(And if one wanted to dismiss these thoughts, one could point to the old, old pedigree of horror in popular culture, or even "high culture." It was the very radical [for her time] Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley who wrote "Frankenstein," after all.)
(And if one wanted to dismiss these thoughts, one could point to the old, old pedigree of horror in popular culture, or even "high culture." It was the very radical [for her time] Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley who wrote "Frankenstein," after all.)
Yes and, Stephen King is famously liberal. But horror in the arts aims for a laugh, ultimately -- the shudder followed by "Ha! Damn thing got me good!" In other words, no one loves Lovecraft because Cthulhu might be real -- they love him for making it so easy to pretend for 10 pages. Whereas the Havoc show builds horror by showing real fatalities, and though there might be high comedy in its posing as "educational," Havoc is not really funny like, say, Rosemary's Baby, or sexy like Carmilla, or thinky like Frankenstein. It presents death, but doesn't really synthesize that into catharsis. I feel like I am tenting my fingers now I'll shut the fuck up.
(And if one wanted to dismiss these thoughts, one could point to the old, old pedigree of horror in popular culture, or even "high culture." It was the very radical [for her time] Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley who wrote "Frankenstein," after all.)
Yes and, Stephen King is famously liberal. But horror in the arts aims for a laugh, ultimately -- the shudder followed by "Ha! Damn thing got me good!" In other words, no one loves Lovecraft because Cthulhu might be real -- they love him for making it so easy to pretend for 10 pages. Whereas the Havoc show builds horror by showing real fatalities, and though there might be high comedy in its posing as "educational," Havoc is not really funny like, say, Rosemary's Baby, or sexy like Carmilla, or thinky like Frankenstein. It presents death, but doesn't really synthesize that into catharsis. I feel like I am tenting my fingers now I'll shut the fuck up.