tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post4039693651047855250..comments2024-02-05T10:41:31.777-05:00Comments on I Saw Lightning Fall: Sans Support?Loren Eatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-59942771920669739152011-06-20T10:53:43.557-04:002011-06-20T10:53:43.557-04:00Let the Right One In is a great example of what ho...<i>Let the Right One In</i> is a <i>great</i> example of what horror can do well. Much of the genre is junk, but a few pieces really illuminate human condition in amazing ways.Loren Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-80399001033298497502011-06-19T14:26:10.625-04:002011-06-19T14:26:10.625-04:00I've never thought of myself as enjoying the h...I've never thought of myself as enjoying the horror genre. However, after briefly talking with a woman at a con, I began to wonder if I'm just not realizing the wondrous extent of horror. I have enjoyed the Drabblecast & the little bits & pieces I've seen of HP Lovecraft. More recently, I realized that Let the Right One In, while vampire fiction is more properly horror (I don't think of vampire/werewolf/zombie fiction as horror) and I really enjoyed it. My avoidance of horror is I'm not interested in being scared, but I am interested in how people react in horror-like situations and what it brings out in the people.AidanFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09876041003278004627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-12734729266500775222011-06-13T08:50:07.896-04:002011-06-13T08:50:07.896-04:00Yes! I see the dynamic you're talking about, e...Yes! I see the dynamic you're talking about, especially when I look at horror. Most everyone think of horror in terms of slasher flicks (or perhaps their nasty cousins the torture-porn movies), largely worthless ghettos in the greater genre neighborhood. But trying to convince others that horror as a whole has some worth is almost impossible when they think in terms of Freddie or Jason or the <i>Hostel</i> series.Loren Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12488412683340389286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025264318423694875.post-74397204128078308672011-06-10T09:40:10.023-04:002011-06-10T09:40:10.023-04:00The thing you have to contend with is the past. Al...The thing you have to contend with is the past. All you have to do is look at how a thing is marketed to see the damage that can be done. Case in point: Batman. The Batman was trundling along quite nicely until 1966 when ABC broadcast their new version of the character and from then on the comic spiralled into a horrible camp universe which it never truly recovered from until 1986 with Frank Miller’s <i>Batman: The Dark Knight</i>. Suddenly the character was brought back into perspective and he’s never looked back since even if Bat-Mite never completely went away.<br /><br />And it’s the same with science fiction only worse. We have decades-worth of B-movies and pulp novels riddled with B.E.M.’s stacked up again a relatively small number of great science fiction novels and I’m sure that fantasy and horror suffer even more. It take time to change people’s opinions and Joe Public has a long memory. <br /><br />It was like when the respected literary novelist William McIlvanney wrote <i>Laidlaw</i>, a detective novel! A lot of people shook their head at the time but he was onto something, something that a few years later Ian Rankin acknowledged. He also regarded himself as a serious novelist but he also recognised the potential of the detective novel because who else has an open door to every stratum of society?<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com