But all varieties
of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci -
fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric
tales (I trip over one
of these whenever I get the newspaper); films
of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet
Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries
of the psychological horror variety (the works
of Dario Argento,
of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).