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Why Halloween is a scary movie: Halloween takes something safe and usual and makes it scary. Something that's supposed to be all right and proper. Suburbia. Clean middle-class homes with wall-to-wall carpeting and potted plants. Where the things that are wrong or bad are pushed under the carpet, and everyone is always smiling and happy and keeps their lawn cut and tries to keep to their own business. Suburbia was originally intended to be a little bit of isolation for everyone, and little country house and a little bit of fields. So you could be alone among everything and everyone, but not really alone. Not the scary kind of alone you get in the country, but not suffocated like you get in the city. But that's what makes it so scary. Scarier than in the country, where you know it's hopeless that someone will come from the start. You KNOW that someone is just across the hedge. You KNOW that if they came to the window right now, they'd see and get help. But they never do. They never see or hear anything. Because it's not just the isolation of suburbia, it's the attitude of the people living there. They shut their eyes to everything that's not "their" business. They work hard at not noticing the imperfections of the people and situations around them. Halloween knows how suburbanites think. They know how to manipulate the deep lonliness and fear that comes from living in this place. It's not technology or the modern age that's killing the good things in humanity little by little. It's suburbia. And Halloween just makes it a literal killing. Post a comment in response: |
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