SCARY TIMES
In a LA Times.com interview, horror master Wes Craven talks with Deborah Netburn on the politics of horror. The political slant of his new remake of The Hills Have Eyes 2 is almost too obvious for comment. The all-American family of his 1977 original The Hills Have Eyes and its 2006 remake –- and the bikers in his slap-dash 1985 The Hills Have Eyes 2 – have been replaced by National Guard trainees, who ultimately will be deployed in Iraq. (Of course, the family in the original may be too close for Craven, since he wrote this remake with his son Jonathan.)
Latimes.com: You have an amazing legacy of figuring out exactly what people are scared of at a given moment in time. What do you think is scary today?
WC: The current administration. That’s the standard answer now. Unfortunately I’m not even joking. But the basic themes of what is scary have always been the same. A murderous rage that builds up in a family, a neighborhood or a nation, those are things I think are scary.
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