Outside

As enlightening and informative as the debate on torture-horror has been in the horror blogosphere and its surrounding environs–and I’m really happy to say that the ratio of light to heat that’s been generated by the discussion is staggeringly lopsided in the former’s favor–it’s also quite useful to hear the perspective of somebody who isn’t a genre junkie. So take a look at humor blogger Jim Treacher’s thoughts on Wolf Creek, a movie he finds both good and–surprisingly–not particularly graphic at all, except in an emotional sense. He makes it sound like nothing so much as the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a film I’m obviously quite fond of. Very, very interesting.