The Passion of Darkly Noon

The standard villain in late 1970s and early 1980s slasher horror movies had single motivation for his/her murderous acts, particularly obvious when his/her victims were sexually active youths. That was puritanical disgust with the hedonistic practices which were considered sinful and depraved from Bible-thumpers' point of view. That motivation was always hinted in horror movies, more indirectly than directly. Yet t…