Contributing Editor Marcus Nicholls applies the ideas of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki to a comparison of Western and Eastern horror cinema.
“Sometimes I think my characters live ready-made in my psyche, the way Jung described our personality — that it is made up of hundreds of people, like a huge theatre.” Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month, talks to Marcus Nicholls.
Film Critic Marcus Nicholls applies Baudelaire’s principles of art criticism to F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror and Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu, the Vampyr.
Film Critic Marcus Nicholls suggests that we take a look at film, and Gus van Sant’s Last Days in particular, through Baudelaire’s view of art criticism.
What do Pixar animation and Freud have in common? Quite a lot — just read Film Critic Marcus Nicholls’ essay and find out.
by Marcus Nicholls
Film Critic Marcus Nicholls writes about the manifestation of Winter Gothic in John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In and its film adaptation.