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Shane Ryan's Dacryphilia and Hematolagnia

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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 g...