Obama's Election Means a Return of Vampire Flicks

gyrogeerloose writes "In a column in Saturday's San Diego Union Tribune, Peter Rowe makes a connection between the popularity of horror movie genres and the political party in the White House. A Republican administration presides over a period of zombie movies while a Democrat in the Oval Office brings on a cycle of vampire movies. Why? Possibly because the two genres 'are really competing parables about class warfare.' Hmmmm, maybe. On the other hand, it might just be a coincidence." Socialists are best represented by lycanthropes, and the Libertarians are most closely tied to any sort of horror from space.

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Re:This makes more sense than I expected

[Prien715]

Wouldn't that be agnostic cinema since gnosis is Greek for knowledge, whereas lack of knowledge is represented in its negation (agnostic)?

The Gnostics were a group of early Christians who believed the god of the old testament was evil (especially for imprisoning spirits in bodies), but the good god periodically sent messengers to free us from him, like the serpent in the Garden of Eden or Jesus. Unfortunately, after the mainstream Christians were done being persecuted, they decided they rather liked the other side of the racket and persecuted the Gnostics nearly to extinction...stuff like the dead sea scrolls survived though.

Some say though, that the Gnostics spirits are still restless and inhabit the bodies of the undead....