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Tolstoy said all happy families are alike and unhappy families were all unhappy in their own way. For Tony Williams all unhappy families are alike and happy families are a lie told by the capitalist patriarchy to keep us from creating a new kind of society (and thats what ruined the Bolshevik revolution, btw). Families in horror movies sounded like a juicy subject. Families are endlessly interesting always. This is basically what makes the TV show Intervention so addictive. On the surface its formulaic: somebody is addicted, they do an intervention and they either do or dont go to treatment where they either do or dont succeed. What makes each episode unique is the family dynamics. Thats the type of thing I was expecting in this book, a look at fictional families in horror movies and how they worked. But the author doesnt really seem to see families as collections of people he looks at with empathy.Theres not too many movies that earn the authors approval--especially after the 70s. Two movies that get his greatest praise are...wait for it...the 80s movie of Flowers in the Attic and Exorcist II: The Heretic. So obviously hes not always in line with mainstream opinion. That itself isnt a problem. If somebody can find something great in something I thought was terrible, that can actually be great for me. The whole point of the analysis is to dive into the movies and find interesting things there.Unfortunately hes not really finding great things in individual movies. Its more like we hear about the one movie described over and over--the movie Williams would like to see where capitalism and the patriarchy are the real villains and the traditionally family is rejected. (At times I felt like I was reading an analysis of horror movies done by the Marxist peasants from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.) All movies are compared to this one narrative. Things that fit are praised, things that dont are dismissed or criticized. (There is an afterword to the new addition that talks about movies of the last couple of decades thats even more OTT in its contempt--the Monty Python peasants are replaced by the SNL Jebidiah Atkinson character without the snappy one-liners.) To me this kind of criticism is backwards. It starts with an idea and projects it onto the source material instead of looking at the source material for what its saying in its own context.So all the analysis didnt leave me much interested in seeking out any of the movies again or for the first time. (Exorcist II is, after all, praised for looking forward to a world where the whole genre whithers away because the conservative devil is replaced with the New Age good locusts stuff--and I dont want the genre to whither away!) There were also a number of times where he happened to drop some analysis of a moment or movie that I remembered that didnt seem accurate. Anybody can mis-hear a quote or remember something wrong, of course, but there was a number of times I was surprised at something like that. To choose one example, he casually states that the mother at the end of the movie Cujo is doomed to die because its too late to give her treatment for rabies. I dont remember getting that impression watching the movie and it doesnt fit with how rabies actually works. I think he maybe just prefers that ending because it avoids the family staying together. Which reminds me, he also slips in a really odd, imo, swipe at Steven Spielberg. I mean, of course he hates Spielberg. But he sneers at the directors infantile epiphanic visions of adult faces beaming childlike wonder. Its almost too fitting that hed seem to be so angry at the idea of adults being capable of that kind of emotion. Supernatural plots conservative distractions from the true evil, all children are abused and strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
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