Stephen King doesn’t like modern horror movies. From his Entertainment Weekly column (that’s still going on? seriously?):

Those flicks tend to be like sandwiches overstuffed with weirdly tasteless meat and cheese, meals that glut the belly but do nothing for the soul. Studio execs, who not only live behind the curve but seem to have built mansions there, don’t seem to understand that most moviegoers recognize all the bluescreens and computer graphics of big-budget films and flick them aside.

Fair enough, but that applies to all of Hollywood, really. A big chunk of this rant involves the new X-Files movie (which he hasn’t seen)… and which he also puts in the horror genre and which he pre-emptively bashes because, like all bad horror, he says, it will “feel a need to shove WHAT IT ALL MEANS down the audience’s throat.”

Huh?

Meanwhile, let’s not forget some of the great films to have come from Mr. King’s work: Secret Window, The Mangler, Maximum Overdrive, Dreamcatcher… seriously, Mr. King, your list of utter failures is far longer than your hits (most of which are barely horror at all). I guess they tried to explain what it all means too much, huh?

Scary!