Tag: Possessor
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31 DAYS OF HORROR #23: Dan Martin on AUDITION (1999)
Spoilers From his effects work in recent genre mega-hits Host, Censor and Possessor, to co-hosting the Arrow Video Podcast, Dan Martin knows his horror. Here he unpacks his first encounter with one of the most shocking films in the genre’s history… It was the year 2000 and I’d been properly bitten by the J-Horror bug.…
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ANALYSIS: “It makes her do certain things. Predator things”: Gender and Violence in POSSESSOR (2020)
Spoilers In the opening moments of Possessor – Brandon Cronenberg’s long awaited sophomore body horror – a woman walks into an upper-class soirée and brutally murders a man with a knife, stabbing him repeatedly in the throat and torso until the floor runs red with gore. It soon becomes apparent that this woman is quite…
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INTERVIEW: Dan Martin, Effects Artist, POSSESSOR
The teachers were asking ‘What do you want to do when you’re older?’ and I said ‘I want to make monsters for film’. And that was it. I wasn’t going to be anything else. Dan Martin has made his name in blood. Not literally you understand, but as the effects artist behind The Human Centipede…
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