Perceptual insecurity and multisensory in contemporary nordic horror
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Cinema, Film analysis, Nordic horror, MultisensoryAbstract
This article analyzes three Nordic horror feature films – Swedish Border, by Ali Abbasi (2018), Icelandic Lamb, by Valdimar Jóhannsson (2021), and Norwegian The Innocents, by Eskil Vogt (2021) – highlighting trends of contemporary cinema characterized by the insertion of elements of fantastic and/or supernatural imaginary in the construction of imagery and soundscapes that build atmospheres of contemplation and emptiness. The three films formulate a relevant frame of the way horror genre articulates ideas, values and social tensions, following a filmmaker trend to explore the entire sensory surface of the spectator’s body, which makes senses other than vision and hearing central to a new regime of spectatorship.
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