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ALIEN INVASION

A melding of science fiction and horror in which extraterrestrial life forms come to Earth in order to…

 

* Colonize the planet

* Harvest humans for foodstuffs

* Enslave humanity

* Destroy the planet

* Use probes to perform uncomfortable sexual experiments

 

… among other nefarious objectives.

 

Examples: War of the Worlds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Plan 9 From Outer Space, the Day the Earth Stood Still

 

Slick, spiced space fruits and residual tentacle goo.

 

 

DIABOLICAL OFFSPRING

The passage into parenthood is, despite all its joys, often confusing, a little shocking, and sometimes frightening.

 

-- moreso for some parents than others.

 

Examples: the Bad Seed, the Omen, Rosemary’s Baby, and Alice, Sweet Alice

 

Baby sweetness and a touch of brimstone.

 

 

GORE-SHOCK

With its roots in the Grand Guignol, Gore-Shock is a transgressive art form, using visual depictions of graphic, horrendous violence to push the limits of social tolerance. In the words of Michael Arnzen, “Splatter films differ from typical horror films because they revel in the special effects of gore as an artform. They are part of postmodern art and depict postmodern condition as a vehicle for cultural transformation.”

 

Then again, these might be extreme gross-out flicks and nothing deeper.

 

Examples: Blood Feast, I Spit on Your Grave, Two Thousand Maniacs!

 

Pulpy, scorched, pork-like flesh, glistening entrails, and doughy skin with the coppery tang of blood, salty, sweaty musk, filth, and a huff of rusted machinery.

 

 

GOTHIC HORROR

The blueblood of the horror genre. Gothic horror borrows heavily from Victorian Romanticism: a dark, passionate sojourn into emotionally-driven aesthetic experience – reaching through gloom towards a vision of the sublime. Using sprawling, decay-riddled visuals, and lyrical narrative rife with suspense, awe, and dread, these films tell tales of tortured souls, long-buried secrets, rapid descents into depravity and madness, and grasping supernatural beings.

 

Examples: Vampyr, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Frankenstein, the Phantom of the Opera

 

Morbidly romantic, thick with murky melodrama, untouched by the centuries, and dust-rimed: Byzantine incense, benzoin, myrrh, bitter clove, spikenard, oud, and ancient balsam.

 

 

PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR

This is not the Monstrous Other; this is the fiend next door.

 

Examples: Psycho, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, the Collector, and Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte

 

It smells perfectly normal: a lovely, unassuming, traditional mid-20th century musk with something not quite right lying underneath.

 

 

ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

Brains? Brains.

 

Examples: Night of the Living Dead (and all things Romero-plus-Dead), 28 Days Later, Undead, Planet Terror

 

Swirls of red jelly and sugary white ooze.

 

 

Available now on the Dark Delicacies web site, and available at their brick & mortar shop once Friday night's trunk show gets going!

 

TRUNK SHOW INFO

Friday, July 17th

7 to 9pm

 

Dark Delicacies

4213 W. Burbank

Burbank, CA 91505

 

1-888-DARKDEL

1-818-556-6660

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