Mental health facilities, colloquially known as asylums, have long been a trope in horror, whether people are sneaking into closed facilities after dark, living in them, or interacting with them in some other way. It is not just the asylum itself that is horrifying, but also its inmates, those who stalk the halls and once […]
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The Thrill, the Horror, the Mystery of Resource Scarcity
I’ve been watching a lot of James Bond lately, as one does, and I was struck the other day by a marked shift between two different films; Goldfinger (1964) and Quantum of Solace (2008). Both films revolve around master villains who are attempting to gain control of a key resource for economic gain and political […]