Post by The Fluorescent One on Nov 20, 2020 20:40:20 GMT
Something I want to write, over time, with enough motivation and the properly fixed motives. Right now, I'm in editing.
My greater point involves the passage of time and how world events influence what we consider horror. Because of the way commerce works in our world, film-going audiences never Make a Demand for something = then studios produce it. As we all know, films try to calculate what audiences will most want to see for the sake of financial gain. They don't care about making good movies. So, they don't care at all about horror's routes or how Halloween the holiday became popularized.
For example, this might not seem relevant but... Halloween is clearly a holiday for "the youth." However a "kid" or teen goes about celebrating Halloween, it's a form of self-expression. But commerce ruined Halloween in the mid-1990's by advertising "Non-Scary" "alternatives" to any/everything. Even Halloween decorations of 2-3 decades ago where ghosts and witches and black cats and skeletons (etc) had evil smiles on their faces.
I was born in October of 1982, so you can imagine I live for this stuff like it's my lifeblood; it was like fate that I was born in October. So, by any random 80's or early 90's year, we still had access to "Cool" Halloween Decorations with "scarier" (relative term), more evil-looking characters. And they did scare me, in a really exciting way. I never wanted that feeling to go away because it literally made me who I am today. It set my creativity ON FIRE! In 1 way, it made me an enthusiast for classic-to-early contemporary animation (Disney, Charlie Brown, Garfield, Looney Tunes) and early-form video games on NES-Atari-SNES.
In another way, it made me a budding horror fan. On my way to becoming a HUGE horror fan. But, because my love of dark and imaginative things was based in art and animation and atmosphere-based creative elements ("haunted house" sound effects tapes, Disney book-on-tapes, "scary story" records, old vintage radio programs-some of them comedy-based; though I first had a thing for Weird Al and Firesign Theater pre-high school), the infamous Horror Movie was just about my last step.
So... I would say I've had the single greatest background launch into horror movies a person could have. Of course, my eventual exposure into horror was mixed.
that horror began in theatrical plays where people just put on gory spectacles.
It might not seem like this will be entirely relevant to what's going on with violence in film. But: it entirely informs why violence in horror works the way it does.
Like, I was born in October-1982 and being raised in the 1980's is difficult. You learn to love nostalgia and if you had a super hard upbringing like I did (being queer, physically abused by parents as a child) suddenly- something snaps. You don't stop loving style and
My greater point involves the passage of time and how world events influence what we consider horror. Because of the way commerce works in our world, film-going audiences never Make a Demand for something = then studios produce it. As we all know, films try to calculate what audiences will most want to see for the sake of financial gain. They don't care about making good movies. So, they don't care at all about horror's routes or how Halloween the holiday became popularized.
For example, this might not seem relevant but... Halloween is clearly a holiday for "the youth." However a "kid" or teen goes about celebrating Halloween, it's a form of self-expression. But commerce ruined Halloween in the mid-1990's by advertising "Non-Scary" "alternatives" to any/everything. Even Halloween decorations of 2-3 decades ago where ghosts and witches and black cats and skeletons (etc) had evil smiles on their faces.
I was born in October of 1982, so you can imagine I live for this stuff like it's my lifeblood; it was like fate that I was born in October. So, by any random 80's or early 90's year, we still had access to "Cool" Halloween Decorations with "scarier" (relative term), more evil-looking characters. And they did scare me, in a really exciting way. I never wanted that feeling to go away because it literally made me who I am today. It set my creativity ON FIRE! In 1 way, it made me an enthusiast for classic-to-early contemporary animation (Disney, Charlie Brown, Garfield, Looney Tunes) and early-form video games on NES-Atari-SNES.
In another way, it made me a budding horror fan. On my way to becoming a HUGE horror fan. But, because my love of dark and imaginative things was based in art and animation and atmosphere-based creative elements ("haunted house" sound effects tapes, Disney book-on-tapes, "scary story" records, old vintage radio programs-some of them comedy-based; though I first had a thing for Weird Al and Firesign Theater pre-high school), the infamous Horror Movie was just about my last step.
So... I would say I've had the single greatest background launch into horror movies a person could have. Of course, my eventual exposure into horror was mixed.
that horror began in theatrical plays where people just put on gory spectacles.
It might not seem like this will be entirely relevant to what's going on with violence in film. But: it entirely informs why violence in horror works the way it does.
Like, I was born in October-1982 and being raised in the 1980's is difficult. You learn to love nostalgia and if you had a super hard upbringing like I did (being queer, physically abused by parents as a child) suddenly- something snaps. You don't stop loving style and