Awesome? I vote: yes. It's nice that after using up an album, there's still more lurking around the internet.

I've been thinking about horror movies lately. As a genre, they're a subset of "thrillers," and then break down into a few more categories. They're a genre, because there are elements that only make sense within the context of a horror movie, most notably the specific techniques that are used to frighten (music, loud noise, visual effects, etc.).

The first sub-category would be gore horror (or, "horror" henceforth, as in horrifying, as in "an intense, painful feeling of repugnance and fear") where the threat is against your body in a physical sense. That is to say, it's unsettling because it's disgusting, because it makes you consider being horribly mutilated. Ew. With this sort of movie, you might decline viewership because "you might like to eat later tonight."

The second is what I would call "terror" movies, because, being terrifying, they "instill intense, overpowering fear." They're the movies that prevent you from sleeping later. They're disturbing, but it a different way: they suggest a threat to you as a whole, as in, something could "get" you sometime somehow.

The first (horror) category is more of a specific threat. The second (terror) is a deeper threat, but does not need to present a specific type of horror. Many movies from the horror genre include elements of both. ANyway, this has been a short musing on the topic of some thing I was thinking about one time.



Right, so that's that. 'Night.


~parker.

The Streets - Fit But You Know It (featuring The Futureheads)