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Tag: Artistic Obsession

Stories about artists consumed by the work are the arts examining their own pathology. This tag collects reviews of films and fiction about artistic obsession: perfectionism, sacrifice, and the line where devotion becomes damage.

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The Fly (1986)

May 19, 2026

David Cronenberg's body horror about a scientist whose teleportation experiment merges his DNA with a housefly. The Fly is David Cronenberg's 1986 American body-horror film, a substantial remake of the 1958 Kurt Neumann original, depicting a scientist whose teleportation experiment…

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Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

May 19, 2026

James Whale's sequel where the resurrected creature demands a mate, leading the doctor back to his laboratory. Bride of Frankenstein is James Whale's 1935 American horror film, sequel to his 1931 Frankenstein, depicting the resurrected Monster's demand that Dr. Henry…

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Frankenstein (1931)

May 19, 2026

Boris Karloff plays the creature stitched together from corpses and animated by a scientist who quickly loses control of his creation. Frankenstein is James Whale's 1931 American horror film adapted from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel and the 1927 Peggy Webling…

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Misery (1990)

May 19, 2026

Misery is Rob Reiner's 1990 American psychological-thriller film adapted from Stephen King's 1987 novel, depicting a romance novelist who crashes his car in a Colorado snowstorm and is rescued by his self-described number-one fan, who imprisons him in her isolated…

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Free Solo (2018)

May 19, 2026

Camera operators with PTSD from filming. The film was produced by National Geographic Documentary Films on a budget of approximately two million dollars and grossed approximately twenty-eight million dollars worldwide, winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

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