No desert is so dreary, monotonous and boring as evil. With fictional good and evil it is the other way around. They're like the title of that 70's book by a French nouveau philosophe , God is Dead. Marx is Dead. Well Myself .
Terror alone seems to shape otherwise shapeless lives.
For three decades we've had an increasingly strong diet of cinematic worms, gnawing away at peoples' ability to see evil in proper perspective. In the world of postmodern film, evil's on the loose and good is running for its life. All of these elements are present to an extent in classic Gothic horror films from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Gary Oldham's recent portrayal. Evil is certainly real and powerful, but also defeatable by a Power more powerful. My, how the themes have changed in forty years.