Conor Bateman has sliced clips from (mainly American) horror films in which a cinema audience is slain schlockily in a theatre – an overlooked, self-reflexive trope across the genre. In each sequence, the screen is masked out to reveal the prior sequence: each audience is successively watching the killings that we, the actual audience, have just seen. The onscreen audience never leaves the theatre – there’s nowhere else in this world beyond the cinema, and the scenes of entrapment and containment play out in similarly-framed spaces of chaos (what if what we watched onscreen leaked out?). Without a scrap of ideology-addled earnestness, the tone moves from playful to inevitable. Like a game, it all loops together in an oddly fun, self-sustaining spiral of dramatic irony.
Get Over It
Comedy, Romance
5.6
WALL·E
Animation, Family, Science Fiction
8.1
Interstellar
Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
8.4
Titanic
Drama, Romance
7.9
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Adventure, Fantasy, Action
7.4
The Martian
Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction
7.7
Beetlejuice
Fantasy, Comedy
7.4
Inside Out
Animation, Family, Adventure, Drama, Comedy
7.9
Thor
Adventure, Fantasy, Action
6.8
Shutter Island
Drama, Thriller, Mystery
8.2
American Psycho
Thriller, Drama, Crime
7.4
Back to the Future
Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
8.3
The Sixth Sense
Mystery, Thriller, Drama
8.0
Inception
Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
8.4
The Wave
Drama, Thriller
7.5
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Comedy, Drama
8.0
The Prestige
Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction
8.2
The Fifth Element
Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
7.6
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Action, Adventure
7.6
Star Wars
Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
8.2