Seriously though, it's more than a little terrifying that Watson was able to create this trailer after analyzing the trailers of 100 existing horror movies, and analyzing scenes both in terms of visuals and audio to come up with this resulting teaser.
Freddy Vs Jason, Alien Vs Predator, Santa Claus Versus The Zombies: all adhere to the Roger Corman Ethic of Perpetually Recycled Trash – someone else's franchise, someone else's original idea, then some producer with a wrestling promoter's mind imagines the perfect match-up of pre-existing horrors and slaps them on tonight's fight-card.
Of all the horrors, existing and potential, confronted in Mr Kubrick's films, the abandoning of literacy is perhaps the most dismaying.
But did you ever think of him as a balladeer of the unbearable bleakness of being, of the horror of existing without purpose in a godless universe?
The genteel response to a renaissances of this kind is naturally one of stark horror – pawnbroking existing somewhere in folk memory between baby-farming and the Scutari sanitation arrangements.
Final Cut X is the most controversial version of Apple's video editing software, launched to cries of horror from existing users.
Today we are people who know better, and what we know are the horrors of "actually existing" Utopias of the previous century: Nazi Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union, Maoist China, and so on in depressing repetition.1 In each case there was a radical break with the present and a bold leap toward an imagined future; in every case the result was disastrous in terms of human cost.
Plus, expect to see existing shows remade for TV: horror series Lore, social-commentary comedy Throwing Shade, podcast-themed podcast StartUp and, of course, Serial are among those that have been optioned by programme-makers.
It is safer down in their subterranean shantytown than being homeless on ground level, but for me a second viewing disclosed even more clearly the un-bohemian horror of actually existing down there, having almost literally fallen through the cracks.
Blomkamp's grotesque mixture of the war and horror genres show builds on existing concepts in Vietnam's ghost mythos.
