Sex and sanguination: decoding Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Making sense of the sizzling sexuality of Bram Stoker’s Dracula
1990s
1990s
Fight Club (1999) explained: vandals with dirty faces
Making sense of Fight Club’s twisted narrative and duplicated identities
Flatliners (1990) explained: hell and hallucination
How Flatliners draws on our fears of hell and isolation to weave its Gothic-inspired horror
The Lost World (1997): good guys, bad guys and dinosaurs
The Lost World establishes Ian Malcolm as a flawed father – and gives him a dinosaur double
Gattaca (1997) explained: luck, ladders and the long con
A flawed man challenges the science of discrimination, but is he hero or sociopath?
Falling Down (1993) explained: the terminal velocity of hardship
Falling Down’s black / bleak comedy of modern life and city living