An essay by me about scary movies can be found here. And also here. In this essay, I compare how I reacted to scary movies as a kid, and also how I reacted to World War II and Holocaust related films.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
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Great essay, Danusha.
ReplyDeleteI never took this genre seriously—never saw a reason to—but your essay made me rethink that.
The underlying theme of child abuse in “The Haunting” is not something I noticed when I watched that movie many years ago. It makes sense now, and what better way to wrestle with child abuse than through the horror film genre?
(I read somewhere that Roman Polanski used the filming of “Macbeth” as a way to cope with the hideous murder of his wife. His “Macbeth” is not, of course, a horror film, but it has elements of that genre in its scenes of violence. I wonder if other directors turned to that genre in order to probe painful themes.