The novelist detailed on his eponymous podcast “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast” (through Selection) precisely how horror misplaced its momentum after the gritty Seventies movies. In actual fact, it’s the veil of thriller to the supernatural occurrences that, for Ellis, made scary movies even scarier.
“Particularly within the ‘70s, horror motion pictures didn’t have backstories or solutions to them explaining the horror,” Ellis stated. “Why is Regan possessed by a satan in ‘The Exorcist?’ We don’t know. Why does the shark cruise Amity [in ‘Jaws’]? You don’t know. The place did Carrie White get her powers? I don’t know.”
The “Smiley Face Killers” screenwriter continued, “You can go on and on with the thriller of those motion pictures, and what made them a lot extra scary was that they weren’t defined. I usually discover now
