Re: [HoE] Assorted

[Phil <pames@mindspring.com>]

At 01:57 AM 7/29/99 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Re: Killer tomatoes and camp.
>
>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


<shrug> I'm not saying the killer tomatos were scary. I'm saying you could
certainly MAKE them that way, however. We've got armies of bloody zombies
building cities across the Mississippi. Restraint has very little to do
with it. It's not the same genre as Deadlands, either. It's
post-apocalyptic horror; evil's face has been revealed, and it's all
smooshy, as opposed to deadlands, where it looks like your neighbor. It's a
matter of approach, and how you care to build an atmosphere.


Phil