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Blood, Guts and Brains!
In praise of horror as a genre
There's a strange assumption floating around out there that fans of the horror genre are a bunch of ghoulish sadomasochists who thrill to the sight of gushing blood.
But there's so much more to us than that. Immaturity is closely associated with the terror mode of storytelling, and the avalanche of crappy scare flicks that Hollywood churns out like shavings from a wood carver's knife doesn't help our case. But I still lay the lion's share of blame on the shoulders of the critics who refuse to look any deeper into the world of artistic fright mongering than the latest Saw film.
But there's so much more to us than that. Immaturity is closely associated with the terror mode of storytelling, and the avalanche of crappy scare flicks that Hollywood churns out like shavings from a wood carver's knife doesn't help our case. But I still lay the lion's share of blame on the shoulders of the critics who refuse to look any deeper into the world of artistic fright mongering than the latest Saw film.
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