A few years ago AMC did a feature on the movie "Halloween" and its director John Carpenter, to coincide with its annual October horror movie marathon.
The interviewer wanted assurances that Carpenter wasn't part of a right-wing Christian agenda to promote "family values".
How in the world could someone associate "family values" to a slasher movie, much less a right-wing agenda, you ask?
Well it seems that all of the "experienced" girls in the film ended up dead, while the virgin lived. Carpenter was asked if he was trying to teach kids the wacky notion that there are risks to sexual activity at that age.
I didn't hear his response, I was in such disbelief of the question.
I don't know how John Carpenter answered that, but I'd have to call the interviewer not only stupid, but lazy and ignorant to boot.
Most horror films today conform to previous older stories and urban legends right down to which characters are preferred as hero's and who's the victim.
I'm not going to get into the whole horror artsy crap, but I know John Carpenter is a true student of the genre (a bit lazy though). It amazes me how obsessed liberals get with politics that it becomes a compulsive tunnel vision that everything they see is tainted by the possiblity somone might have a different view or belief or that somthing is a subliminal attempt to manipulate them.
It's a common pattern in horror films; so common that horror director David Cronenberg felt obligated to strenuously deny it - all the while using the same theme in his own films. Actually, horror and sci-fi films are often *the* most conservative and moralistic films around.