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In 1979, CBS aired a made-for-TV special called “The Horror Show,” and it changed my life forever. Written and directed by Time Magazine film critic Richard Schickel and hosted by Anthony Perkins, it served as a well-curated primer for a genre that would soon become my obsession. While I consider it a transformative piece of media (one that I’d recommend showing to curious young film fans), as I got older, I came to realize that Schickel played a little fast and loose with his definition of horror. Why, for instance, did he heavily feature François Truffaut’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s science-fiction classic “Fahrenheit 451?” And, most bafflingly, how did Douglas Trumbull’s spacebound tragedy “Silent Running” qualify as horror? Both films are set in dystopian futures, and, sadly, Truffaut’s picture might qualify as horror nowadays since it appears the United States has arrived at the fascist destination Bradbury warned us about. “Silent Running,” however, is pure, melancholic sci-fi…
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