Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
9th Jul 03
⭐78.15%
: 21
Gone with the Wind
15th Dec 39
⭐79.25%
: 6
The Breakfast Club
15th Feb 85
⭐77.28%
: 5
Rocky III
28th May 82
⭐68.95%
: 6
Rocky V
16th Nov 90
⭐58.00%
: 4
Create with Love ❤️ by Zaw Myint
Runtime
⭐80.00% /
23rd Jul 19 /
Horror
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.