- June 19, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Arthur Corber in GRAVE ENCOUNTERS (2011)
The refusal to mind our business is, according to the cinema, one of humanity’s greatest weaknesses. It’s what got an entire posse annihilated in Hang Em’ High, and what got Jake Gittes a slit nose in Chinatown. On the sci-fi side of things, the refusal takes the form of hubris, re-interpreting the tale of Icarus for contemporary tastes. Every character sprung from the creative loins of Dr. Frankenstein has sparked mayhem in their quest to fly ever closer to the sun. Re-orienting that same audacity within horror is easy; characters often investigate noises, stay in clearly haunted homes, pick up cursed artifacts, and make generally awful choices. Within the found footage subgenre, the majority of stories chronicle the fallout of an invasion of some…
