The Monster — The Monster(Blu Ray)

The Monster is a late 1970s Italian film that blends media satire, Gallio and dark humour. It centres on a bottom-of-the-rung journalist who starts getting letters from a killer, and he very much takes advantage of the situation. The film very much skates between parody and seriousness, and at points becomes decidedly tonally unbalanced- though it’s certainly original/ distinctive picture. Here from Radiance- both in the UK and the US- taking in a new 2k scan of the picture, a commentary track from giallo experts, and a mix of new/ archive extras.

I Have Always Been Here Before

The Hauntological Film

“Cinema plus psychoanalysis equals the science of ghosts.”—Jacques DerridaAlthough the field of hauntology emerged from philosophy, the social sciences, and literary criticism, its progenitor, critical theorist Jacque Derrida, seemed most comfortable using cinema to explain and broaden the ontological and epistemological boundaries of his concept. For Derrida, movie-making was not only an aesthetic experience but also a shared exorcism, a synergetic séance, “the art of allowing ghosts to come back.”