Tuesday, 18 May 2021

Tales from the Crypt: Robertson’s Phantasmagoria and the 18th Century Origins of Horror Cinema

quote [ Given how often horror is dismissed as a low-culture guilty pleasure, it might surprise you to hear that modern cinema was more or less invented because of it. That’s right—when the first Magic Lantern was invented around 1650, it wasn’t to immortalize the pensive expression of some seventeenth-century Daniel Day Lewis. ]

As I recall it was a horror film
[SFW] [tv & movies] [+1 Good]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:19amGMT]

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