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![The Fall of the House of Usher | Gloom and decay in Poe’s gothic parable](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/3101874917_96dc754ed5_o.jpg)
23 December, 2023
The Fall of the House of Usher | Gloom and decay in Poe’s gothic parable
The Fall of the House of Usher by E. A. Poe is a tale about decay, paranoia, and mental illness with a strong and enduring legacy.
![Wuthering Heights | When love becomes an obsession](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/thunderclouds-2312794_1920.jpg)
26 October, 2021
Wuthering Heights | When love becomes an obsession
Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Brontë in 1847, tells about the uncontrolled passion between Catherine and Heathcliff.
![Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/pawel-janiak-WtRuYJ2EPMA-unsplash-scaled-e1605553162907.jpg)
10 November, 2020
Tiffany McDaniel’s The summer that melted everything
Thick, shiny, sticky, and sour like cranberry juice, The summer that melted everything possesses a sense of predestination and disaster that goes hand in hand with the lyricism of writing. It’s the end of May when Sal, a 13-year-old boy who claims to be the devil, comes to Breathed.
![Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/Rebecca-Olivier-Fontaine-Cottage.jpg.webp)
25 November, 2020
Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller
Hitchcock’s first American production and only of his films to win the Oscar for Best Picture, Rebecca is the tale of the second Mrs. De Winter.
![Parasite | Defying definition and labels](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/Ki-jung-Kim-So-dam-Park-and-Ki-woo-Park-Woo-sik-Choi-in-Parasite.-Courtesy-of-NEON-CJ-Entertainment-scaled-e1603980823528.jpg.webp)
04 November, 2020
Parasite | Defying definition and labels
With Parasite, Bong Joon Ho constructs a contemporary domestic gothic, a tale of class warfare that implicates all of its characters, and leaves the audience wondering who the title is really describing.
![Disintegration | A journey of purification and reconstruction](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/danny-lines-QlrHRcDj4QE-unsplash-scaled-1.jpg.webp)
09 August, 2021
Disintegration | A journey of purification and reconstruction
Disintegration was The Cure's first commercial peak and marked a return to the introspective Gothic rock style established in the early 1980s.
![Vincent | Tim Burton's First Experiment in Style](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/07/andrew-boersma-PWqZuXAW8Fc-unsplash.jpg.webp)
13 July, 2022
Vincent | Tim Burton's First Experiment in Style
Vincent is the first stop-motion movie by Tim Burton. Produced in 1982, it was never released: it was considered too scary and macabre.
![Last Night in Soho | A glamorous tribute to the swinging 60's](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/Neon-lights-pexels-scaled-1.jpg.webp)
12 January, 2022
Last Night in Soho | A glamorous tribute to the swinging 60's
In Last Night in Soho, Eloise Turner, an odd and naive 21st-century teenager played by Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit), leaves the countryside
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The Triumph of Death and its strong symbolism
Posted on 21 March 2020
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The Allegory of Good and Bad Government has a didactic aim
Posted on 14 March 2020