'Maybe what we really want is to spend time with our own death—to find intimacy with the one thing in reality we can’t ignore or avoid, before it comes to take our hand,' writes Gretchen Felker-Martin
. She writes about sexual revulsion, body horror, and how violence forms and fits into our livescame out on VHS. I’m dating myself, I know. What’s worse, I had to beg my parents to rent a tape player from the local independent video store so that I could watch it, staring in wonder at Spielberg and Industrial Light & Magic’s vision of a world, which until then, had lived for me only in paintings and books.
There’s an adrenaline rush to it, too. I’ve been cliff jumping many times, and the roar of the wind in your ears, the smack of freezing water—it’s the same rush you get watching disturbing grins paste themselves across the faces of the possessed in the unexpected box-office smash
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