Runtime
2019-07-23 | 13 minutes
Plot Summary
Conor Bateman has sliced clips from (mainly American) horror films in which a cinema audience is slain schlockily in a theatre – an overlooked, self-reflexive trope across the genre. In each sequence, the screen is masked out to reveal the prior sequence: each audience is successively watching the killings that we, the actual audience, have just seen. The onscreen audience never leaves the theatre – there’s nowhere else in this world beyond the cinema, and the scenes of entrapment and containment play out in similarly-framed spaces of chaos (what if what we watched onscreen leaked out?). Without a scrap of ideology-addled earnestness, the tone moves from playful to inevitable. Like a game, it all loops together in an oddly fun, self-sustaining spiral of dramatic irony.
Cast
Recommendations
-
Get Over It
-
Three Floors
-
The Magdalene Sisters
-
Late Spring
-
Tenebre
-
The Last Matinee
-
L'Âge d'or
-
The Hummingbird
-
Satan
-
Marching Band
-
La Chimera
-
Autumn Sonata
-
Juliette in Spring
-
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
-
Pandora's Box
-
Mr. Klein
-
Home for Christmas Day
-
Barbie in Rock 'N Royals
-
Where Is The Friend's House?
-
Goodbye First Love