FILM 3420D Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Cabin In The Woods, Boris Karloff, Soviet Montage Theory
4 Apr 2016
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Monsters, here, are identified as any being not now believed to exist according to reigning scientific notions. The genre named after the affect it raises, the sense of horror. Latin horrore to stand on end (as hair standing on end) or to bristle. Old french orror to bristle or to shudder. Muscular contractions, tension, cringing, shrinking, shuddering, recoiling, tingling, frozenness, momentary arrests, chilling (hence, spine-chilling) Both living and dead: ghosts, zombies, vampires, mummies. Mixture of what is normally distinct (demonic possession, werewolf) Come from marginal, hidden, or abandoned sites (graveyards, abandoned towers and castles, sewers, old houses, or even outer space) Latin monstare: to show", de-monstrate" monster to teach a social lesson. Carrol: viewer to mirror the reaction of frightened and disgusted characters. Avoid contact with the monstrous, repress, exclude. Horror also the positive expression of repressed desires. E. g. twilight (romantic / sexual desire of monster)
