Shane Ryan's Dacryphilia and Hematolagnia

Shane Ryan's Dacryphilia and Hematolagnia


Filmmaker Shane Ryan's Dacryphilia and Hematolagnia



French playwright, mystic, and madman Artaud argued 
theater should leave realism, and return to a new 
spectacle of ritual, magic, and the heart of man.  I 
recalled reading that watching filmmaker Shane Ryan's 
new cinema ritual of blood, spectacle, and magic called 
Dacryphilia and Hematolagnia.



It starts off with images of murder, blood, and a girl in 
the dying throes of trauma.  Shane does this silently, and 
lets the spectacle and imagery seep into your 
subconscious like the drifting nightmare.  
Blood and Gore are both trophies of horror and sensual 
mask of madness. A shirtless and ravaged nameless 
man is helpless before the eerie vicious attack from a 
woman with supernatural evil.




Chapter 2 entitled her death then goes to the woman 
walking in a forest of woe to a nameless fate.  I was 
blown away by the experience of his film. Definitely 
a must see for horror and cinema fans.  

Watching this reminded me of two things.  A young 
Clive Barker and his experimental film The Forbidden 
where you are in this immersive nightmare realm, 
and Kenneth Anger's magic ritual as cinema Rabbit 
Moon where the film itself is a ritual and a catharsis.


Clive Barker directing the Forbidden
Kenneth Anger's cinema as magic ritual Rabbit Moon


Shane's film Dacryphilia and Hematolagnia is definitely 
a journey you need to take.  Take a bite, taste the blood, 
and fly inward in the nameless forest.

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