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Old 01-20-2012, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by crabapple View Post
I'll tell ya--I would like to see an infusion of "other material, themes and tones" in horror. The typical horror flick sort of swims in its own gruesome obsessiveness and exists playing variations of one note. Too much "pure horror" and not much real humor and character or even story depth. Too much primal fear and a focus on that as the "only topic of horror."

I would like to see other material, organic stuff, that breaks that up and loosens up the feel of the material.
Absolutely, crabby. All horror needs to be rooted in something in order to transcend the mere genre. There's an interesting book by David Skal called The Monster Show, and his main thesis states that times of great social, cultural, and/or political turmoil are shortly followed by a revolution in horror films; these waves are reactions. So given the chaos we're living in now, perhaps we're due for a new golden age of horror.
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