Is this another example of ruin or in fact some sort of environmental semiology?
Horror films have often tapped into this tragic notion of the natural, an aspect that was inherited from Romanticism, having first passed a pop culture filter. This is something that has always attracted me (you only have to consider films such as Friday the 13th or The BlairWitch Project, to give just two examples). There are two or three specific aspects of B movies that sum up quite neatly the questions that interest me which I have already mentioned. Firstly, these films tend to employ an imagery which is created for immediate consumption, inherently tied in to the moment in question, and which therefore normally ages badly. This is related to what I was saying earlier about obsolete images which remain in our vocabulary, our memories; it would also tie in with the idea of ruin. Secondly, due to their own sense of precariousness and their awareness of this, they put forward plot lines which are somewhat simplistic, loaded with clichés and reference points, covering up deficiencies
