4.6 “How much horror can you take?” & “The difference between thriller, scary, and horror” (in 11 minutes)
Film Analysis with Luke
English - December 11, 2015 22:19 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MB - ★★★★ - 9 ratingsTV & Film filmanalysis moviereviews movies Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Some teasers...
“Prompt: You are given 1 million dollars to direct three five minute films: one thriller, one scary, one horror. What would these films be for you?”
“Many films booked as Black-Horror are actually Gray-scary - It Follows, A Girl Walked Home Alone at Night, a bunch of vampire/ghost…”
“But Horror, oh man, that’s a completely different apple pie. The hell of horror is a sticky combination of the insurmountable, the torturous, and the unknowable. Getting beat up by Mike Tyson…”
“There is a Helplessness in horror and you know it when you feel it.”
The “capacity-for-horror scale” or the “how-tough-are-you scale”
“Everyone has a sweet spot for pain where the stimulus feels masseusatory (made up word for therapeutic). There’s a type of teasing…”
“A good indicator, I’ve found, to show where a person squats on the “capacity-for-horror scale” is how they react to main characters dying.”
“Me personally, after learning of more and more of man’s inhumanity to man (damn you Dan Carlin and your Hardcore History) I’ve grown to enjoy…”