Flatliners (1990) explained: hell and hallucination
How Flatliners draws on our fears of hell and isolation to weave its Gothic-inspired horror
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The Omen (1976) and horror’s malevolent mirror
How The Omen uses inversions to unsettle us – and why that makes for effective horror
The Witch (2015) explained: the horrors of true history
A pioneer family is banished to the wilderness – and falls prey to witchcraft
The Mosquito Coast (1986): the paradise delusion
An eccentric inventor flees the rat-race but carries his problems to paradise
Spotlight (2015) explained: a conspiracy of silence
Writing the wrongs: investigative journalists clash with the church in true story, Spotlight
The Matrix (1999): better than life?
A computer hacker wakes up to reality – but is the Matrix just another lucid dream?