THAT HORROR COMPLEX!
PUBLIC'S STRANGE TASTES.
It's still a mystery why people pay their good money to be scared to death. These mystery and spine-chilling films, in which the hero is shot at and stabbed in the dark at least nine times, and in which the heroine faces that famous "fate worse than death" are alwaye popular, no matter how haphazardly they are done. And now we hear just what kind of "heart-paralysers" the public like best. Here is a list, as compiled by Guy Endore, scenario writer:— 1. A dead person not really being dead. 2. The fear of going insane. 3. The fear of dying under unnatural circumstances —such as being buried alive. 4. The fear of physical torture. 5. The fear of being shut phobiaC. Special fears, euch as the inability to look from high places, horror of reptiles, and so on. Some clay some simply horrid film will combine all six terrors, and will consequently break all available box-office records.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1935, Page 5 (Supplement)
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