Existence is often a narrowing corridor where the only way out is through the friction of the self. In Shinya Tsukamoto’s 2005 visceral masterpiece Haze, a man wakes up in a concrete crawlspace so tight he can barely breathe. He has no memory of how he arrived. He is surrounded by cold, unyielding walls and…
Existence is often a forced competition where the rules are broadcast from an unknown source. In the 2013 sci-fi thriller The Human Race, eighty strangers are ripped from their daily lives and deposited onto a mysterious, closed-circuit track. A voice in their heads—a direct-brain Signal—delivers the prime directive: “If you are lapped, you die. If…
Power is not held by those who speak, but by the medium that carries the voice. In the 2018 British sci-fi horror Await Further Instructions, a family wakes up on Christmas morning to find their house sealed in a mysterious black substance. Their only link to the outside world is the television, which broadcasts a…
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