November 7, 2023
A horror story for climate zealots
By Nick Lopez
John Carpenter was a pretty amazing filmmaker in his early years. He took three pumpkins, a bag of leaves, a poorly tuned piano, a half-in-the-bag lead actor, bad lighting, and an awful script and turned all that into a cinematic masterpiece.
Halloween isn’t a cinematic masterpiece like Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon is...but for what John Carpenter was working with, he achieved an impressive financial and visual result.
But as creepy as John Carpenter’s Halloween was, the story...was dumb.
So much of the modern “horror” genre is dumb. Zombies and vampires and serial killers who don’t die — it’s all been done over and over again.
Most folks don’t think of Jack London when it comes to the authors of frightening stories, but you should. Because Jack London wrote one of the most unsettling and frightening stories ever told. It’s called “To Build a Fire.”
It’s a half-hour read, and it doesn’t have ghosts, werewolves, or possessed dolls. “To Build a Fire” is a horror story where the only thing that is going wrong is the subject of the story’s lack of imagination.
He is a man who has forgotten how to be afraid of the cold. He doesn’t imagine just how many degrees of frost he is facing.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/a_horror_story_for_climate_zealots.html
