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Podcast: School of Movies
Episode: Horror is a Spice
Description: [School of Everything Else 2024]
This is a special episode I've been planning for many years, ever since the notion that 'Horror' as we know it is largely a marketing construct, and that stories that deliberately jab at our Fear-response can be found pretty much everywhere.
This is why I decided to go with my favourite metaphor; food) and hone in on the precept that Horror is not a story type, but a spiceΒ (or indeed a series of differently flavoured spices with differing properties) that can be sprinkled in lightly or ladled in heavily to p...