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He is seen in the likeness above in a rare, 19th century woodcut. This
image was rumoured to have been
commissioned after a bout of unpleasantness
in the White Chapel district of London. Do enjoy your stay and peruse our many, varied offerings, much of which cannot be found elsewhere!
:: Today's soundtrack: Joy Division "Novelty" ::
Recently, the movie I Know What You Did Last Summer was making the rounds on my local cable stations. Now, I had never actually sat down and forced myself to watch this thing the whole way through, and in fact, was content to live out my entire life without ever having done so, but when a film is rounding about TBS and/or UPN, there is just no escaping it. The movie becomes like contracting chicken pox as a child or that crazy aunt or uncle who just won't leave, so you may as well buckle down and accept it as fate. You are going to watch this movie and that's that. So I thought, well, Sarah Michelle is in it, and even in her early Buffy days, like season 1-ish Buffy, so it was, you know, before she got really uncomfortably skinny, so I though, eh what the Hell.
As I watched this slasher movie, I came to a realization. That realization is this: eventually all holidays will have a horror movie attached to them. It's true and you know it.
I Know What You Did Last Summer took place on the Fourth of July. X-mas has Silent Night, Deadly Night, New Year's Eve has its New Year's Evil, Valentine's Day has Valentine, and Halloween has... Halloween. Did any of the Leprechaun movies take place on St. Patrick's Day? I'm not certain. Hmmmm...
It's a slow, but eventual trend. And what's to happen to the quality of the films once the more major holidays are already taken ad nauseum? There are only so many evil serial killer mom films you can make for Mother's Day before you start to repeat yourself. I imagine we'll be seeing psychotic rampaging rodents in a frightening Groundhog's Day (they'll make you afraid of your shadow!) and also a The Earth Day Horror (Mother Earth is back and she's pissed!) before not too long. Think about it, if the steaming piles o' dog doo like 8-Legged Freaks and Urban Legend can get themselves made without the added hook of a holiday tie-in, just think how easy it'll be.
I guess it's just easy for screenwriters to come up with slasher flicks based around some sort of central theme. Ironic tortures or deaths are difficult enough to come up with, so I suppose adding in a holiday back drop is a tempting cure for writer's block. Although, I do find the chilling tales about folks who kill because they are just plain crazy more appealing than killing due to the fact that one year ago today a car-ful of beer-swilling teens ran him down on Old Mountain Road and mistook him for dead.
