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 […]

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. […]

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 […]