In a short review of the new Chinese movie 1428, a reference to a macabre symbol of a massive cover-up: in 2009, the foundations of a concrete plant in Sichuan “ruptured as a result of the fermentation of thousands of corpses buried beneath it.”
Stephen Spielberg’s movie Poltergeist turns on a similar if more abstract return of the repressed: the churning “spirits” of slaughtered Native Americans buried under a modern day suburban housing development.