The theories of De Man and Deleuze were seminal in the 80's, but any school of thought which prevailed in the last decade is always declared out of date for twenty years. I like the part in Reanimator where the severed head licks the Dean's daughter's vagina. A grisly horror film is indispensable after sex because it relieves frustration. Horror films with female protagonists often employ a reductive process similar to Beckett's. All footholds of safety, all emblems of personal power, are systematically removed, so that the character's consciousness is reduced to a primordial state and, betrayed by external reality, turns on itself.
Violence is porn, and porn is the head cleaner of the human mind.
The impulse to kill is like the need to dream. Just as we must have nightmares to avoid hallucinating while awake, we are compelled to ritualize our violent side. Since we feel the slaughtering of Christians is problematic, we do not recommend this Roman method of catharsis. Instead, we suggest that the Roman arena be replaced by the VCR, where the spectacle of human sacrifice can be simulated in as grisly and harmless a manner as possible. I wanna be a good boy, but bad people make it impossible.