The incisor that slowly falls from the hockey player’s mouth, just after his blood forms Pollack-like droplets on the ice, casts Goon as a film that celebrates controlled violence. Puccini’s “Diecimile anni al nostro Imperatore” accompanies this scene, as do cheers from the crowd and smiles on the face of the enforcer who protected his team’s marquee […]
In 1996, Drew Barrymore was trapped in her home, voyeurized through her many floor to ceiling windows, eventually stabbed through the heart, gutted groin to sternum, and hung from a tree with her entrails on display for her mother and father, who happened to come home shortly after. Thus began a fresh imagining in the horror genre […]