Re: [HoE] Assorted

[Phil <pames@mindspring.com>]

At 09:10 PM 7/28/99 -0400, you wrote:

>
>Re: Killer tomatoes and camp.
>
>	It seems to me there is a general misperception on this listserv regarding
>the nature of camp.  Camp is not, and should not be, silly- rather, camp is
>the art (or the accident) of being serious, yet not being taken seriously. 
>Killer tomatoes are not campy.  They are, as nearly as I can define them,
>"Slapstick Horror", and have no place in the Hell on Earth universe.
>	The best camp is that which causes the audience to never really be *sure*
>if you're serious or not.  "The Quick and the Dead" is a great example of
>this; for an example of camp in a post-apocalpyse film, check out
>"Six-String Samurai", an independent film now out on video.
>
>B.D. "high camp" Flory


Are you SERIOUSly suggesting that there's no slapstick, in, say, Army of
Darkness? Come on. No place? There's certainly a place for it. And the
killer tomatos. I rather imagine that the typical posse's reaction is like
"Killer Tomatos? Yeah riiiigh -Oh sh*T!" 

Phil