Spielberg’s Poetics of Horror

Spielberg has as much of a long-standing relationship with the horror movie as he does with sci-fi and the war movie. It is with horror that he made his breakthrough, on TV with Duel and at the movies with Jaws, and he has returned to the genre on a regular basis, both as a director (Jurassic Park, The Lost World, War of the Worlds) and as a producer (Poltergeist, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Arachnophobia, The Haunting, Jurassic Park III, Super 8, Jurassic World). Even scenes from movies that d...