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In The Deliverance, director Lee Daniels uses the horror genre to viscerally explore spiritual warfare, generational trauma, and the quest for redemption. Ebony’s battle to protect her family coincides with her own battle with internal darkness, with systemic oppression.

Blink Twice joins a long line of r*pe-revenge films that started with Bergman’s The Virgin Spring and has continued through the decades with films like The Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave, Red Sonja, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Promising Young Woman. Kravitz brings the genre into the social media age, playing on modern aspects of society that involve influencers and reality-versus-Instagram.

What is Longlegs about? Longlegs is about the ways in which parents protect children and how that can often take the form of preventing them from growing up. Ruth lies to Lee about what she does for a living, who…

Alien: Covenant’s major theme is about the relationship between creators and their creations. As David says, near the end of the film, pretending to be Walter, “I think if we are kind, it will be a kind world.” There’s an unspoken corollary there: if we are unkind, it will be an unkind world.

Every question answered. We spent over 30 hours studying, dissecting and hopefully explaining everything there is to know about The Wailing.

Welcome to the best explanation of Perfect Blue available on the internet. This article will analyze, calculate, disentangle and decode all of the essential details required to understand the deeply nuanced and convoluted story of Perfect Blue. What happened? Why…

Why is the movie called Under the Skin? The title Under the Skin is a crucial clue to what’s happening in the movie. It gets at the idea of looking beneath the surface. At going beyond appearance. It’s similar to…

What is Alien: Romulus about? Alien: Romulus is about the difficulty in leaving the life you’ve known for something new. Whether that’s leaving a third world country or a small town or a job or relationship. The xenomorphs embody the…

Prometheus is about the desire to meet your maker and how that is probably an unfulfilling venture. You’ll never get the answers you’re looking for. Kind of the same thing as “Never meet your heroes” because you might realize they’re not as amazing in real life as you thought.

Cuckoo is a very strange coming of age story, where the 17-year-old Gretchen has to confront her grief over her mom’s passing as well as the difficulty in accepting her father’s new family and her place in it. She views her half-sister, Alma, as an intruder, while also feeling like one herself.

Rebel Without a Cause is a coming of age story that tries to put the woes of being a teenager into the context of the universe as a whole. For the 1950s, the nihilistic, existential journey Jim Stark goes on was perfect for a generation trying to find its way in the aftermath of World War II.
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