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.
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?
Embodying horror, the post-apocalyptic, origins/endings, blackness, and the void have become an important way to process a new way of existing.
This being "American Horror Story," we know what to expect as we near the end of a season: lots of kill-offs, a touch of torture, and quick tie-offs of existing storylines.
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.
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.
Of all the horrors, existing and potential, confronted in Mr Kubrick's films, the abandoning of literacy is perhaps the most dismaying.
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.
If the show is a re staging of an existing play, such as "The Little Shop of Horrors" or "Hamlet", you should note this in your introduction.
Final Cut X is the most controversial version of Apple's video editing software, launched to cries of horror from existing users.
