Oct 11, 2020
Final word on horror, I promise, but I think great horror of any genre hits you in the hindbrain. You can ask yourself post-facto why something works, talk out the logic and its loopholes, but the initial flush of terror? the flinch, the finger digging into your limbic system/guts? that’s what horror is. And no matter how you frame it, discuss it or dissect it, that first flush of shock, pleasure, or revulsion endures.
#I have feelings about families and so hill house's initial ''family is a trap you can't escape but you love them''' worked amazingly;#monsterland's ''you love someone so much you'll cling to their rotting corpse and fading ghost in the name of your love''#an attack#horror finds your soft places and#digs in#etc.#the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind
