Key Issue Flashcards
1
Q
HOWEVER
A
Could just be producer copying ideas from context and so these types of films are more likely to be made
2
Q
Why do we enjoy horrors
A
They are a cathartic experience and reflect the unconscious’s anxieties and fears.
Displaced anxieties onto characters and hate into monsters.
3
Q
Skal
A
Genre of horrors reflex anxieties of the time:
After ww1 hunchback, coming to terms with mass disfigurements after war
After Cold War and USSR war, alien dominance films occurred