TheHaughtyCulturist

thehaughtyculturist explores how and why we tell stories on page and screen, and is written by Ruth Bushi | About

A family face up to the prospect of Armageddon – but should they believe everything they hear?

Metaphor and transformation in David Cronenberg’s The Fly

A photographer clicks on to the perfect murder, only to be undone by his own ‘negative reaction’

Making sense of fun-size houses and larger-than-life horror in Hereditary

Unpacking meaning, mental illness and story signposts in Scorsese’s Shutter Island

For a story about a disembowelling serial killer, The Pale Blue Eye is astonishingly slow