At its best, it intertwines the two, suggesting that one begets the other, and it holds a mirror up to 2019, forcing us to wonder what will be unleashed by the current horrors in our country. One of the many remarkable elements of AMC’s “The Terror: Infamy” is how it balances a history lesson with the parts of it that you would never learn about in school. At a certain age, we all learn that there are real monsters out there, which is often right around the time that the cinematic ones lose some of their power to work their way into our nightmares. Perhaps creators worry that the true horrors that man has inflicted on man in the past would steal focus from their original creations. Literature has often used major chapters in history as the backdrop for horror stories, but it’s not seen as often in original films or TV series.
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