“My personal favourite: believing that you’re in more than one place at the same time”, says Jake (Jake Weary) to Vicky (Ashley Benson), some way into Alone at Night, as he lists the hallucinatory effects of taking salvia. In fact this is also an effect of watching any film, television or online video: the viewer,…
Elephant first published by Movie Gazette Near the beginning of Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko (2001), two lengthy single-take tracking shots follows Donnie and other pupils and teachers through the corridors and exteriors of his high school, and as the camera meanders about in a hallucinatory swirl, the nostalgic familiarity of institutionalised adolescence is made to seem…
Dark Stories first published by Through the Trees Single mother Christine (Kristanna Loken, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, 2003) comes under attack from a psychopathic Chucky-like semi-animated doll that has just been delivered to her home. Bound to a chair in the basement, she tells the knife-wielding mannequin a series of five ‘scary stories’…