Both Aaron Smuts and Matt Hills have excellent essays in the anthology I co-edited called "Dark Thoughts: Philosophical Reflections on Cinematic Horror" that try to deny Carroll's thesis that having a monster is essential to horror. For both, the space itself (the space ship in Event Horizon, the house in The Haunthing) is what is horrifying.
It is still available on the U.S. Amazon.com site
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
Daniel Shaw
Professor of Philosophy and Film
Lock Haven University
Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy
website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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From: Film-Philosophy Salon on behalf of John Marmysz
Sent: Sun 4/16/2006 5:53 AM
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Subject: Re: bodies/buildings
Here's a "literary" suggestion.
Shirley Jackson's The House on Haunted Hill from the 1950s. The story is such that it is difficult to discern whether the hauntings are actually occuring or are in the mind of the protagonist, who is recuperating from a nervous breakdown. For those into dream analysis, houses in dreams are considered to be symbolic of the dreamer.
Also, the recent popular Japanese films The Grudge, Grudge II, etc. (& the American re-make) deal with a haunted house that is contemporary in design.
Juneko Robinson
East Amherst, New York
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