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11-24-2014, 09:52 AM
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Not quite, but that might be semantic. "Revulsion" seems closer. "Disgust" implies to me a gross-out, which is often use by writers, I suppose, but is is a poor man's substitute for what should be a more cerebral response (though used correctly and sparingly it can enhance the effect). Horror requires an intellectual realisation of implications that reach far beyond your own personal safety. While terror is when there's something fearful on its way, horror is like the aftershock of the event: you're quite safe now, but in no way okay. The most extreme horror means you'll never be okay again.

You realise and understand what has happened, and it is horrible to contemplate. Existential horror is when the experience has re-educated you about reality, a comfortable veil of fiction has fallen to reveal a terrible reality behind it. One of the things I like about the Lovecraft stories is that the truths that the characters learn cannot be understood, so they are left permanently in that aftershock state and asymptote toward a mental state beyond insanity.


Ultimately what I mean is that it seems rather idiosyncratic for a family show to play with the idea that there is an afterlife, that it is the same for everyone no matter what you did in life, and the only reason grandpa is in hell is that you literally burned him yourself.
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