Showbiz: Amateur Adventures in Film Studies

We do a bit of noticing of urban decay and Cyber Punk in John Carpenter's delightful Escape from New York and Ridley Scott's ground breaking Blade Runner.

We do a bit of noticing of SciFi Horror, secret robots, and flamethrowers with Alien directed by Ridley Scott and The Thing directed by John Carpenter.

We do a bit of learning about the elements of the Science Fiction genre in our third lesson...

We do a bit of noticing of psychological horror and the importance of a good title in Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Don't Look Now directed by Nicolas Roeg.

We do a bit of noticing of the origins of the Slasher genre with Black Christmas directed by Bob Clark and Texas Chainsaw Massacre directed by Tobe Hooper.

We do a bit of noticing of Christmas magic (?) and that George Bailey is kinda an entitled jerk-face in It's a Wonderful Life.

We do a bit of noticing of alien nutrition, sexy vampires, and Art House Horror in Under the Skin directed by Jonathan Glazer and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night directed by Ana Lily Amirpour.

We do a bit of noticing of body horror in The Fly directed by David Cronenberg and Titane directed by Julia Ducournau.

We did a bit of noticing of the elements of supernatural horror in Carrie and Ringu.