Subverting the Home Invasion Film: The Dark Joy of You re Next
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The horror genre deserves major points for not taking itself too seriously. Or, at the very least, for consistently dissecting and subverting the conventions and rules that constitute its many subgenres. The
Scream franchise takes hilariously astute potshots at slasher films.
The Editor is a comedic love letter to the giallo genre.
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I enjoy phishing. There’s something richly satisfying about crafting a fake email that can trick an unsuspecting victim into infecting their company with ransomware, all thanks to a clever arrangement of colour, text weighting, graphics, and misdirection. It’s like a magic trick carried out entirely through correspondence. It’s artistic expression with an immediate payoff … I don’t have to wait for a gallery exhibition to gage the public’s appreciation of my work because I get immediate feedback in the form of compromised PCs and howls of outrage. It’s brilliant fun.
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“Lights Out” began life as a three-minute short film by David F.
Sandberg that was short on such elements as narrative complexity, character
development and memorable dialogue (I don’t recall a single word being spoken) and long on coming up with more big jolts than would seem possible in such a short running time. It got no small degree of attention and
Sandberg was given a chance to expand the short into a full-length feature,
putting it in such esteemed genre company as the original “When a Stranger
Calls” and “The Babadook.” In the cases of those works, the filmmakers found