John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV

Creator of the audio drama Enter The House Between. One of the horror genre's "most widely read critics" (Rue Morgue # 68), "an accomplished film journalist" (Comic Buyer's Guide #1535), and the award-winning author of Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002), John Kenneth Muir, presents his blog on film, television and nostalgia, named one of the Top 100 Film Studies Blog on the Net.

Friday, February 20, 2015

At Flashbak: Culture of Fear? Six Times that Fear was a Deadly Weapon on Sci-Fi TV

My new article at Flashbak remembers the cult-TV series that featured "fear" as a weapon.

Here's a snippet and the url ( http://flashbak.com/culture-of-fear-six-times-that-fear-was-a-deadly-weapon-on-sci-fi-tv-31111/ )

"According to an online article in Wired Magazine published on August 24, 2012, Darpa -- the advanced research division of the Pentagon -- was developing the idea of fear “as a weapon” in future wars or other military conflicts.

But science fiction TV was way ahead of reality in this particular case.

Fear had been used as a potent weapon by TV villains as far back as the year 1964.

With that fact in mind, here are six occasions in cult-TV history when “fear” was weaponized to harm the innocent."

John Kenneth Muir

award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).

2 comments:

SGB12:46 PM
John interesting subject. Glad to see Space:1999 "War Games" was included.

SGB
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Jimmy1:14 PM
Love the Space 1999 episode!! In V the series there was the particule beam triax in episode 2. A spaceship which could vaporize an entire moon. It was on it's way to los Angeles. Very impressive!!
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