Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the cellar or to the attic or to the crypt when it's quite… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose other possibilities. In the horror movies there is finally a Hobbesian state of nature: 'continual fear and danger… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow. — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad'… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood. — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose other possibilities.… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century... the sense… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
