# The Naked and the Undead

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- Authors: [Cynthia Freeland](https://www.bookquiver.com/cynthia-freeland)
- Publisher: Routledge
- ISBN: 978-03-6731-874-1
- Pages: 340
- Published: 2019-09-13
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Horror is often dismissed as mass art of lowbrow entertainment that produced only shirt-term thrills. Horror films can be bloody, gory and disturbing, so some people argue that they have bad moral effects, inciting viewers to imitate cinematic violence or desensitizing them to atrocities. In The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Ho