Healing Through Horror

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Science Fiction

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Steven Sheil grew up in the era of "video nasties" -- a pushback by conservatives in the UK to ban Hollywood slasher films before they could corrupt the youth. The effort backfired and made contraband films like The Evil Dead into hot commodities for impressionable youth like Steven. He grew up to become a horror filmmaker, but he never imagined the genre would help him deal with personal loss. Across the pond, Aaron Orbey wrote in The New Yorker about having a similar experience. Except in Aaron's case, he needed horror to remember a tragedy he was too young to fully experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:22.7	or up.
0:25.5	You're listening to imaginary worlds.
0:27.7	I'll show about how we create them and why we suspend our disbelief.
0:31.4	I'm Eric Mullinsky.
0:33.2	And this is Steven Sheel.
0:35.5	He's a filmmaker in the UK who specializes in horror.
0:40.2	When I was growing up, my kind of first exposure to horror I guess was during the video
0:44.7	nasty era in the 80s where there was this kind of moral panic tied into the proliferation
0:49.9	of VCRs in the domestic market where suddenly people realized that horror movies could
0:54.4	be seen in the privacy of your own home.
0:57.3	So there was a campaign mainly by a conservative Christian crusaders backed by politicians in
1:03.0	the media which eventually led to the creation of an act of parliament which banned certain
1:07.5	films and led to films even being prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act.
1:12.2	So they created a list of films that were not allowed to be certificated and that could
1:17.3	be prosecuted under this act and these were films like I spit on your grave last house
1:22.5	on the left, Cannibal Holocaust.
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