Re: [HoE] Assorted

["B.D. Flory" <bflory@frontiernet.net>]

> >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

1) Please see my post.  Not once does it mention Army of Darkness. 
Obviously, I did not suggest any such thing, seriously or otherwise.

2) There is a place for slapstick, but not in Deadlands.  From the writer's
guidelines: "The 'official' style of Deadlands is somewhere between horror,
Spaghetti, and camp. The latter is the one people tend to forget most.
Remember though that a little humor adds contrast to the horror and makes
it that much scarier."
								    ^^^^^			
Slapstick and restraint tend to be concepts exclusive to each other.

The ideal put forward by the writer's guidelines for Deadlands seems to
indicate  the camp is a means to an end, while horror/terror is the end
itself.  Tell me, Sir.  Were you afraid when you watched attack of the
killer tomatoes?  Even in the way that horror movies make one afraid?

B.D. "<sigh>" Flory