Allow me a little digression...

Who would you consider the master of terror and suspense? For many, it is not the slasher, blood and mayhem novelists, but Alfred Hitchcock. Why? Because he knew how to bring the terror out from within his viewers. He understood that the most terrifying thing we can imagine is...the terror we can imagine.

Why do we need an "other" to exclude and vilify? Could it not be because we see in him/her/it something of ourselves that we really wish we did not see? Thus the terror from without is really the terror from within.

Now, what in the world was I thinking about......

Freightdawg