Behind the Horror: Blind
In another of our special on-going “Behind the Horror” series, The Last Knock evaluates the use (or misuse?) of blind characters.
From Peeping Tom to The Hills Have Eyes 2, and from The Sentinel to the most recent addition, Don’t Breathe, blindness has been an oft-used theme in horror.
Exploitation or Exaltation?
We take a look at many of the films in the unexpected blind sub-genre. The goal: To discover what works, what doesn’t, and how trope-filled stories with blind characters become.
Most important, does using a blind character result in exploitation?
As horror cinema does regularly, what may appear to be something damaging and inappropriate usually becomes the opposite.
Even so, we set out to find what horror films build the best stories around blind character. Because, quite often, being blind is never really treated as a detriment. Instead, blindness may be what saves a character, or gives a person that extra special something to rise above.
Plus, we hope to present horror films with blind-centric characters you may have missed.
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