Topic: Modern Day Cheaters of Horror  Lately I have sat in
several movie theaters, watching horror movies, and wondering to
myself â€“ where have all the good writers gone (Insert Paula
Cole music here)? Then I start getting this conspiracy idea,
where maybe the special effects people killed them off and
replaced them with robots from the planet Lame. It seems to me
that movies have begun to rely on something that Stephen King
and I refer to as, the cheap scare (Note: Stephen King may not
have actually said that. For that matter, he has never met me,
nor does he care what I think). This is the scare that comes
from A: loud noises erupting in the middle of a silent part and
B: extreme violence and/or gore that adds nothing to the
storyline. Donâ€™t get me wrong, effects are awesome when used
properlyâ€¦ and sparingly, just like that hint of cyanide you
put in your spouses coffee each day to keep them from going to
the cops.  Story lines seem to keep getting dropped in favor of,
well, noise and millions of doll