Subj : horror memories
To   : GEORGE POPE
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Fri Feb 11 2022 05:55:22

  CP wrote ---


> I'll seed this by listing some women in horror:

  The only ones I know of are: Curtis, Wray (who did a lot more work than
just King Kong which is only film usually talked a-boot, a little Canadian
lingo for ya) Campbell, Jackson, Black, Elvira (who's a hoot), Candace
Hilligoss who seemed be sleepwalking in
   I noticed not on the list was Evelyn Ankers who was in a several
Universal horror films in the '40s. 
   Another was Mary Philbin in the original Phantom of the opera in 1925,
who made other films in the '20s as well.

  -snip--

> On t hat -- I think it sucks that there's no true horror in movies any more --  they substitute gore & jump-scares for actual suspense & eerieness.

  I totally agree.  
  I don't care for the bloody gore and all in today's films.
  Give me a good plot, a good story and I'm happy.
  To really enjoy a movie, to me, it has to be believable, it could happen,
etc.  Those are creepier than something like Frankenstein, a Michael
Meyers-type character, some monster from space, etc.
  Of course a lot of those films were allegories.  The monster in the film
representing the evil red menace in the disguise of average red blooded
American, et.
  Joe
 
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