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Halloween (1978) (Class: horror moves in to the suburbs (shocking cause…
Halloween (1978)
Class: horror moves in to the suburbs
tracking shots of the house reinforces the suburban as monstrous
Haddonfield, IL--close to home, sort of
"death has come to your little town"--Dr. Loomis
shocking cause it's happening to middle class, upper middle class WHITE people (plays on shock value and cultural values)
if violence is particularly tied to urban or hyper rural spaces, and if violence is seen as tied to peopple of color, Carpenter moves the violence to white, suburban spaces
Meyers as product of the neighborhood--this isn't an outside force, violence is part of the commmunity
connections to
Northanger Abbey
"grow up"--the coming of age/trauma
"guys don't like me cause they think I'm too smart" (questions of sexual innocence and purity
the genre evolves: Laurie is a bit more aware/self-aware than Catherine
questions of fate: Michael as personified fate\e; Otranto and fate, Austen and predestined plotting
questions of diagnosis and pathology: gives him an excuse
allows viewers to associate instability with violence/murder
reproduces ableist tropes of mentally ill as inherently violent
narratively doesn't explain the violence upfront
questions of verbal v nonverbal
infantalizing people with disabilities
audience reactions
"turn around, don't be dumb"
"just run away"
DEATH SCENES
linda's phone choking turned orgasm moan; Annie's car sex moans
do death scenes have to be moral punishment?
what if it's just fixation--questions of fetishization/objectification? What if it's just fate?
absence of parents: puts pressure on fantasy of middle class having kids
renders teens vulnerable