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The Horror Genre and it is to me
What is Horror?
What is Gothic?
What do these words mean to you?
So From On Art & Life By John Ruskin
The Characteristics or moral elements of Gothic
1. Savageness (Or rudeness)
2. Changefulness (Love of Change)
3. Naturalism (Love of Nature)
4. Grotesqueness (Disturbed Imagination)
5. Rigidity (Obstinacy)
6. Redundance (Generosity)
For me I really discovered it in Jr High School with Edgar Allen Poe and Howard P. Lovecraft. Call of Cthulhu is the start of this for me.
Then along came slasher flicks, which are not my taste at all. I like the flavor of Event Horizon, Call of Cthulhu, Remade The Thing, Most anything from John Carpenter, especially Prince of Darkness, the more psychological than gore and blood violence.
I bought years worth of Fangoria back then as well.
Now my tastes are a bit more refined, a touch of Japanese Horror is good as well. But not Chainsaws, even though Hellraiser is incredible.
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