

In this new video essay, filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe delves into the dread-inducing mood and tone of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s modern horror classic Cure, deploying a dizzying range of cinematic references to unravel the film’s eerie magic.

More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
2011

Heart of a Dog
2015

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000

Seduced and Abandoned
2013

Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015

Naqoyqatsi
2002

Room 666
1982

Fuck
2006

Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
2006

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
2013