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echo: memories
to: JOE MACKEY
from: Mike Powell
date: 2022-02-13 10:36:00
subject: horror memories

>    A film with implied sex or violence is far better than the in-your-face
> films today.
>    When you have a couple in an embrace, or someone with with a big knife
> up to no good and

and an off-screen scream (don't forget that!) and...

> a fade out is far better than the other way.

Yes.  That left so much up to the imagination.  I think we lost a lot when
filmmakers decided to start pushing the envelope and seeing what they could
get away with.  What they think up is usually worse than, and also less
satisfying than, whatever could be imagined.

Mike


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