The New Horizon of Cinema: The Transformation of Film Art in the Age of Technological Determinism

By the Filmoctopus Team When the Lumière Brothers first presented The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1895), legend has it that the audience ran out of the theater in terror. The technology of that day was such a powerful representation of reality that human perception struggled to process it. Today, more than 130 […]

A Guide to Horror and Sci-Fi Cinema: The Origins and Evolution of Genres

Here is the English translation of the text, maintaining the original structure, tone, and formatting. A Guide to Horror and Sci-Fi Cinema: The Origins and Evolution of Genres 1. Introduction: Why Is Understanding Film Genres Important? Welcome to the world of cinema! If you are a spectator captivated by the magic of films and curious […]

The Ideological Transformation of Shark Movies

The Birth of Horror When horror first seeped into literature as a distinct mode, we’re roughly at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is published in 1818, and Dr. John Polidori’s The Vampyre follows in 1819. Both texts are almost immediately dragged onto the stage via theatrical adaptations. […]

mother! – What Does Its Ideological Ground Really Offer the Viewer?

Darren Aronofsky’s baroque monster of a film has already inspired a wave of interpretations. The overt metaphors, the Bible-grade allegories everyone can now recognize at a glance, and that infamous final act make it very tempting to put the film under the microscope again and again. Classic tools of film analysis certainly “fit” the narrative. […]

The Ordeal of the Hero in Posthuman Narratives

When you look at Hollywood storytelling, it’s almost banal to notice that every hero, without exception, is sentenced to serious suffering. From Aristotelian plot structures all the way to today’s blockbusters, pain is the glue that sticks us to the protagonist. Through that ordeal we move closer to the hero, build an intimate identification, and […]

David’s Path

“The spirit that I have seenMay be a devil; and the devil hath powerT’assume a pleasing shape…”— Hamlet Since 1979, the Alien franchise has been a benchmark for science fiction and horror. After a rather embarrassing “degeneration” in the 1990s, it was re-ennobled by Ridley Scott himself, who returned to tell the unknown backstory of […]

The Ideological Unfolding of Cannibalism

A razor slicing through an eyeball, pliers yanking out perfectly white teeth, that famous supermarket-brand salami.Meat, blood, bone. If it’s cooked, we’re fine; if it’s raw, suddenly it’s “disgusting”. And then there are the people who like their steak still bleeding, happily paying fifty dollars a portion. There’s something oddly satisfying about those who drink […]

This space is dedicated to thinking seriously about cinema and storytelling at a time when the future of the medium feels unstable. You’ll find theory-driven essays, close readings of films, and reflections from my own practice as a filmmaker and researcher. If you’re more interested in how stories work than which platform they’re on, you’re […]