It was all about the power and horror of narcissism.
This 10-part silent-era serial from 1915 exploits the power of horror imagery to great effect.
These tales of the destructive fallout of fractured families offer a superbly disquieting demonstration of the uneasy power of horror fiction.
"In the end, the only answer we have to politics, to power, to horror, is the love we might know for each other.
My suspicion says no. Like many modern movie trilogies, Smith's series of novels falls off depressingly in its second and third instalments, though each is adorned with striking sequences and moments of power and horror.
The movie catches the ecstatic energies of the African-American church — a new experience for the secular Flik — as well as the grave responsibilities of its power and horror of its abuse.
Roger Corman's movies would demonstrate the sheer trashy power of horror, and Hitchcock tapped into this B-picture aesthetic with his own low-budget masterpiece, Psycho, which popularised the psychological horror film, taking the genre away from its supernatural roots – although William Friedkin's masterpiece, The Exorcist, took it right back there again.
Thanks in part to path-clearing feminist and gay art of the past, young artists can draw on a vast pool of cultural references: to fashion, crafts, pop music, Saturday morning cartoons, art history, advertising, digital technology, flower power psychedelia, horror movies, spirituality, science fiction, pornography.
Plus women are getting SO much more power in horror films these days -- Have you seen Hard Candy?
It's one of the ways I try to reduce the power and horror those subjects hold for me.
The constant drip of revelations appears to have united the large swathe of Peruvians who view a return of Fujimorismo to power with horror.
