One of the best ventriloquism films I've seen. The wonderful thing about it is how PIN's voice is only validated as being a ventriloquised voice of another body after two thirds of the movie (and a string of suspicious tragedies) have passed.
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Showing posts with label ventriloquism. Show all posts
Saturday, 27 February 2016
PIN (1988)
One of the best ventriloquism films I've seen. The wonderful thing about it is how PIN's voice is only validated as being a ventriloquised voice of another body after two thirds of the movie (and a string of suspicious tragedies) have passed.
Monday, 7 July 2014
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
Dr Phibes, the inverted ventriloquist?
A ventriloquists dummy adopts life through a voice given to it. Dr Phibes cinematic appearance is the morbid inversion of this. The watcher knows that the voice is supposed to come from Dr Phibes, and indeed, knows that it does - but is given no animate correlate to the voice. The voice is half way between the standard talkie formulation (a voice coming from a seen source) and acousmatic (a sound with an unknown source). Dr Phibes grim mask (masking any vitalism) cleaves a horror between the two poles of cinematic vocalic formal norms.
Thursday, 7 March 2013
My 4 voice/horror tropes
Finally got round to posting something about my 4th trope, a-linguistic sounds of transformation. It's all about the grain basically. The trope overview sums up the latter 3.
Friday, 17 August 2012
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