The past decade as horror show: yet another blogger picks up the Gothic theme.
Smirking Chimp takes this step by step, beginning with well-known horrors: wars, disasters, the Great Recession, etc.
Next, RJ Eskow adds some horror movie tropes:
It's that final plot twist, the last horrifying revelation that wrings a final scream out of the exhausted audience. You've seen it a hundred times: The ambulance driver taking the battered victims to the hospital grins ... and he has fangs. A close-up shows that the shambling, good-natured GI taking the townsfolk to safety has the marks of alien spores on his neck...
all is not well in Happy Ending Land. The invaders of our civil liberties are being protected. A pointless war drags on. Health reform is being co-opted by cynical politicians and special interests. What else can it be but a Horror-Twist ending to a Horror-Movie Decade?
Perhaps we'll see calls for 2010 optimism and progress couched in genre terms - shun the Gothic decade!
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