5/17/2023 0 Comments Hms erebus and hms terror![]() ![]() ![]() And that informed the conversation about genre differently, because we don’t walk around thinking that we’re going to be in a horror movie all the time.” ![]() “We wanted to make sure that the source of horror was always subjective, that we were experiencing it from a character’s very subjective point of view. “Dave and I have an allergy to horror that writes for the audience, where it’s clear that the setup and unraveling of a horror set piece or moment is clearly just geared towards scaring the audience,” Hugh says. The death of a character won’t have any effect if an audience isn’t emotionally invested in them, especially given Hugh and Kajganich’s approach to cooking up scares. It’s ultimately this devotion to character, rather than genre, that makes The Terror as affecting as it is. It has been augmented by copious amounts of research, as well as the stunning discoveries of the wrecks of the Erebus and the Terror, which occurred respectively in 20, as writing and production were underway. The TV series is adapted from Dan Simmons’s eponymous 2007 novel, a fictionalized account of the lost expedition. The ships were last seen in late July, waiting for good conditions to cross into Lancaster Sound. Terror-yes, that was really the ship’s name-on a voyage to discover the Northwest Passage. In May of 1845, Captain Sir John Franklin led the H.M.S. Of course, we shouldn’t discount the inherent strangeness of the source material itself. Once you get fear off the table, you have a better shot at creating it.” “Really good horror is either fueled by anger, or it’s fueled by sadness. “When you think about good horror, it’s not fueled by fear,” says David Kajganich, creator of the show, and co-show-runner alongside Soo Hugh. Remarkably, AMC’s new series has none of the above-yet it’s still perhaps the most terrifying show to air in recent memory. Any series with a title like The Terror has certain expectations baked in: dissonant music, jump scares, a monster of the week, perhaps. ![]()
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