Film Analysis With Luke

Some teasers...“Prompt: You are given 1 million dollars to direct three five minute films: one thriller, one scary, one horror. What would these films be for you?” “Many films booked as Black-Horror are actually Gray-scary - It Follows, A Girl Walked Home Alone at Night, a bunch of vampire/ghost…” “But Horror, oh man, that’s a completely different apple pie. The hell of horror is a sticky combination of the insurmountable, the torturous, and the unknowable. Getting beat up by Mike Tyson…” “There is a Helplessness in horror and you know it when you feel it.” The “capacity-for-horror scale” or the “how-tough-are-you scale” “Everyone has a sweet spot for pain where the stimulus feels masseusatory (made up word for therapeutic). There’s a type of teasing…” “A good indicator, I’ve found, to show where a person squats on the “capacity-for-horror scale” is how they react to mai