We also go to re-establish our feelings of essential normality; thehorror movie is innately conservative, even reactionary. FredaJackson as the horrible melting woman in Die, Monster, Die! con-firms for us that no matter how far we may be removed from thebeauty of a Robert Redford or a Diana Ross, we are still light-yearsfrom true ugliness

I think that we’re all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylumsonly hide it a little better — and maybe not all that much better, af-ter all.