One scene Art-Horror

Can Art-Horror be present in just one scene? Can an indivual scene be considered art-horror even if the rest of the movie considered as a whole does not convey the criteria needed to fit Carroll’s idea of art-horror? Can it elicit the same emotion in the viewer? If a single scene can convey art-horror does it fulfill Carroll’s idea of what the objective of a horror movie should be? For example he has said “These events constructed to move the audience rhetorically to the point that one entertains the idea that unavowed, unknown, perhaps concealed and inexplicable forces rule the universe.” Must this be true throughout the whole movie?
I did feel certain art- horror emotions during a couple scenes in the movie I Walked with a Zombie. The best scene for this was the ending when Wes let Jessica out and followed her in the woods to kill her with the arrow from the statue of St. Sebastian. Then running away into the ocean to escape crossroads or something else. In this scene I felt there to be an immediate threat from a force that was unknown. A force that was guiding everyone’s actions even when Wes killed Jessica. The ominous beat of the voodoo drums in the background set the stage voodoo’s involvement at the beginning of the scene. The doll that looked like Jessica which was being pulled and then Jessica started walking towards the door or for me she was being pulled to the door. One could say that this was coincidence until it shows Jessica being stopped by the fence and consequently the doll being stopped. The main voodoo man who is in charge of this ritual whispers something to his assistant which, I assumed to be a possible way to help the ritual keep going which was how to get Jessica to out. I assumed that they found their man and Wes walked up to the gate to let her out and it showed the doll continuing to move as did Jessica. Wes follows her into the woods after grabbing the arrow. The Jessica voodoo doll is then pierced with an arrow and then Wes kills Jessica with the arrow. I am assuming that the voodoo ritual took place first and then the actions of the characters happened at the same time or right after due to the fact that the voodoos rituals were always showed first in the examples that I have just outlined. This voodoo force to me was impure and crossroads was the tool of voodoo. When he was going after Wes who was holding Jessica, I believed there to be a danger presented by Crossroads who was disgusting. Voodoo was an unknown force to me which, was inflicting it’s victims by taking away their free will. Wes’s reaction when he saw crossroads was a lot different than when Mr. Holland saw Crossroads walking to his house. Mr. Holland commands Crossroads to go away while Wes does not speak a word but, instead is forced without a fight into the ocean and into his death. It is as if Wes sees him as a monster and is horrified due to the immediate danger and to the fact in which he came out of his spell and realized that just killed Jessica. Did he commit suicide because he realized what he had just done? Carroll has said that, “I am interested in the emotional response that horror is supposed to elicit. I have approached this issue by assuming that the audience’s responses to the monsters in works of horror are ideally intended to run parallel to and often to be cued by the emotional responses of the relevant fictional characters to monsters.”
There is no cohesive monster or some can argue no monster at all throughout the story but, there was a not so right atmosphere and a single question of what is wrong with Jessica throughout the whole movie. Is she living or is she dead. Aside from the scene in which I had just discussed and two others including the stairwell scene and the trek to Haumfort, there are limited examples that at best show that Voodoo might be the monster in the form of an unnatural evil force. The stair well scene and the trek scene are still very short of eliciting carrols idea of art-horror emotion. The best examples that may show voodoo being the monster who controls free will, include the dinner with Wes, Mr. Holland, and Stacy where everyone is having a decent meal with the conversation turning very slightly sour but, as soon as the voodoo drums start up the conversation turns very blunt and very nasty very quickly. When Mr. Holland and Jessica are having their serious relationship discussion the drums beat in and the conversation takes a very obvious turn toward dark pecimissm. Also there is the question posed by Stacy’s boss at the very beginning which sets the tone for movies and a possible question “Do you believe in witch craft?”. At the end scene discussed above there is still no conclusion that the monster inside of crossroads has been the menace all along.
Art-horror can exist in only one scene even if the movie as a whole does not include it. It depends somewhat on the type of viewer you are and what you pay attention too. The lack of cohesion for a monster throughout the story definitely takes away from the intensity in emotion that I think most people will feel in this end scene but, for an average viewer who is not trying to look very closely at the film or scrutinize it will not have very much emotion taken away due to the lack of cohesion or a specific monster targeted out. This will be true if other things such as atmosphere play a greater roll.