I love horror movies, so I don't become become pleased when I hear people knocking the genre I hold so dear to my heart. It seems to me that many have the wrong conception of horror-- it's not all about Freddy Kruger (He's just a character from a franchise belonging to a sub-genre of a larger genre. He and his films do not represent all of horror), it's not all about violence and gore (Where was the gratuitous blood in Nosferatu, Onibaba or The Innocents?) and it's not all about attractive and stupid teenagers being chased by a madman (Don't even get me started on this one. The sheer number of horror films that lack this theme is too high for my mind to compute.). Horror films and their themes vary in what they are accomplish, and I believe that is the beauty of the genre. The films can shock us, scare us, make us cry, make us laugh and change our way of thinking.
Yet many still regard horror as a trashy type of art. Why do you think this is?
2007-02-12
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