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Watching Stuff With Our Brains Turned On

Tag: psychology

  • Oculus (2013): A Study in Perception and Dread

    Oculus (2013): A Study in Perception and Dread

    I love a good psychological horror film about as much as I love a good ghost story. In both those sub-genres, you have some question as to the actual nature of the events going on. When done right, it’s the film version of print’s “unreliable narrator” technique. It leaves the characters–and the audience–wondering, at least […]

  • House: Not the Doctor Show, the Haunted Kind

    House: Not the Doctor Show, the Haunted Kind

    When I first saw House, around the time it came out on home video or HBO in the late 80s, I don’t remember thinking of it as a horror-comedy. Part of the reason for that is that I saw House II first which is more of a comedy with horror elements in it. Putting the two side […]