Hi Herbert
Sorry for this late contribution - just catching up on my email backlog.
>Thanks for this suggestion. Horror and television is another
>interesting topic. feel alone watching it - I wonder if we ever
>really feel alone in tv-series?
I'd like to mention the 1980 British science fiction series Sapphire
and Steel with Joanna Lumley and David McCallum playing the main
characters - I found this generated some really bleak moments of
aloneness - particularly the end of the series which personally gave
me a very real moment of horror (not terror).
You also mention in an earlier post: 'horror at the edge of
perception'. There is plenty of this in S&S as well.
This series also played with notions of representation in extremely
creative ways.
The sf series The Invaders with Roy Thinnes also has a main character
who is very much on his own in the world - but I find that this
series doesn't generate the same sense of horror as Sapphire and
Steel - although the clear intention of the series is horror.
The Chris Carter series Millenium also has some moments of horror in
these terms.
On the film front two film endings I experienced as horrific were the
ending of Terry Gilliam's Brazil (that song still sends shivers down
my spine whenever I hear it) and the end of The Human Condition. What
can be more alone than complete removal from the world and shared
social meaning via descent into madness?
--
regards
Clare
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