Umbrae
...and trailing entrails by itself is not dark.
Seeing the razor in your hand is not dark.
Hearing the steel against the strop - the an arc of blood on the tile in that pasty fluorescent lighting...in arterial real time...
That's dark.
Hitchcock said, “Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
Darkness triggers your imagination, and allows it to become a participant.
Gratuitous gore does not.
Solid symbolism is only necessary in an Apollonian world. In a Dionysian world, our imagination fills the voids – which may be vast.
Remember, Hitchcock shot "Psycho" in Black and White rather than color (one reason was cost, the other was it was too gory in color). the shower scene is 45 seconds long, contains 90 cuts and no violence is shown. A raising and falling knife, screaming, and bosco chocolate syrup. That’s it. Why is it so horrifying?
Because we ‘see’ what is never shown – our imagination connects the dots and fills the voids.
Seeing the razor in your hand is not dark.
Hearing the steel against the strop - the an arc of blood on the tile in that pasty fluorescent lighting...in arterial real time...
That's dark.
Hitchcock said, “Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
Darkness triggers your imagination, and allows it to become a participant.
Gratuitous gore does not.
Solid symbolism is only necessary in an Apollonian world. In a Dionysian world, our imagination fills the voids – which may be vast.
Remember, Hitchcock shot "Psycho" in Black and White rather than color (one reason was cost, the other was it was too gory in color). the shower scene is 45 seconds long, contains 90 cuts and no violence is shown. A raising and falling knife, screaming, and bosco chocolate syrup. That’s it. Why is it so horrifying?
Because we ‘see’ what is never shown – our imagination connects the dots and fills the voids.