The Horror Essay

I’m not a horror person.But I enjoyed Sunday afternoon Godzilla flicks as childhood revenge fantasies. Little boy wrecks fat man’s city. No clue it was other people’s psychodrama.My favorite was “All Monsters Attack.” That’s the one where a latchkey kid and his Mini-daikaiju-Me battle bullies and low-effort parenting. Wait … a mysterious island … a toy-dangling neighbor … suspiciously timed narcolepsy^[We’re talking Ged from Earthsea levels.]… were those masks in the Epstein files‽ That kid wasn’t “Home Alone”-ing those bank robbers in an abandoned factory; he was “Sucker Punch”-ing them. Can you think of a safer, more legally sheltered place than Monster Island?^[#MeToo.]特撮 (TOKUSATSU) TANGENT There’s also “Frankenstein vs. Baragon”/“Frankenstein Conquers the World,” a movie that dares to ask (and answer) the question, “What if the Nazis took the heart of Frankenstein’s monster to Japan right before America dropped the atomic bomb(s), and then, like, what if it grew into Unfrozen…