Sleep depraved

Published Nov 06 2009, 03:05 PM by Peter Keough

After writing about "Disney's A Christmas Carol" earlier this week, I fell into a cold sweat, a panic attack as if I was about to remember something I was trying to forget.

Details of that movie - the dim sense of hideous entities invading the bedroom, the flashing lights, the feeling of being lifted bodily from under the covers to some horrifying destination - touched on something repressed and dreadful.

I had experienced these things before.

Then I remembered: it was from the trailer for "The Fourth Kind" (I haven't seen the movie; are you kidding?), in which post-Whitley Streiber ETs have their way with slumbering Alaskans (insert Sarah Palin joke here). And not just that, but also "Paranormal Activities," the "Blair Witch"-ish horror movie in which a yuppie-fied young couple record on video inexplicable nocturnal visitations.

Clearly there is a trend in recent movies tapping into a fear of -- or desire for? -- things that go bump in the night while the rest of the world is asleep and vulnerable.

What does it mean? Socialism would be my guess. That Maoist Obama regime lulling us to sleep with sweet talk and Health Care lullabies so they can give us the ultimate anal probe of a full-blown Marxist dictatorship. Just remember that I warned you.

Noir more than ever

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