The Horror Pod Class Presents: Scream 2 With Director Clayton Scott
Tyler: Hey everybody this is Tyler Unsell and…
Orrin: This is Orrin Grey
Tyler: And Welcome to The Horror Pod Class
Tyler: Every two weeks Orrin and I get to gather to discuss how our featured horror movie might be used in the classroom. Tonight we are joined by Director Clayton Scott whose debut Below the Fold is quick moving police procedural set here in missouri. Congratulations on the release Clayton and welcome to pod man!
BUT FIRST
What Are We Watching/Reading Excited About
Tyler: The Alpines, The Deep by Nick Cutter, Yellow FRIGGIN Jackets
Orrin: Whole lotta nothing, though I caught Clayton’s movie Below the Fold just before this show because I missed it at Panic Fest.
Time For Scream 2
Essential Question. Does Scream 2 accurately point out that Greek Tragedies were the first horror films.
https://eidolon.pub/horrific-catharsis-f3375653a4d5
Tragedy makes up for its lack of graphic displays of violence through its use of the ekkyklema, a mechanism used to wheel dead bodies onto the stage.
The ekkyklema is often used to evoke an emotional reaction from the Chorus, the internal audience of Greek tragedy. But the thrill and shock of seeing the gruesome bodies is clearly also aimed at the theater audience. The sight of Cassandra and Agamemnon’s bodies at the end of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon shocks the Chorus and prompts them to rebel against Clytemnestra, the murderer. The external audience, however, already knows that the characters are dead. The effect the ekkyklema produces for them is revulsion at the butchered bodies.
The miasma of the House of Prescott
Ok so I think an underated element of the scream movies is that they often present a character doing something smart. CiP gail in the recording studio
Conflation of the Horror and The Tragedy Mask
Lesson Learned: Student Loans turn people into serial killers
LOL Owen Wilson
So the commentary on Black horror cinema is interesting in the context of horror noire
BANACA
Also I love Jamie Kennedy. Prove me wrong
Was Deweys Music always twin peaks?
4 Corners
Tyler: Urban Legend, Wishmaster 2
Orrin: Black Christmas, Urban Legends: Final Cut
Clayton: American Pie 2, Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Tyler has been the editor in chief of Signal Horizon since its conception. He is also the Director of Monsters 101 at Truman State University a class that pairs horror movie criticism with survival skills to help middle and high school students learn critical thinking. When he is not watching, teaching or thinking about horror he is the Director of Debate and Forensics at a high school in Kansas City, Missouri.