Be Somewhat Afraid; Tricks for Horror Fans: "...And I don't even like the Chucky movies much. It's just that the series' out-there gruesomeness and frank stupidity strike me as preferable to the more recent style of big-budget action/horror pictures like 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse' and the coming 'Blade: Trinity' (Dec. 8). The heroes and heroines of this sort of film do battle against traditional horror-movie threats - mutants, lethal viruses, vampires, homicidal computers and the like - but in a proactive, can-do sort of way that seems to negate the true power of the genre: the dire possibility that the malignant, irrational forces we struggle against may finally be stronger than we are. Who could seriously doubt that these sleek paramilitary operations, full of advanced weaponry and preening computer-generated imagery, will succeed in beating back the dark implacable enemy? There might as well be a 'Mission Accomplished' banner in the background of every scene."
I have to agree with this assessment. While movies like "Blade", "Resident Evil" and "Underworld" provide plenty of thrills, they really aren't scary at all. Scary is what I watched last night: George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", in which those "malignant, irrational forces" actually prevail.
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