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Jacob's Ladder/The Shining/The Thing/2001

I think Jacob's Ladder is among the best of this so-called genre, though I think it transcends it.

I find myself laughing at the Shining more than being scared by it. That's not necessarily a criticism.

I liked Carpenter's The Thing. The special effects have dated some, but I like its business-like approach to plot and characterization, and I think it creates a great mood of paranoid tension. And we all knew there was something wrong with that Quaker Oats guy.

The appearance of the monolith in the opening sequence in 2001 is, I think, one of the weirdest most unnervingly disjunctive moments in all of film. I think classing 2001 a horror film is right on. I think much of its potency comes from exploiting the fear of the unknown. I think it is, in a lot of ways, an extended exercise in clauster- and agoraphobia.

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