Spooooooky Halloween Post About Horror Movies
The modern horror film begins in 1968, rather spectacularly, in August, with Peter Bogdanovich’s Targets. It’s a great movie about an oddly blank young man who goes about his day, murders his family, and then does a mass shooting at a drive-in-theatre. This is all intercut with scenes in which Boris Karloff, as the aging B-horror actor who will (eventually) stop the man’s rampage, contemplates retiring from acting. His sort of terror, the film implies, is over, and the new scary thing is the person whose evil is depthless, pointless, unromantic.