Inês’s Reviews > Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us > Status Update

"Traumatic memories, the study indicated, are not processed as memories, but as present experiences, re-experienced and relived when triggered. Trauma is a trapped memory, experienced over and over again as if it were happening right now. What is a haunting, if not a trapped memory? (...) Haunting as cyclical, much like trauma."

Once again, everything goes back to IWTV and Claudia being the core of the series.

"Memory is reconstructive, our recollections amplified and coloured by our feelings." - EVERYTHING can be about Interview with the Vampire, and I don't even have to look that hard.