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posted by [identity profile] zigguratbuilder.livejournal.com at 01:43pm on 20/04/2005
I propose a new division of horror: The Milli school and the Vanilli school:

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Milli horror is all about the horror of human emotions: Vice, greed, fear... They come out in movies like Se7en, Saw, and even movies like Carlitto's Way or plays like Othello or The Merchant of Venice.

Vanilli horror, however, is all about people being put into situations that are beyond their control: The situation, not an emotion, is the catalyst of horror. Movies like the Hellraiser series (1 and 2: The rest of the Hellraiser movies are not Hellraiser movies, though they bear the title), Silent Hill and Zero/Fatal Frame games, Lovecraft, the last 5 minutes of the remake of They, that episode of Saint Elsewhere where whatshisface dies and ends up in Purgatory for a while.

I have no point in this, really, as they're both cool and creepy. But I like making fun of early 90s pop icons.
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posted by [identity profile] relevance.livejournal.com at 03:15pm on 20/04/2005
The Milli/Vanilli binary kind of breaks down when you consider that "situational" Vanilli horror is also a horror of human emotions (mostly fear). The circumstance is never more than a (sometimes exquisite) narrative justification for the emotional response evoked by it, which is the core of any good horror story.

So I guess I'm saying that Vanilli is a subset of Milli.
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posted by [identity profile] bob-goat.livejournal.com at 03:45pm on 20/04/2005
You have just secured you place at my side in hell with that pic. Every day as we roast I can at least chuckle about this...
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