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Why Are The French So Good At Horror Films?

They gave us the delightful, fun, light-hearted comedies, Martyrs and Haute Tension… okay, perhaps two of the most visceral and emotionally brutal films of the last decade. Just what makes our French cousins so compétente when it comes to horror? This article from Huffington Post investigates.

Classification Necessary: Problems With Horror

Usually it’s easy to classify something as horror. Gore? Check. Killer/Ghost/Demon? Check. Drug-fuelled teenagers portrayed by thirty year old actors who’ve no doubt got an oil-based self-portrait stashed away in the loft that bleeds and weeps occasionally? Check. Sometimes, though, it’s not quite as simple as that, as this article over at Fistful Of Wits explains.

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