Finally, a filmmaker brave enough to let the monster fuck
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Good, I think it'd be hard to sell that as real horror these days.
I think there would be ways - not so much by making the monster scary, more by focussing on the existential dread and rejection in visceral ways. Basically less jump scares and more philosophical gore.
It wouldn't tiktok well
So write it from the monsters perspective? Isn't that the point of the original? That people are the monsters?
Doesn't have to be the monsters perspective (though that could work). It just has to empathize with it - show the horror of being made of constituent parts that neither fit nor really work together, the awareness of its own broken and blasphemous existence. The understanding of everything being horribly wrong without any wrongdoing on its part. The wish for a real attempt at life that can never be fulfilled, and the fear of death that its body remembers and longs for.
Could be a neat allegory for the unnatural lives of modern society!
Oh I like that idea a lot.
The original is from the perspective of a younger guy on an expedition for glory, who runs into Frankenstein, who tells his story, which includes his monster, who then tells their story.
I started watching Nightmare Alley thinking it was a horror movie. Turns out I was right