tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post3364854476349344627..comments2024-03-24T00:16:17.304-07:00Comments on Storming the Ivory Tower: Who Killed the World? or, Immortan Joe Crossing the AlpsSam Keeperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00863236889998956170noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-12117059408149092742015-08-07T22:54:51.919-07:002015-08-07T22:54:51.919-07:00I don't think Picnic at Hanging Rock is horror...I don't think Picnic at Hanging Rock is horror, nor that the landscape in it is hostile - though it is sublime, in the terms of this article. I don't think those who vanished were "consumed" so much as "translated" into the sublime.Heliopausenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56230747868041478.post-866219468571205242015-08-04T06:15:29.716-07:002015-08-04T06:15:29.716-07:00I want to pick up on something that Sam Keeper sai...I want to pick up on something that Sam Keeper said "Nature is a hostile force in the world which possibly makes sense for an Australian director". Then zie goes on to dismiss this idea as being essentialist and glib. However the idea of the natural landscape being a hostile force is a theme that is frequent in Australian horror movies.<br /><br />Picnic at Hanging Rock a 1975 classic of Australian horror is this at it’s core. The australian bush as fundamentally inhuman and hostile. The characters apparently consumed up by the landscape itself. Likewise movies like Razorback, The Cars That Ate Paris and Wolf Creek all draw from a dread of the bush and outback.<br /><br />Indeed when I look over the list of Australian horror movies they are overwhelmingly set in the outback and more often than not take their name from a location or natural element. Even the subtitles of the Mad Max movies follow this trend “The Road Warrior”, “Beyond Thunderdome” and “Fury Road”.<br />Q the Platypushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06305995110257447864noreply@blogger.com