I asked a friend of mine just yesterday, “What do you get out of Horror?” He had no concrete answer.
In time, he asked me the same thing. “Because films are art,” I replied. “I like viewing different perspectives; I like to dissect things.” In general, not just with film, my preference with creative endeavors is to indulge in things with “credible” substance (“credible” being subjective, of course). Brainless comedies or action films are fine every so often, but things like The Reflecting Skin are more to my liking, at least from the outset.
Sometimes those subjects with perceived substance end up being fool’s gold.
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