Date: 2006-02-08 06:30 am (UTC)
I used to be a big fan of Lovecraft, until I realized that the so-called "fear of the unknown" that was central to his mythos was merely Howard Philips' "fear of marine life." Not that this is completely unjustified, as images of deep sea fauna or things washed up by tsunamis indicate. Nothing terrestrial is more alien than those things.

I've already claimed that Silent Hill does rely on the "things jump out at you" mechanic, in fact I think this is what allows reasonable translation from video game to film, although I would say that this mechanic does not relate to the nature of the tension. The mechanic works regardless of whether the "thing" is a nameless horror from beyond time, an axe-wielding serial killer, or a terrorist you're having a gunfight with. In fact, in a higher order sense, as the viewer of a film, any cut to a shot of the nameless horror is equivalent to it jumping out at you.

Does She's the Man feature a woman disguised as a man? Or maybe twins, or a shipwreck?
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"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen

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