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From: morrow@osu-eddie.UUCP (Sharon Morrow)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Women and Horror Films
Message-ID: <615@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 09:57:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.615
Posted: Thu Sep 19 09:57:00 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 05:21:29 EDT
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Reply-To: morrow@osu-eddie.UUCP (Sharon Morrow)
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Organization: Ohio State Univ., CIS Dept., Cols, Oh.
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Keywords: Scary movies

In article <1902@reed.UUCP> purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva) writes:
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>films. I love scary movies. Psycho is one of my ten favourite movies,
>and I'll always go see a vampire or Frankenstein. In fact, any Hitchcock
>is great, because even if it's nothing that will make you scream (I
>screamed even the second time I saw Psycho) they almost always put you
>in suspense, which is just as exhilerating. On the other hand - I can't
>tolerate gory movies. I haven't seen any of the Friday the 13ths, and I
>would flatly refuse an inviation to do so. I just can't tolerate the
>violence. Being frightened is great - seeing blood and gore just doesn't
>do a thing for me though. Anyone else make this distinction?
>
I agree TOTALLY.  I love to read Hitchcock, and I'll go to the ends of
the earth (almost) to see one of his movies.  However, I can't appreciate
a chainsaw lopping off various human extremities, or a mad killer
chasing a co-ed around a deserted campus.  There is a vast chasm 
separating violence and fright.

				Sharon Morrow...


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