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William Blick
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May 2020
Introduction: The Horror Film as Purgation
Walter Benjamin said, “There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”
1 Barbarism is a form of a horror and each decade endures its own barbaric elements driven from the contemporary climate of sociological, political, and economic ills. Very often the nature of these ills has been technological and industrial developments, with the most benevolent or innocuous intentions, but create unforeseen damage to societies. Benjamin’s insight suggests the deeply destructive aspects of human nature and as Sartre also suggested in