NP - Martin Amis on Horror Films

[David Morris]

http://tomshone.blogspot.com/2012/07/quote-of-week-martin-amis.html

"As the credits rolled on Child's Play 3, I felt no urge or prompting
to go out and kill somebody. And I also knew why. It's nothing to
boast about, but there is too much going on in my head for Chucky to
gain sway in there. Probably the worst that Chucky could do to one is
to create an appetite to see more Chucky, or more things like Chucky.
What we have to imagine is a mind that, on exposure to Chucky, is
already brimful of Chucky and things like Chucky. Then, even if you
mix in psychopathology, stupidity, more deformation, dreams of
omnipotence nd sadism, and whatever else, Chucky is unlikely to affect
anything but the style of your subsequent atrocities. Murderers have
to have something to haunt them: they need their internal
pandemonium."
— Martin Amis, 'Blown Away', The New Yorker, 1994