| On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:33:57 -0700 (PDT), moviePig wrote: Quote:I'm no authority, but on this point would argue only with those who claim to be. My personal supposition is that 'horror movie' has long borne the de facto gestalt of the supernatural ...made real, and come to scare you sh*tless. (Fwiw, I don't feel 'horror novel' carries the same stricture.) So, e.g., when I comment on HIGH TENSION, I address my remarks explicitly to 'horror fans' despite HT being *not* a 'horror movie' (...if I'm consistent, anyway). And thus, say, Freddy Kruger is horror but Michael Myers isn't. (We used to have a good word available for Michael, Jason, Norman Bates, and their serial- hijinks brethren... 'terror'... but it's lately been conscripted for a war effort...) To me, when it goes supernatural, it becomes less believable, and thus less horrifying. |