‘Shock Value’ author Jason Zinoman: Driven toward fear
It's a hot summer morning, and Jason Zinoman is standing on sacred ground for horror films. The D.C. native is in Georgetown, perched on the very spot where the genre moved from the tawdry backwaters of pop culture into the mainstream of American life.
Of course, the author of "Shock Value," a new book about how fright films made this transition, is standing at the top of the "The Exorcist" steps.
The steep stairwell at Prospect and 36th streets NW, dropping down sharply to M Street and Canal Road, with the Potomac River and the Key Bridge in the near distance, has become a touchstone for movie fans since the 1973 film in which Father Karras (Jason Miller) hurls himself out of a window and down, down the steps, apparently freeing a possessed child of a demon at the cost of his own life.
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