![]() ![]() ![]() He does this in the most inescapable way there is… in their dreams. A crazed psycho killer takes revenge on the children of the men and women who had hunted him down and killed him. “Jennifer,” she said with exasperation, “This isn’t for ladies.” This time, though, I considered what she meant. A few years later, she came into my room to put away some newly washed clothes and found me watching A Nightmare on Elm Street. It’s not for ladies.” However, she was too exhausted to care any further and continued with whatever task she was doing. My mother walked into the room, looked at the screen, sighed deeply and said, “You shouldn’t be watching this. The classic zombie film, Night of the Living Dead, was playing, and surrounded by stuffed animals, snacks and a blanket, I was settling in to watch the movie. On a dark night during Halloween 1984 I was watching television alone in my family’s living room. Emotions, imagery, intellect, your own sense of self. Tell me the difference between someone’s favourite horror film and someone else’s favourite art film. Just because you’re making a horror film doesn’t mean you can’t make an artful film. But I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation…. Most people have a certain understanding of what a horror film is, namely, that it is emotionally juvenile, ignorant, supremely non-intellectual and dumb. ![]()
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