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The Evolution of Horror

MIND & BODY Pt 1: An Introduction

The Evolution of Horror

Mike Muncer

Tv & Film, Film History

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 120 minutes

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We’re BACK! This week Mike is joined by Kevin Lyons to discuss the films that fit the bill for this brand new series: Everything from psychological thrillers to classic body horror, to extreme cinema.

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0:00.0

The A candy-colored clown they call the sandman tip close to my room every night. Is there anything more frightening than us, our own bodies and our own minds?

0:26.0

Is there anything more frightening than us, our own bodies and our own minds. Sometimes the horror genre doesn't need to rely on monsters,

0:38.0

vampires, zombies, Satanists or pagan cults to create a sense of fear, dread and terror.

0:49.0

Sometimes the horror genre simply takes a look within and forces us to reckon with ourselves.

0:55.2

Taking you inside the mind of a girl driven to insanity.

1:00.1

We're all scared of the unknown and is there anything more unknown than our own bodies and our own minds?

1:08.0

Do you know where dreams come from?

1:10.0

What are dreams and nightmares? How does the subconscious work? What does it mean to be sane or insane? How do different people experience both pleasure and pains?

1:20.0

Demons to suffer, Demons to others. How do we stop our own bodies or our own brains from failing on us, from

1:29.2

deteriorating, from rotting?

1:31.2

That's disgusting. from rotting. This series we're going to try and answer some of these questions and explore these topics

1:38.8

by looking into some of the darker and more bizarre areas of the horror genre.

1:43.6

We're going to take a look at the history and the evolution of psychological horror and body horror from German expressionist

1:55.7

classics that visualised internal psychological states like the cabinet of Dr Caligari to movies

2:02.4

that shocked and sickened audiences at the time

2:04.8

simply by showing them atypical or abnormal physical forms like Todd Browning's

2:10.3

freaks.

2:12.3

We accept her. We accept her. Google gobble. We're going to be looking at the

2:16.4

different types of psychological horror from movies about female hysteria and

2:20.8

madness.

2:21.8

To movies that try to unpick and figure out the minds of

2:27.5

serial killers. Why do you think he removes their skins, agents darling.

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