Nicely written as always. I'll happily buy the Game Boy from Technology Nun; those things are expensive now.
I wonder if you've encountered Sam Kriss's article "The Repulsive Crust" on this platform before. He raises excellent points regarding the increasingly more vacuous and painfully reductive narratives so often encapsulated in "big brain" films of the modern age. (Shots are fired at A24, although he did enjoy Hereditary. Glad you did, too, by the way; it's one of the best horror works in recent years.)
Thanks for the blog, insightful and interesting as usual. thanks also for vividly bringing back the memory of when I saw the Exorcist. I remember where i was and with whom some 40 years ago. I hope i sleep well tonight and i will not be going in the basement without my flashlight!
Mainly for reasons you stated, I avoid current horror movies. But back in the day, Rosemary’s Baby scared the shit out of me. And it was only outdone to this day by The Exorcist.
"They show you not just that something (anything) is frightening, but show you that understanding that something does little to assuage the fear it inspires in you. They each, in their own way, remind us that our feelings or emotions aren’t neutralized by knowledge. They aren’t, in many cases, even affected by it. They revel in the fact that you (whoever you are) are mostly a sensate body guided by feeling rather than an abstracted mind powered by reason."
God I love a sensate body, and I love being reminded that I'm (in) it.
Nicely written as always. I'll happily buy the Game Boy from Technology Nun; those things are expensive now.
I wonder if you've encountered Sam Kriss's article "The Repulsive Crust" on this platform before. He raises excellent points regarding the increasingly more vacuous and painfully reductive narratives so often encapsulated in "big brain" films of the modern age. (Shots are fired at A24, although he did enjoy Hereditary. Glad you did, too, by the way; it's one of the best horror works in recent years.)
A link, just in case:
https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-repulsive-crust
Thanks for the blog, insightful and interesting as usual. thanks also for vividly bringing back the memory of when I saw the Exorcist. I remember where i was and with whom some 40 years ago. I hope i sleep well tonight and i will not be going in the basement without my flashlight!
Mainly for reasons you stated, I avoid current horror movies. But back in the day, Rosemary’s Baby scared the shit out of me. And it was only outdone to this day by The Exorcist.
"They show you not just that something (anything) is frightening, but show you that understanding that something does little to assuage the fear it inspires in you. They each, in their own way, remind us that our feelings or emotions aren’t neutralized by knowledge. They aren’t, in many cases, even affected by it. They revel in the fact that you (whoever you are) are mostly a sensate body guided by feeling rather than an abstracted mind powered by reason."
God I love a sensate body, and I love being reminded that I'm (in) it.