See, cuz, horror films are really important to me. I'm not talking about the piss-poor ultra-hip star vehicle mealy-mouthed crap that passes for horror today.
I'm talking "Saw", "Evil Dead", "Dawn of the Dead", "The Exorcist", "The Shining", "Duel", "Jaws" (yes, Virginia, "Jaws" was a horror film and Mr. Spielberg is not a nice man), "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (but none of its sequels), "Halloween" (ditto), "The Thing" (Carpenter's), "The Fly" (Cronenberg's), and so on.
I can go into the whys and the wherefores and the psychobabble, but basically I appreciate having my existential anxieties made flesh and ripped apart on screen. "Dehumanized consumer zombie must EAT YOUR BRAINS!" Love that shit.
I thought the Age of Quality Horror had come and gone, but now there's a new hope. First off, Peter Jackson has just moved into the "richer than God" tax bracket and if you think he's all about the hobbits, you're sadly mistaken. Mr. Jackson: help...george...romero...
Secondly, we're finally getting some directors with at least the right attitude, if not the talent to back it up. Eli Roth sounds like he's on the right track.
Here we are now, entertain us.