of Rose's "monster" Taneesha Branz destroying the police in the way we've seen police destroy so many senselessly lost lives, we see her begin to understand the depths of her system's corruption and horrors.

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10 Hardest-To-Watch Movie Scenes

What Culture 12 Sep 2020

Sometimes, however, filmmakers want to refract a reality that we’d much rather forget, delving us head-first into the horrors of human nature by sadistically playing them out on screen ... these films say no more ... Advertisement. Next .

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Reckoning with Slave Play, the most controversial show on Broadway

Vox 05 Dec 2019

Paul Alexander Nolan (Jim) and Joaquina Kalukango (Kaneisha) star on Broadway in Slave Play . Matthew Murphy ... Aja ... Constance ... Aja ... To me, the ultimate act of refraction that Slave Play enacts is to serve as a microcosm of the act and effect of colonization — in its horror, perversion, the way it twists desire and irrevocably warps human relationships ... .

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A comedy about Nazis that’s actually funny? Yes, but ‘Jojo Rabbit’ also is deadly serious

The Spokesman-Review 07 Nov 2019

Refracted through the childlike perspective of its alternately sweet and appalling 10-year-old protagonist, the horrors of Germany under Hitler’s Reich aren’t defanged as much as defenestrated ... The horrors that Jojo applauds so enthusiastically aren’t any less grievous for being refracted through his imagination ... .

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FICTION: THE CHARISMATIC THUG

Dawn 03 Nov 2019

Call Me Al ... But let us return to Al ... But like H.M ... Larger than life, diabolically callous and yet, at times, almost touchingly human, Al is given so many diverse aspects by Sheikh that the book occasionally seems like a mini-refraction of the terrifying ‘Guernica’ — a canvas that immortalises the horrors of war and underscores the ugly side of power ... .

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A comedy about Nazis that's actually funny? Yes, but 'Jojo Rabbit' is also deadly serious

The Keene Sentinel 24 Oct 2019

Refracted through the childlike perspective of its alternately sweet and appalling 10-year-old protagonist, the horrors of Germany under Hitler’s Reich aren’t defanged as much as defenestrated ... The horrors that Jojo applauds so enthusiastically aren’t any less grievous for being ...