Monday, February 20, 2012

Television and Cinema Verities: In the Words of the Creators #7



"Horror is always the same.  It just changes with the culture and changes with the technology.  The stories are always the same.  There are just two basic stories in horror, two simple ones - evil is outside and evil is in here [pointing to his heart].  That is basically it."

- Director John Carpenter discusses the nature of the horror genre in an interview from 2010 at Icon vs. Icon.

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