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The author returns to the slasher film saturated ground he has trod before to provide a loving homage that leans a bit too heavily on insider knowledge of the genre.
“Horror movies really, really distracted me from the most painful time of my life. Alone in the theatre for a couple of hours, being manipulated into screaming, swearing, and tossing my popcorn, I was transported.”
“If you just look at your own nightmares, you know that there are no rules.”
“It’s difficult to assign a specific cultural meaning to the bad clown, because it is such a malleable archetype,” Radford writes.
“A lot of it reminds me of just how much I have come through. And how much the people I know have come through. And what it was like to lose people.”
“The very things that nurture you in the horror genre are also the things that can suppress an understanding of what you’re trying to do.”
Tuttle’s brand of quiet horror is at once a rejoinder to a genre that leans heavily on masculine aggression and a means to achieve effects more unsettling than an explicit presentation could ever be.
Cather’s use of a close third-person narration lends her story an uncanny element of unease and creepiness.
We can thank Wood for taking the horror film seriously, and for giving us a framework to understand many of our current cultural impasses.
Poe’s 1843 tale is not only one of the greatest horror stories ever written; it is also a pristine example of internal integrity in the short form.