The other day I realized that horror cognoscenti will invariably inveigh against whatever is the dominant mode of horror at the time: slasher flicks, self-reflexive WB Stars in Peril movies, Sixth Sense-style creepy-kid or I-see-dead-people pictures, J-horror remakes/knockoffs, meat movies, whatever. I’m not sure if this means we’re too quick to turn on whatever’s popular or if whatever’s popular is too quick to turn crappy. Probably a bit of both.
