Quoting Stephan Pickering <[log in to unmask]>:
> The Halloween films, the Elm Street
> protonazi, the utter plotless stupidity of Jaws, Taken, Chainsaw, etc., need
> no elucidation. Only H.R. Giger's Alien (with its biomechanical-like insects)
> and Blade Runner (not really a "horror" film) rise above the eugenicist
> templates and protonazisms of what have been mentioned here. One need only
> look through Starlog, Fangoria, &c. to get a sense of the anti-intellectual,
> racialist, anti-women currents controlling "horror" film as a genre. And it
fills one with profound sadness, to think that James Whale's two Frankenstein
films -- withtheir wonderful subtle conjurations of transgendering and masterful
> artistry-- are forgotten.
This is an excellent delineation, between thoughtful films that instil fear and
mindless "horror" that instils mind-numbing wank. Thank you.
Andrew
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