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How the Horror Genre Works

Otherppl with Brad Listi

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The Dichotomy of the Basement and the Attic in Horror Stories

The cellar is where the ghost, the crimes of the past are buried. The attic is typically shown in a much more positive light in storytelling. It shows past memories that we've forgotten but were in many cases utopian moments. This is what Norman can't face, that he had desire for his mother and that he then killed his mother, Matraside,. That's just unspoken, cannot be done. So that's why the basement is so crucial in story because it is the physical expression of that part of the mind.

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