Mom and Dad (2018)
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A teenage girl and her little brother try to survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of...
The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980
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A vital counter-interpretation of madness in women, showing how it is often a consequence of, rather...
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The Fever
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Deenie, Gabby and Lise are best friends - a tight girl-unit negotiating their way through the...
Suswatibasu (1702 KP) rated Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses (2015) in Movies
Oct 25, 2017 (Updated Oct 25, 2017)
In the heart of Maori culture, lies the belief of Makatu, a curse or demon, that can allegedly be 'exorcised'. A poor young mother, Janet Moses, who either had mental health issues or was seemingly depressed, was confronted by her large family attempting to help her. Unfortunately their misguided deeply held beliefs included holding her down and plying water into her for days on end in a bid to rid her of a demon. And while they believed they they were assisting her, she eventually died after five days.
And of course a court case ensued about culpability. A truly terrible instance of dogmatic beliefs, cabin fever, and hysteria.
The Hunt (2012)
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Lucas, a respected kindergarten teacher in a close-knit Danish community, is falsely accused of...
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The Super Mates Podcast
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The podcast where a certified comic/sci-fi/fantasy geek actually gets his wife to co-host a show...
David McK (3485 KP) rated 2012 (2009) in Movies
Apr 6, 2021
That's now 12 years ago, and 3 years before the setting of this big-budget disaster movie.
2012 is also when the Aztec calendar 'ended', leading to lots of conspiracy theories and some hysteria around the time that the world would end.
Which is what this movie is about: cue lots of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and the obligatory family-reconnecting that is de rigeur for this type of movie!
Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg: Die Alchemisten
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Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg: Die Alchemisten introduces nightmares, obsession, and hysteria to...
Suswatibasu (1702 KP) rated The Crucible in Books
Oct 10, 2017 (Updated Oct 11, 2017)
The play explores paranoia, the power of superstition and mass hysteria. It shows the dangers of using a scapegoat to fix problems in society. Classed as one of the great American plays along with the likes of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the US government ostracised people for being communists.
Many prominent people became victims of the Red Scare, Arthur Miller was one of many people who came to the attention of the House Un-American Activities Committee. In his play The Crucible Miller drew comparisons with the Red Scare and the witch trials of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts.
Truly an awe-inspiring and essential read.