The Seventh Seal

Inescapable

An essay by: Witney Seibold

        

 The Crusades have ended. A plague is sweeping across the landscape. A knight sits, destitute and detached on a beach. He watches the waves roll by. A hawk passes by overhead. The knight’s cynical page lies on the rocks nearby. The horses rest in the waves. Death appears to the knight. The knight is not ready to go just yet; he doesn’t have any real answers. Death may be a physical apparition, but the presence of God is still up in the air, so to speak. To buy a little more time before his fate is up, the knight challenges Death to a game of chess. If he wins, he will live a long full life. If he loses, Death will take him immediately.

Hellraiser & Hellbound: Hellraiser II

The Pain, The Pleasure: Horror of the Body

An essay by: Witney Seibold

         

Warning: This essay will contain the f-word, references to blood, horrible gore, depraved violence, and enthusiastic sex. 

Fracture

 

Fracture

Film review by: Witney Seibold

 

           

Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) finds his wife Jennifer (Embeth Davitz, looking as good as ever) cheating on him with a policeman (Billy Burke). Ted shoots his wife in the head, forcing her into a coma.

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Film review by: Witney Seibold

           

The film has to explain it to us at least four times during its length, as it’s a little convoluted:

Disturbia

Disturbia

A film review by: Witney Seibold

 

For what is ostensibly a mere teenage retread of “Rear Window,” “Disturbia is a surprisingly taut thriller. The camera doesn’t have the same kind of voyeur’s eye as in “Rear Window,” but director D.J. Caruso (“The Salton Sea,” “Taking Lives”) ups the ante by having the spying take place through a series of digital cameras, walkie-talkies, and cellular telephones. It does more than add an element that the MySpace generation can relate to, it gives us the impression that perhaps absorbing digital information gives us no power to control what we’re seeing.