Death Machine (1994)
Figures
Form & technique
- The film's constant visual and narrative references to other sci-fi films → The Pastiche Playbook
- The film's overall visual style: cluttered, dark, industrial, and grimy → Haptic Visuality
Tropes
- The Chaank Corporation's corporate culture and headquarters → The Commodity Fetish
- The character arc and actions of Hayden Cale
- The creator-creation relationship between Jack Dante and the Warbeast → The Abject
Films most connected to Death Machine
- Trainspotting (1996) — via The Commodity Fetish, The Abject, The Pastiche Playbook
- Requiem for a Dream (2000) — via The Commodity Fetish, The Abject, Haptic Visuality
- Gremlins (1984) — via The Commodity Fetish, The Pastiche Playbook
- Napoleon Dynamite (2004) — via The Commodity Fetish, The Pastiche Playbook
- The Shape of Water (2017) — via The Commodity Fetish, The Pastiche Playbook
- Reality Bites (1994) — via The Commodity Fetish, The Pastiche Playbook
- Barton Fink (1991) — via The Commodity Fetish, The Pastiche Playbook
- Django Unchained (2012) — via The Abject, The Pastiche Playbook