Sean Collins

Feb 20, 2024 | welcometohellworld.com | Sean Collins |Luke O'Neil

Sean T. Collins joins us again today to write about vampires and class warfare and the great new Sexy Beast series based on Jonathan Glazer's 2000 classic. Collins also recently wrote for Hell World about Glazer's film The Zone of Interest (up for five Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director). Inside the structureThe observed system reactsAs always I'd appreciate it if you helped me pay our great contributors with a subscription. Thanks for thinking about doing that buddy.

Jan 19, 2024 | welcometohellworld.com | Sean Collins |Luke O'Neil

For today's main feature Sean T. Collins returns to write about the "surveillance cinema" of The Curse, The Zone of Interest, Skinamarink and more. "Surveillance cinema subjects its characters to observation so ostentatious we feel it like a physical presence, like an entity; the observed system reacts in similarly extreme fashion, with the shattering of reality itself."Collins recently wrote for Hell World about Godzilla Minus One.

Dec 19, 2023 | welcometohellworld.com | Sean Collins |Luke O'Neil

(This piece was originally for paid subscribers only, but I'm opening it up for today. Please consider subscribing for free or with a paid subscription to help pay our great contributors.)by Sean T. Collins“Of all my childhood obsessions, I think about Godzilla the least. Which makes me sad, because I loved him so much you guys.

Nov 13, 2023 | bloodknife.com | Josh Lewis |Sean Collins |Cian Tsang

by Josh LewisOne of the major drivers of the undying affection for low-budget and independent genre/exploitation cinema is its historical value as a space for artists on the margins of society to express themselves.

Nov 11, 2023 | bloodknife.com | Sean Collins |Cian Tsang |Lindsay Wallace

by Sean T. CollinsSpectacle is the language through which art communicates when the vocabulary of the everyday fails us. Fantastic fiction, an inherent trafficker in the unreal, says as much through spectacle as any art form this side of musical theater, in which excesses of emotion transcend dialogue and emerge through the eruption of song and dance.