@tomcoates it's crazy how the brain just needs a teeny reminder of what terrified you as a child and then bam! recurring nightmare! :)
@mrjudkins @tomcoates We lived right next to Haddonfield NJ :) that's pretty twisted actually in retrospect no wonder I had nightmares!
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@avantgame I definitely think part of the art of enjoying horror generally is riding the adrenaline without allowing it to feel too 'real'. -
@tomcoates Christian Metz!! I haven't heard that name since first semester grad school film theory class ^_^ I should go back and look -
@avantgame I love that book. Read it a lot while doing my (aborted) PhD work. -
@tomcoates we'll have to do a come as your favorite theorist party sometime, no costume required but you say stuff your theorist would say
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@avantgame So yeah, living next to a slasher film capital would probably get in the way of that! Quite hard to think of it as fiction... -
@tomcoates I was actually quite confused until probably college whether Halloween was based on a true story or not. Hilarious in retrospect
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@avantgame One way is humour - which is interesting. That when you can push things into an unreal and funny space then you can control fear.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@avantgame And there are loads of ways to sort of give people that instinctual satisfaction without triggering all their defenses.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@avantgame He says that the only two reasons for not liking a film are (basically) not enough stimulation or too much.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@avantgame There's some great stuff in Christian Metz's Psychoanalysis and Cinema that I hold with me with things like this.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@avantgame@mrjudkins Yeah, well, you know. Yeah. Er.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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