Arthouse & Classics
Tropical Lolita edition
QOTD
Favorite Gothic film(s)?
Following a long tradition of Romantic art and literature, phantasmagoric theatre, melodrama, and Expressionism, gothic films have a recognisable mise-en-scène based around archetypal settings and characters, familiar visual signifiers and narrative codes. The style is Otranto-esque and uncanny, and can be either period or contemporary. There are old dark houses, sublime castles, dungeons, graveyards and secret passages. Settings are invariably cobweb-strewn and secluded, and there is fog everywhere. Action takes place in the shadows, and soft lighting maintains misty moonlight while under-lighting distorts features. Like gothic literature, competing frames of rational and irrational explanation are often deployed to generate tension and unease. (...)