7 reasons
In the hopes of coming off as a healthy, developed person with a variety of interests (I’ve got fucking layers, man), I try to avoid writing back-to-back horror-related posts. But when I came home the other night from seeing Drag Me To Hell, still buzzing on a monster-movie high, I found a link a friend had passed along to me in my inbox, and I just had to respond.
For your reference, here it is: Examiner.com’s seven reasons why the horror genre is dying.
I set out to write a reasonable point-by-point rebuttal, but had to give up. I kept getting too mad. It’s not just that I disagree with the article’s thesis; I disagree with its entire value system. Every point I tried to make started out with quotes and analysis, and then devolved into, “Who the fuck watches movies this way?!”
So I scrapped it. Instead, I’m just going to offer my own list.
7 Reasons the Horror Genre Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You Very Much
Thanks for the concern, but I think we’ll survive.
I read the parental guides on IMDB to determine whether I can handle movies, and this line from the Midnight Meat Train is hilarious: “A person hits a guy’s head from the back with a hammer so hard his eyeballs are dislocated and pop out (Blood gushes and fills the floor of the train and we see his eyes pop out in a slow motion).”
It’s true! That happens!