I feel sorry for the original poster of the question for getting such sub par answers, this feels at best like random quotation jeopardy. Godard? Ah, say no more. Deleuze, nudge, nudge. So Godard par Godard is the ultimate answer to all things horror, viz horror vacui?
The French have always avoided ugliness, in film as well as many other fields of pop culture (certainly in contemporary music), except for Les Yeux Sans Visage maybe and a handful of others, there isnīt much worth mentioning. Thereīs shamefully little on horror in the 60īs Cahiers on Horror, because that genre blossomed in the 70s and 80s, most notably in Italy, Spain, Canada and the US. Bad luck.
In my juvenile arrogance, Iīd better avoid too scathing comments on Gojira the ultimate personification of war trauma, the tragic contradictory image of something painful and loved that only the horror genre can create, being called "fascist" while it took the US media ten years to print the first images of victims of the nuclear holocaust.
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