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Tag: horror
Childhood Fear and Horror as Psychological Development
For a while, my husband and I opened our home to foster children for something called respite care. It’s basically multi-day to weeklong babysitting for foster kids when the primary foster parents have to attend to something else. Out of state trips. Long weekends. The kind of thing where you might drop a non-foster kid… Continue reading Childhood Fear and Horror as Psychological Development
The Application of Camp in Horror Media
We’re at a stage in the media landscape where I sometimes wonder if we should ever so slightly gatekeep the word camp, if only to preserve some sense of meaning. For the sake of this thought experiment, imagine camp in your head. Further imagine camp horror, specifically. Because we do this thing where we’ll say… Continue reading The Application of Camp in Horror Media
I Hate the Book It, but Love the Mini-series
When I was about nine (give or take a year) some cable channel or other was re-running the 1990 It mini-series over the course of a week leading up to Halloween. My mom hadn’t seen it since in released the first time and thought it would be fun family TV. Now this might be horrifying… Continue reading I Hate the Book It, but Love the Mini-series
Deconstructing Genre Expectations Through the Lens of Horror
For horror movies, I love a good paranormal story. Something with demons or ghosts that present this sort of otherworldly threat. Mostly because I have the audacity to think I could take out a slasher, alien, monster, or otherwise corporeal menace. So I like a real threat.It's also one of the very few genres where… Continue reading Deconstructing Genre Expectations Through the Lens of Horror
Refining the Definition of Horror (In the Dumbest Way Possible)
A few years ago, a journalist bade the bold claim, on Twitter, that the Alien movies weren’t horror because they were set in space.I’ve always haunted a fair few movie and horror forums, and it was reposted there multiple times (here’s one of the places I saw it on Reddit where it’s still posted). No… Continue reading Refining the Definition of Horror (In the Dumbest Way Possible)
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