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MURDERDRONE
MURDERDRONE distills slasher film rules down to their most basic components.
Whether it is the simplicity of the “man in the mask” that drives Day of the Reaper and The Mad Mutilator, the ADD free-form ambition of Devil Story and Twisted Issues or the palpable human anxiety that drives Lunch Meat and Scary Movie, these are amateur films that have latched on to one real, true fear and have made it corporeal. And then they exploit that fear again and again until it is all but meaningless...
The term MURDERDRONE is evocative of repetition...The perpetual rhythm in these films is nightmarish in its own way, but each time a murder or attack occurs, the inevitability of it happening again is both more enticing and more exasperating. Each murder builds upon the last, not just in terms of quantity, but also by eliciting a sense of hopelessness and ultimately, acceptance.
And so strong is our desire to demystify death, that even when we know exactly what’s coming we choose to stick around and watch anyway.
Whether it is the simplicity of the “man in the mask” that drives Day of the Reaper and The Mad Mutilator, the ADD free-form ambition of Devil Story and Twisted Issues or the palpable human anxiety that drives Lunch Meat and Scary Movie, these are amateur films that have latched on to one real, true fear and have made it corporeal. And then they exploit that fear again and again until it is all but meaningless...
The term MURDERDRONE is evocative of repetition...The perpetual rhythm in these films is nightmarish in its own way, but each time a murder or attack occurs, the inevitability of it happening again is both more enticing and more exasperating. Each murder builds upon the last, not just in terms of quantity, but also by eliciting a sense of hopelessness and ultimately, acceptance.
And so strong is our desire to demystify death, that even when we know exactly what’s coming we choose to stick around and watch anyway.
40 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2016
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August 7, 2016
An incredibly satisfying plunge into the messy doom of "murderdrone" slasher cinema, its ritual magick overtones, and the psychosomatic resonance it provides to those willing to receive. I also love that the pages are red.
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