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Is 21 your age or your IQ? This one's for you
Englishteacherguy from ,
7th November, 2009
When I was in my twenties, I was fascinated by Clive Barker's books. When I was in my thirties, I threw them all away, because I was afraid that one of my children might read them. I like horror, but I don't like this film. It's dark, unpleasant, cruel and pointless. Clive Barker creates his own mythologies, and they have a certain quality that sets them apart from the B-movie disposability you see in some trashy horror. I think it's an age thing - When you're a kid, horror is about the morbid fascination of seeing how much unpleasantness you are tough enough to stomach. You get to a certain age and horror is about the quest to survive. One day you wake up and realise that there really are murderers out there, and it's more pleasant to think that they might be caught than to dwell on the fact that most of them aren't.