I think it's the tether-less feeling of losing one's mind.
|
|
FEW things are more haunting than the prospect of losing one's mind.
|
|
I'll raise a glass tonight to the equivalency of moving forward in time to losing one's mind.
|
|
These are all pervasive tropes in the genre—the terror of losing one's mind, the hysterical woman, the traditional ghost story, the mysterious relative's death setting off supernatural events.
|
|
It takes the immediate threat of being shot or mauled or impaled and compounds it with the threat of losing one's mind in the jungle, or under a menacing ceiling fan in Saigon.
|
|
"Combined use with alcohol and use within risky or unfamiliar settings increase the risks of harm most commonly accidental injury, panic and short-lived confusion, disorientation, and fears of losing one's mind," Winstock told the Guardian.
|
|
Even when works are not explicitly based on his stories, his themes—forbidden knowledge, cosmic entities in dimensions beyond, losing one's mind to powerful forces out of human perception, nightmarish creatures living beneath the surface of our world—are everywhere.
|
|
Herzog's diaries during the making of Fitzcarraldo were published as Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo. Mark Harris of The New York Times wrote in his review: "The movie and its making are both fables of daft aspiration, investigations of the blurry border between having a dream and losing one's mind." His treatment of subjects has been characterized as Wagnerian in its scope. The plot of Fitzcarraldo is based on the building of an opera house and his later film Invincible (2001) touches on the character of Siegfried.
|
|
In 2014, Stamm was hired by Artistic Metropol to portray Ted, the vampire hunter and leading character of Victor Matellano's 2015 film Vampyres, a re-make of the 1970s cult film Vampyres, with English actress Caroline Munro. In the comedy Rey gitano (“Gipsy King”), by Goya Award-winning Juanma Bajo Ulloa, he played the German minister advisor L. Brücken; in the home eviction drama Cerca de tu casa ("Near your home"), directed by Eduard Cortés, he played the rich home owner Günther, and in the comedy Perdiendo el Norte (“Losing the North”, which in Spanish also means 'losing one's mind'), by Nacho G. Velilla, about two unemployed Spanish friends, an economist and a scientist, who try their luck in Germany, he played an investigator who puts his language skills on the stand. Also that year, he appeared on the Spanish television series Cuéntame cómo pasó (“Tell me how it happened”; TVE), in its 16th season, as Manuel, as well as in the series Sin identidad(“Without Identity”; Antena3).
|
|