S3: OFFICE HOURS - How the Coronavirus Will Affect Horror
Colors of the Dark
FANGORIA Podcast Network
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:48.7 | Hello, and welcome to Season 3, Episode 1 of Office Hours.. I'm your host Dr. Rebecca McKendry. |
| 0:58.0 | Greetings from my home, which is where I'm now taping all of my podcasts until further noticed. |
| 1:03.7 | I have not really left my home in almost three weeks. So I'm going to open this episode with a quote from one of my favorite movies, The Thing. |
| 1:12.3 | Nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired. Nothing else I can do, just wait. |
| 1:19.6 | So this is weird and wild, and when I'm not homeschooling my kids and disinfecting my Amazon |
| 1:25.6 | deliveries, I'm trying to figure out how this is going to change the shape of horror films. |
| 1:30.3 | As I've discussed before on Nightmare University, the horror genre tends to completely change after national tragedies. |
| 1:37.3 | For more of this, you can check out the torture porn episode from season one of Nightmare University. |
| 1:42.3 | We can look at most major national tragedies that likely affected the psyche of everyone, |
| 1:47.0 | and then almost chart how the horror genre shifted directly afterwards. |
| 1:52.0 | After the Vietnam War ended, horror became increasingly violent and bleak, |
| 1:57.0 | with films like Last House on the Left and Straw Dogs and The Exorcist. We saw the same thing |
| 2:01.6 | happened again after 9-11, where within a couple of years, the market shifted towards more of |
| 2:06.7 | torture porn, and we saw popularity of films like Saw and Hostile Rise. So I'm intrigued to see how |
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