Results tagged “cannibalism”

You can look around at various injustices in the world and in a sotto voice decry, "Oh, the humanity!" But what does that really mean? What defines our humanity? Is it social constructs? Is it chemical reactions in our brain the cause us to react to certain situations, images or ideas in a predestined way? What if you are put into a situation where the confines of your own humanity are tested outside the bounds of what you thought was possible? Perhaps you would find that your own humanity differs from those around you and that in the end we are all just animals, attempting to survive in a cruel and graceless world. Hunger, a new film by writer/director Steven Hentges, explores these basic instincts in a dark and brooding new way.

A 25-year-old Tyler man is being accused of murdering, mutilating and sautéing his 21-year-old girlfriend this past Friday. Christopher Lee McCuin told police that God instructed him to kill Jana Shearer.