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What is Horror? (Feat. Kim Newman)

The Evolution of Horror

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The Horror of Hannibal Lecter

There's a critical misapprehension that his films are about suggestion and not showing the monster. Actually, Luton's films are more violent than contemporary horror films. Sonnets of the Lambs is an interesting one I want to ask you about because it gets branded with the word thriller much more than horror. And in Mannhunter, Hannibal Lecter is kept in a striplet white room,. which is my guess what psychopaths are really kept in your silence. In Silence of the LamBS, he's kept in a dungeon, right? Yeah. It looks like Castle Dracula. The film is shot, lit, edited and scored like a horror film. There will be blood is a

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