Z0MB0Y@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 2/8/00 7:42:24 PM Pacific
Standard Time,
>
btoomey@javanet.com writes:
>
> << But the goals of horror are completely
different from the goals of
> hardboiled. Hardboiled is grounded in a skeptical,
cynical, unsentimental
> view of the world.
> Horror is the polar opposite -- romantic,
sentimental, emotional. >>
>
> You're talking about gothic horror only. I can't
think of any movie less
> romantic or sentimental than THE TEXAS CHAINSAW
MASSACRE, for instance.
> Cronnenberg, when he's hitting on all cylinders, is
very cynical and
> cerebral. He is horrified with the world, or aspects
of it, and wants to pass
> that horror along to the audience. Horror, as an
emotion, comes from a sense
> of alienation, which is an extreme form of
cynicism.
Actually, I was talking about literary horror, not movie
horror. In the classical sense, the literary horror story
seeks to create fear in the audience. Fear is not a cynical
emotion.
You're right about Cronenberg. But THE TEXAS CHAINSAW
MASSACRE, a movie I admire, is quite remantic and sentimental
in its view of its warped family of freaks, like a twisted
version of the Waltons.
BobT
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