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Post by templar on Jun 26, 2015 13:51:58 GMT
The glut of visual horror has jaded us. That visceral fear of the less is more school is long gone.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Jun 28, 2015 9:10:57 GMT
Well, we still have David Lynch, and individual films such as The Casebook of Eddie Brewer and The Borderlands. All is not lost! And it's worth remembering that restrained suggestive horror often resurfaces as a reaction to what someone (I think of Val Lewton) regards as too much explicitness.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 28, 2015 16:06:38 GMT
The glut of visual horror has jaded us. That visceral fear of the less is more school is long gone. Surely that accusation has been leveled at supernatural fiction since the days of Monk Lewis, if not long before? In my experience, the genre continues to accommodate the explicit and the subtle, the outrageous and the poignant, same as it always has. Or are you talking specifically about film?
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Post by pulphack on Jun 29, 2015 8:33:47 GMT
Nicely put, Dem. Of course there's still room, as different things frighten different people, and most of the criticism is down to moaning about things being too lurid, not like they were in my day, etc. The OP is the writer's only one so far - care to expand on your argument? Why do you feel this is the case?
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Post by Dr Strange on Jun 29, 2015 10:30:15 GMT
I agree with all the replies so far - there is plenty of "quiet horror" out there, in books and films. I sometimes think that when people say "they don't make 'em like the used to" what they are really saying is "I am too old and lazy to go looking for anything new".
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Post by ramseycampbell on Jun 29, 2015 11:23:02 GMT
Funnily enough - if this isn't too personal or self-serving - I often find when I do a reading to a mainstream audience that folk tell me they didn't think that kind of horror was being written any more (which lets me recommend other contemporary writers, if I haven't already).
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 29, 2015 16:38:01 GMT
I hate explicit horror. The authors of such dreck should be disemboweled and balloon animals made out of their entrails.
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Post by pulphack on Jun 29, 2015 18:13:35 GMT
I think I've got a book where someone does that...
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 29, 2015 18:26:19 GMT
That is exactly the kind of thing I am talking about.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Jun 29, 2015 20:50:17 GMT
I think I've got a book where someone does that... But it's not as good as the film....
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Post by bluetomb on Jun 30, 2015 12:26:58 GMT
Proportionally, I wonder if graphic horror is really more prevalent than it was in the past? I mean, if you take a properly broad view of the genre. Or is it it just that it's become a lot more graphic and mainstream/accessible? It's often said that things aren't what they were, but I don't exactly recall Frankenstein, or Wuthering Heights or any of the Poe biggies being exactly models of taste and restraint, or a good half or more of the traditionally claimed cinematic classics.
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