Primal Screen first published by VODzilla.co Documentarian Rodney Ascher likes to explore the nexus between frightening media and our own haunted unconscious. He is perhaps best known for his feature-length Room 237 (2012) which focused on the hermeneutic overexuberance which some individuals have obsessively applied to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) – and while his follow-up,…
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Annabelle: Creation (2017)
Annabelle: Creation first published by Sight & Sound, September 2017 Review: Sequels tends to move forward, but with Annabelle – a child-size, creepy looking porcelain doll and also a conduit for a demon looking to possess souls and spread evil – it seems that the only way is backward. Her first on-screen appearance in the 1970-set…