![]() And he discovered something fascinating: he could pinpoint the exact decade when Old Horror turned to New Horror, when Bela Lugosi and adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe stories turned to film-making that was grittier, more confrontational, and wasn’t afraid to break taboos (or, for that matter, the box office). These questions led him to take a closer look at horror, not only to investigate why we like to be scared, but how horror grew from a much disparaged genre, confined to drive-in theaters and shunned by critics, to an ambitious art form that has conquered the multiplex. Where did this guilty pleasure come from? And why did so many people share it? ![]() New York Times theater critic Jason Zinoman would be the first person to admit that his new book, “Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror” originated in an anxiety that there was something a little embarrassing about loving horror movies as much as he did. ![]()
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