The Thrill of Repulsion by William Burns

Author:William Burns
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2020-12-23T00:00:00+00:00

Horror’s challenging subject matter and revolutionary approach inspires visionaries who are looking to push the boundaries of a medium that quickly became conservative and sophomoric, exchanging experimentation and substance for product placement and plagiarized repetition.

13.

Inhumanoids

The vast majority of ’80s animation consisted of extended commercials to sell action figures and video games to young consumers dazzled by the influx of cool products during the Reagan years. Yet being a “toy property” didn’t necessarily mean that a cartoon series couldn’t be weird and intense, though that often did not bode well for ratings or product sales. Case in point: the Hasbro-owned and Toei-animated series Inhumanoids. The show details the battle between the Earth Corps, a combination science-military unit, and the Inhumanoids, a breed of enormous, subterranean, god-like creatures seeking to conquer the planet. Earth Corps gets assistance against these monstrosities from elemental and supernatural beings who are the Inhumanoids’ primal arch-enemies. Combining the massive destructiveness of the kaiju with the Lovecraftian concept of the Great Old Ones, Inhumanoids are the most furiously evil Saturday (actually Sunday) morning cartoon creations ever. Add on a ruthless corporation looking to exploit the Inhumanoids for profit, a corrupt politician, and Cold War fears of mutual annihilation, and you have a much more mature and horrific animated series than, say, The Snorks.

The series began as short episodes for Sunday morning animated programming in an anthology called Super Sunday, but was then spun off into its own show, which ended after eight episodes. Those eight episodes featured some of the most graphically violent and disgusting scenes in children’s animated programming, with limbs being cut off, facial disfigurations, and deaths in almost every episode. The best Inhumanoid was D’Compose, a gigantic, decaying monster with a hinged skeletal chest plate that was used as a jail to contain his human prey. Headquartered in his tomb-like realm of Skellweb, D’Compose could mutate people, rot materials, and resurrect the dead with his touch. In one episode, D’Compose uses the acid-destroyed corpse of a deceased character to create “Nightcrawler,” an undead monster, and in another episode transforms teenage members of the Cult of Darkness into marauding zombie punks. The strangest episode is when D’Compse falls skull over heels in love with a resurrected dead woman. Unfortunately, the toy line failed and the show was cancelled, but not before gloriously scarring any child that happened to tune in after church on a Sunday morning.

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13 Demon Street

Is there a more tragic figure in horror history than Lon Chaney Jr.? Burdened with his father’s legacy but not quite possessing his talent, Chaney Jr. became a real-life Lawrence Talbot, cursed by the past and unable to create his own satisfying future. Chaney Jr. was able to eke out a living from his associations with horror cinema, but the toll it took on his mind, body, and soul are clearly evident to anyone who watches his later films. Occasionally, he would rise to the occasion and give a credible performance to display what could have been. Chaney Jr. introduced each episode of the Swedish horror TV series 13 Demon Street with his trademark pathos.

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