‘After 1945, discontinuity and loss forced British people to adjust to a new sense of who they were and might yet become. Consciously and unconsciously, horror films zeroed in on the pain and perplexity.’
@malcolmgaskill.bsky.social on the horror classic 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵.
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Eighty years on, Dead of Night stands as an astute meditation on repression and madness. Time, however, has dulled the...
