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Cardin concentrates mostly on a gore-inspired sense of horror, but, as has been noted, not everyone responds to blood-n-guts that strongly. Everyone, though, has something that inspires horror for them, and I wonder if the transcendent mechanism really relies so much on the images themselves as the somatic reaction of the watcher? The actual sensation of horror opens them more fully into the nexus of body and emotion, temporarily suspending the false separation of the two, and by this union making transcendence/gnosis possible?
And while Cardin makes it clear that he is speaking of "horror" as distinct from "terror," I wonder if movie-inspired terror could have a similar effect? Not the cheap "BOO!" that startles the viewer, but that creeping dread that follows them home and sits at the foot of their bed while they try to sleep (the effect many horror directors yearn for, but few achieve). I know many people didn't find it frightening at all, but my first viewing of The Blair Witch Project put me into an altered state that lasted well into the next morning, and which reappeared each time I watched it until I finally became desensitized.
Assuming the horror/transcendence connection can exist, any thoughts on how one might facilitate/use it?
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