from Cinegraphic.net:

The Horror of Optical Illusions

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URL: https://www.cinegraphic.net/article.php?story=20131122084714883


Bright Lights Film Journal no 82 has my new article: The Horror of Origins in Ron Honthaner's The House on Skull Mountain examines the emergent form of a death's head that appears graphically on screen in a way that is both inherently a part of the action (emergent from the composition itself) and a presentation of what is not (cannot be) shown on screen: Lorena's thoughts — her fear, signified by the voodoo drums, becoming manifest as the superimposed skull.