Horror Quote by Laura van den Berg

“I think my favorite horror films are really grounded in human psychology, which is to say I think through sort of extreme dislocations of reality.” quote by Laura van den Berg — Download Open image

“I think my favorite horror films are really grounded in human psychology, which is to say I think through sort of extreme dislocations of reality.”

Laura van den Berg

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To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills.

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Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the…

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As a genre, the best horror poses central human questions - Who can you trust? What is the cost of our secrets? What is our relationship to history? What are we blind to? What evils are lurking under the smooth surface of the self? - through radical dislocations.

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