How Horror Makes Itself Ungovernable - Blood Knife
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As "geek" culture dominates the box office, horror—with its gory, upsetting complexity—has proven to be the one genre capable of fighting back.
How Horror Makes Itself Ungovernable Horror—with all its gory, upsetting complexity—makes for an uneasy product. by RS Benedict // Illustration by Sam Hindman The geeks have won, we are told. Geek culture—comic books, video games, sci-fi, fantasy—is mainstream now, squeezing out mysteries, dramas, and period pieces at the box office. But that victory has brought with it a dreary ossification. Most of these geek movies are sequels, reboots and adaptations of intellectual properties decades old. Superman first appeared in comics in 1938. The Star Wars franchise debuted over forty years ago. Even
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