249 Index abandonment, 37, 239 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), 3, 231 abuse, 9–10, 37, 60, 53, 161–77 accountability, 2, 7, 87, 92–99, 110 adaptation, 3, 4, 10, 11, 137, 162, 221, 241 Adorno, Theodor, 11, 160, 232–35 aesthetic interpretation, 4 aesthetics, 4, 5, 10, 11, 14, 16, 17, 38, 39, 84, 173, 180, 187–88, 231–33, 236–37, 241 aggression, 6, 21, 57–58, 150 Aja, Alexandre, 102–18 Alice (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master), 2 alienation, 8, 121–35 aliens, 35, 236 Alien vs. Predator (2004), 3 Althusser, Louis, 8, 105–7, 118, 128 Amanda (Saw series), 44 America, 3, 8–10, 57–70, 81–82, 96, 102–4, 107–9, 111, 113–19, 121–35, 137–55, 162–64, 167–77, 200, 203–4, 231 Angel, 7–8, 86–101 Angelus (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel ), 7, 86–87, 89–90 anger, 6, 58, 65, 69 animal, 3, 22, 93–94, 205 anxiety, 2, 18, 19, 26, 102–3, 132, 163, 213, 220 Aristotle, 33–34, 44, 69 art, 10–11, 14–16, 18, 33, 36, 106–7, 142, 148, 152–53, 165, 180, 182–83, 194, 196, 199–200, 202, 206–7, 210–11, 229, 231–37, 239 “art-horror,” 3, 5, 33–41, 60. See also natural horror assumptions, 5, 27, 33, 139, 161, 199, 236 Atlantic Paranormal Society, The (TAPS), 73–74 audience, 2, 4, 6, 10, 11–12, 15–17, 18, 20, 22, 25, 34, 39, 43, 47, 50, 53, 55, 59, 60, 77 authority, 19, 63, 65, 66, 115, 116, 165, 167, 171, 172, 176, 236 autonomy, 6, 46, 50, 215, 223 avant-garde art, 11, 148, 155, 231–32, 234 avian flu, 18. See also flu pandemic Baby Firefly (The Devil’s Rejects), 49, 51 Baier, Annette, 27 barbarism, 112 Baudrillard, Jean, 76 Beauchamp, Christine, 91 beauty, 10, 39, 84, 180, 182–83, 186–88, 194, 196, 211, 222, 241 250 Index belief, 17–18, 27–28, 74, 80, 81, 115, 209, 236 Big Daddy (Land of the Dead), 8, 122–23, 126–27, 133–35 Big Lebowski, The, 33 biological terrorism, 3 Birds, The, 5, 19–20, 20–24, 26, 28, 29, 39, 122 Black Cat, The, 9, 137–56 Bobby Carter (The Hills Have Eyes), 8, 112–13, 116 bourgeois, 103, 106, 114, 115, 116–18, 200, 231 Brain That Wouldn’t Die, The, 38 Brenda Carter (The Hills Have Eyes), 8, 112–13, 116 bricolage, 3, 7, 80–81, 182 Bride of Frankenstein, The, 11, 212–26, 231. See also Frankenstein brutality, 6, 58, 69, 108, 177, 217 Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel), 7, 86, 86–99 Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 7, 86, 86–99 Buffyverse, 87–88, 91 Cabin Fever, 3 Call of Cthulu, The, 38 camp sensibility, 11, 229–42 cannibalism, 15, 109–10, 118, 122–23, 126–27, 131, 135, 186, 195 Cantor, Paul A., 5, 9, 137–60, 245 capitalism, 8, 118, 121–36 capital punishment, 68 Capote, Truman, 4, 6–7, 57–71 Caravaggio, 15 Carroll, Noël, 2, 15, 24–25, 27, 34, 37, 60, 88, 104–5, 122 Carter family (The Hills Have Eyes), 108, 110–18 chaos, 3, 124, 206 characterization, 61, 68, 88–89, 93–94, 96, 105, 111–12 Child’s Play, 23, 235 Chiller, 3 Christine, 23 cinematic genre, 3 civilized, 8, 108, 112, 114, 115, 202 civil laws, 63 Civil War (American), 82 Clarke, Gerald, 58 class, 8–9, 106, 108, 114, 118, 165, 172, 175, 200, 202, 203, 209, 210 struggle, 8–9, 104, 106–11, 121–35 cliches, 3, 224 Clover, Carol J., 2, 107, 109–11, 113 Clutter family, 57–59, 65 code, 6, 46–47 Cokal, Susann, 5, 10, 187–98, 245 collapse, 3, 19, 147, 177, 204 Collingwood parents (The Last House on the Left), 44, 46–47 commodification, 10 common sense, 17, 19, 22, 25 community, 58, 61, 66–67, 68, 236 Connor (Angel), 90 conscience, 7, 86, 87 consumerism, 48, 122, 232 contradiction, 19, 89, 107, 115, 124, 133–34 control, 2, 10, 49, 50, 53 Cook (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), 50–51 Cordelia Chase (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel), 87, 98 corruption, 5, 15, 37–38, 166, 172 Craven, Wes, 102–3, 111–14, 116, 240 creativity, 2, 11, 233 crime, 45, 46, 59, 60, 65, 69, 109, 141–42, 179–84, 219 Cronenberg, David, 28, 192 cruelty, 35, 42–44, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52...