after all, my copy has The Sunday Express calling it the same thing in a blurb on the inside cover. Also, consider that Rue Morgue itself is named after a hor- ror tale literary critics consider to be the “first Amer- ican detective story.” Blatty’s never tried to distance himself from his creation, knowing full well where it permanently stands in pop culture. He even produced the awful prequel for Chrissakes, so your sense of outrage is hard to understand. He can call The Exor- cist a chamber drama for all I care, it doesn’t change any of the reasons why I, as a lifelong horror fan, love it.
MIKE GATES – SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA BOWEN’S LATEST Column briefly touched upon DEAR MR. BOWEN, thank you so much for calling
bullshit on the It’s-Not-Really-Horror crowd in RM#113. I have noticed recently, on making-of shorts and commentaries of DVDs, a lot of back-slapping and proud sniffing from the directors, writers and actors that think their movie is “more” than just a horror movie. Their stories are more complex, more involved, more this or more that, and they have actors that are true dramatic actors and give so much more that el- evates their film above a “simple genre movie.” I am sick of hearing horror fans patronized like this – like we are some cultural Jethros, rope belt and all. What would we basement-dwelling ghouls know about good storytelling? What would we graveyard skippers know about real art? We’re the ones who make the midnight premiere at the art house theatres. We’re the ones who make the conventions to see the sneak peeks. We’re the ones who forward the links to the shorts we find online and pass around our old tapes. We are fans and we are proud. Don’t talk down to us and don’t sell us short. KATE KEENE – HOUSTON, TEXAS
MR. BOWEN, while I appreciate the passion of the
war cry bellowing from your basement in RM#113, I can’t quite get behind it. The title of horror is one I’ve always accepted reluctantly as a fan because I feel like connecting all the material under it as simply “horrible” is ham-fisted, and I can’t blame artists for trying to offer a more appropriate description. (Though it does sometimes sound like semantic nit-picking.) William Peter Blatty [pictured above], in particular, got a raw deal. But if he conceptualizes The Exorcist as a supernatural detective story, I’ll at least give him the artistic credit to look for that context before arbitrarily calling him a pussy. It’s not completely out of left field;
an issue I’ve pondered myself and I think is worth exploring more. It inspired me to do a little of my own cataloguing. The Shamed: Jennifer Connelly –at least twice on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, he jok- ingly played her clips of Phenomena, and they treated it as an embarrassing “before they were famous” early work; Ted Danson –according to George Romero on the Knightriders commentary, Danson re- fuses to talk about Creepshow in interviews. The Proud: Julianne Moore – according to Romero and John Harrison’s DVD commentary for Tales From the Darkside: The Movie, Moore enjoyed her early role, had a fun time applying actor techniques such as character motivation, and reminisced positively about it when Harrison ran into her many years later. JUSTIN WARD – PHOENIX, ARIZONA
I WOULD LOVE if, in a future issue, you could re-
view the guys and gals behind
deaditepress.com. Maybe even a feature article on them. Every horror fan needs to get their dirty mitts on the books they put out. Edward Lee! Brian Keene! Wrath James White! And this ain’t spam, I just love them as much as I love you!
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LOVE THE MAGAZINE although some of the covers are questionable.
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WOULD YOU RATHER go hiking through bear country while wearing a mummy costume made out of bacon, or dive into an Olympic-sized swimming pool with one great white shark in it, while wearing a Dracula cape dipped in blood?
Bears, hopefully I am with someone that runs slower than me.
NICK BATTAGLIA I’ll take the shark as it would probably be
a quicker death and I’ll die happy knowing that I gave it diabetes.
BILL MORTON I wouldn’t even get in a pool with that
fake shark. That’s what Jaws did to me. JOEL FISH
Bacon mummy, at least I’ll die eating what I love. LACEY FISCHER
I’m wearing a Dracula cape dipped in blood RIGHT NOW!
KAT VON PIRE
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