![]() Witness the novel and Broadway musical Wicked, which proposes that the Wicked Witch of the West herself wasn’t really wicked, only misunderstood.Īre we perhaps protesting too much? Of course it’s convenient if our children believe (what is in fact true) that there’s nothing scary under the bed or in the closet. More recently, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride offered horror moments of a somewhat more grownup sort, but again depicted a macabre vision of the uncanny that was more misunderstood than malevolent.Įven in grown-up culture there is an effort to humanize and rehabilitate our monsters. Even the macabre Halloweentown world of The Nightmare Before Christmas was more grotesque than malevolent, populated by ghoulish citizens who only wanted to put on a good show and scare everyone out of their wits without doing any real harm.
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