Jungian Horror Evangelist.
1st horror movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1978 (6 yrs old)
There is nothing to this one, nothing holding it up. Not even the simplicity of the simplest survival horror film plot. I spend a lot of time defending the slasher films of the '80s as being, despite what they may look like, about something. But this one is actually everything the mainstream critics of the '80s accused those films of being: a cynical shock machine of pornographic plotlessness and squicky fetishism, in which a misogynistic killer viciously butchers women whom…