“One reason for [Carrie’s] success in both print and film, I think, lies in this: Carrie’s revenge is something that any student who ever had his gym shorts pulled down in Phys Ed or his glasses thumb-rubbed in study hall could approve of. In Carrie’s destruction of the gym . . . we see a dream revolution of the socially downtrodden.”2
For the Halloween devouring Other in you: Here’s a small sampling of films for inciting you or your other to an orgy of castration and Kali-esque bloodletting…
“I didn’t mean to call you a meatloaf, Jack!” — David (David Naughton), An American Werewolf in London
Boredom never looked so good Psycho boring? What blasphemy! Psycho is unusual for many reasons, but in some ways the most important is the mere fact that it is in black-and-white. By[…]
“You weren’t very nice, but I’m sorry you’re dead”
“We’re drawn to and fascinated by horror because the genre reminds us that we have both outsides and insides, skin and guts, eyes and gray matter, ideas and appetites.”
“How entertaining do you find this?”
Essays · Horror · Writers & Critics
“There are monsters that are born with a form that is half-animal and half-human . . . which are produced by sodomists and atheists who join together, and break out[…]
“What makes The Fury work in the end is the complementary sense that this conflict is part of the film’s very construction, so you can appreciate the audacity of the auto-da-fé.”
Actually, a lot
“We do not realize that ‘normal’ behavior needs to be explained at all.” —Laura Cosmides “Monsters today seem to be everywhere, and they cannot be destroyed. ” —Stephen Prince
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Horror
“The pain is my only reminder that he [Edward] was real.” — Bella (Kristen Stewart)
“We are no longer in an era of vampire stories.” — Jean-Luc Nancy
“Peer pressure is either a boon or a bitch with the power to destroy the world, or save it.”
“The explicit nature of this wave of filmmaking can be interpreted as a riposte to modern cultural sensibilities.”
“The camera has a motor, you just turn it on and walk away” – Andy Warhol
Director Frank Barabont hijacks — and sinks — Stephen King’s powerful allegory of political oppression
Horror · Reviews · SF & Fantasy
“Hillcoat and his crew have taken the book’s hints and modeled their scavenging pair on contemporary images of homeless people, who already, as Hillcoat aptly puts it, are ‘living that apocalyptic world of day-to-day survival on the streets with no money and no food.'”
“It was once the figurehead of a slave ship. That’s where our people come from. From the misery and pain of slavery.” ~ I Walked with a Zombie
