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On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:16:29 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbell net> wrote:
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>> My interpretation of horror is where the observer sees that something
>> absolutely dreadful is about to occur and cannot be stopped.
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> Is that really horror in the strictest sense ? To me that sounds like
>suspense not horror. For example the classic shower curtain scene at the
>Bates Motel where you see the silhouette of the knife on the shower
>curtain. That was classic Hitchcock the master of suspense. The horror
>was when the knife actually started slashing at the woman. You seem
>to imply the silhouette of the knife was the horror in the scene and
>the other scenarios you described follow that pattern. I say the
>action of the slashing is the horror and the silhouette of the knife
>was a simple vehicle adding suspense leading up to the act of horrible
>violence.
>
Yes it is just the different interpretation of the word "horror" that separates us.
Like
Peter Popov I tend to go with the idea that the important thing is what a picture
evokes
in the mind, rather than it's actual content. Fabien Mosen's calm image of Anne
Frank's
room for a previous IRTC had this powerful evocation (for me anyway) of man's
inhumanity
to man - and perhaps this is the ultimate in horror. You, Ken, seem to prefer the
interpretation of horror as the actual scene of carnage, which is a perfectly valid
view
and which will probably prevail in the IRTC. Ther great thing is that all these
different
ways of looking at a topic bring a diversity to the IRTC - in spite of the "spaceship
crashes into pyramid and sqashes hundreds of nude poser females" genre.
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> I certainly do not lack in imagination I just hope I can get the creative
>juices flowing enough to get something done :)
I can vouch for your imagination - but how you can find time to do any tracing given
the
effort you put into helping and commenting in these newsgroups, to say nothing of your
mammoth links collection, is beyond me!
David
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