'It' zoomed past 'The Exorcist' as the biggest horror movie in history. Why?
Horror, like every other movie genre, comes in every style, every degree of blatancy. Sometimes we're in the mood for the worst, because the times reek of disillusionment and moral rot. And other times, worse times, we yearn for some nice, scary comfort food.
The biggest-ever Stephen King movie adaptation recently set a record worth noting, and examining. Going into this past weekend, director Andy Muschietti's "It," set in Maine in the 1980s and full of nostalgic references to our
