Next to porn, horror is often viewed as the scourge of the cinematic earth. Now, once you place this ready sentiment alongside the dictum that power corrupts absolutely, you wind up with an equation for the underdog potentially usurping the bully. In short, horror has the capacity (& quite often does) to undermine the standardized, complacent cinematic narrative. This is due, in part, to 1) the expectations of the genre to produce anything of relevance being extremely low, thus it oftentimes goes unchecked &, as such, the manacles referred to as production legislation aren't kept quite as tight as they are upon other genres & 2) horror's subject matter, which grants the genre free reign to forage in fields which other types of film fear to tread.

If nothing else, we don't see musicals as a whole serving their audiences with an unabashed, unrepentant metaphor for the human predicament, now do we?

What's my role in all this exactly? Well, I'm merely doing my ethical duty in helping to promote a subverted genre, lest we wake up one morning to find Steven Spielberg, with a bas-relief reading "Resident Dictator of Film" extending from his crowned temples, leaning over us, demanding that we choose between one of two options¾Forrest Gump or Titanic.

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