As Charlie Brooker’s sci-fi anthology series, Black Mirror, has so eloquently demonstrated, our ever-growing dependency on technology is not necessarily a good thing. Our relationship with tech has the potential for dire consequences as we become even more detached from our humanity. Filmmakers Russell Ketterman and David Bennett (Ryker 2019 …
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The disturbed psyche of psychiatric patients is a topic that has fascinated horror aficionados for decades, inspiring countless psychological thrillers and slashers from Psycho (1960) to Terrifier (2017). Rookie filmmaker David Bennett takes a stab at this subject matter, entering the horror arena with his short entitled Ryker. And, unlike …
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