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Death Cult Mag explores horror, experimental, unconventional, and unforgettable cinema.
Welcome to my new site. Since many of you may be new here, I thought it would be valuable to share my favorite or most notable pieces from recent years.
Featured here is the first piece of film analysis I ever shared with the world. Enjoy.
xx - V
To be a ballerina is to strive for perfection, to be beautiful. But this beauty is haunted by tragedy both on and off the stage. On stage, the ballerina is thought to be an ethereal, pure, and fragile being. Maidens and princesses in search of love and dying of broken hearts. Images of traditional femininity. Hidden backstage is the fierce technicality and strenuous physical and psychological training needed to achieve such an image.
Mamiya is an agent of chaos, a complete disruption of capitalist repression, and could be seen as representing the fear of losing control when the reality is that, in a world where we cannot conjure an answer for who we are, none of us were ever completely in control.
One of the most controversial subjects in horror has continued to return to the screen time and time again. This contentious subject can offer many a feeling of catharsis, while others stand firm on its exploitative nature but what is it about the rape-revenge narrative that keeps bringing filmmakers and audiences back?
To be a ballerina is to strive for perfection, to be beautiful. But this beauty is haunted by tragedy both on and off the stage. On stage, the ballerina is thought to be an ethereal, pure, and fragile being. Maidens and princesses in search of love and dying of broken hearts. Images of traditional femininity. Hidden backstage is the fierce technicality and strenuous physical and psychological training needed to achieve such an image.
