fc106 - mental illness in horror

Published: June 19, 2017, midnight

b'Horror has not always treated the mentally ill very well. Many filmmakers twist notions of \\u201ccrazy\\u201d into varying degrees of evil, but rarely with any real thought to the pathology behind it.\\n\\nSome films and filmmakers make an attempt to examine illness and mine it for both humanity and fear, since nearly all illnesses of any kind are marked by both. Here are our five (OK, maybe six) favorite films dealing in mental illness.'