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In place of the "it" in her inquiry, read "the making of a dumb horror parody about killer fish that like to bite private parts".
But Alps (a film that is itself about the ownership of history and the pure dumb horror of repeating the past) goes in the opposite direction.
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It's worth noting, though, that the techniques he deploys so skillfully are on the shameless side, intended to heighten the big, dumb sensations horror audiences like to feel: fear and revulsion, primarily.
It's hard to describe how awkward it is to sit in a room surrounded by devout Christian matriarchs who are all watching in dumb-struck horror as a woman describes, on loop, how her crippling back pain has forced her out of work and "she couldn't even take a bath… take a bath… take a bath".
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George Herriman's "Krazy Kat" has a kind of artistic genius; "The Vault of Horror" is just dumb.
As cult movies go, "The Big Lebowski" is much wittier than "Animal House" or "Hairspray," and free of the dumb-bunny silliness of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or the fumy mystical pretensions of "El Topo".
That kind of relief is what horror fans are obviously chasing the realization that a dumb movie screen doesn't actually have any effect on your physical wellbeing.
Most of them thought the psychological horror and heavy symbolism was not only a failure, but the dumbest Batman story ever, many of whom laughed at the idea.
He talks, with controlled horror, about the studio bosses he has met whose twin mantras are, "We have to dumb this down" and, "There's no such thing as 'too simple'".
Bock stated that Americans get horror and comedy, but with the idea "of those two things together in one place, people suddenly get very dumb".
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