i ain't nuthin' but a gorehound

[alonewiththemoon]

I am not usually a fan of the movie reviews of Stephanie Zacharek, movie critic at Salon, but I love the opening sentence of her review of Dario Argento's new film Mother of Tears:

We've lost something in the culture of horror movies when a good, solid evisceration at the hands of slobbery, bloodthirsty demons has come to seem old-timey and quaint, a comforting relic of drive-in gorefests and '70s-era Times Square double features.

 Yeah, they just don't eviscerate them like they used to...  I'm not even being sarcastic, it's true.  The other big change in horror films, I think, is that good versus evil has really faded away in favor of terror by random psychotics, which in turn means plot has essentially faded away as well.  If your villain has no motive besides being insane, there's really no need for a plot. And thus the horror genre has become stupid.