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October 26, 2009 - 4:11 pm

Is Horror Conservative?

John J. Miller at National Review makes the assertion that "Horror" is conservative. That the practitioners respect the writers and traditions that came before them, and inherent in the story is a warning against straying too far from the moral path.

Agree or disagree? What is the best "conservative" horror (story/book/movie) and what conservative lesson did it teach?

We'll talk to Miller at 3:30. Since he says he's been reading "Nightmare at 20,000 feet" to his kids before bedtime, I include the following video to set the mood:



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  • Josh in Puyallup wrote...
    Wizard of Oz
    As I kid, I thought the Wicked Witch was scary. Now thinking, that movie was a liberal horror flick. Some blonde gave a girl a pair of slippers that didn't belong to either of them.. The Wicked witch just wanted her sister's shoes back!
  • AJ McCarrell wrote...
    Here's my own horror flick about Obama!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zolc9pSIe5U
  • Conservative Babe wrote...
    Conservative Halloween?
    Humm... I do not know if horror itself is Conservative, but as a Conservative, my plan for an awesome Halloween include: shooting Zombies (zombie targets) at the gun range in costume. I realize that this may frighten some liberals out there, but my fellow Conservative Babes and I are looking forward to it! http://youngrepublicans.meetup.com/218/calendar/11434620/
  • miss adventures wrote...
    good one Josh!!
    All I have to say is I wish I could carry on a plane.
  • roomtemp wrote...
    Nope, horror is totally bipartisan.
    Just look at... well, you know, congress...

    "A flight not only from point A to point B, but also from the fear of reoccurring mental breakdown. Mr Wilson has that fear no longer. Though for the moment he is, as he has said, alone in this assurance."

    Serling is so, the man...

  • bpentium wrote...
    Shatner
    That creature looked like a cross between a wookie and an ewok. Now we know where Lucas got his ideas.
  • Snoqualmie G wrote...
    Maybe horror is conservative from a liberal point of view
    I could see how some movies you could say the killer was putting sinners out of their misery.. like the sleepaway camp movies, Angie the counsellor goes around killing all the female campers that don't cover up their naughty parts while they sleep or smoke pot or sneak off to have sex or just disrespect authority figures.. but I think they are written by liberals who see conservatives that way, as homicidal extremists who would love to kill off people who don't agree with them. So to answer the question, I don't think they're truly conservative as much as they are liberal portraits of those "right-wing extremists" who are so uptight about their repressed desires that they feel they need to go after all those free-spirited young progressives who just want to get high and make love not war, baby! Because if they (the evil right-wingers) can't experience free love then no one will!!!!
  • Snoqualmie G wrote...
    oh yea the environmental bent
    and I forgot.. usually the poor progressives who are slaughtered in these films by the close-minded conservatives are usually trying to shed their carbon-footprint by going back to nature, through camping or backpacking through europe or carpooling across the country in a fuel-efficent car or wearing as few clothes as possible (not only does that spare animals from being killed for clothing but it also prevents global warming from all those pesky evil profiteering sweatshop child slavery textile factories)






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