At the weekend I had the misfortune of watching Grace (thanks to the Netflix Wii disc, a goddamned gift from commercial hating heaven.) To sum up the movie, vegetarian hippie marries into a relatively rich family with an Oedipal mother/son relationship. The couple get into a car accident and the pregnant vegetarian insists on carrying her child to term. The result, oh irony of ironies, Zombaby.
Admittedly, the reason I hated this film is I felt it ripped the chance away from me to have low budget baby puppet leaping and latching to people's eyes and other soft organs (up until the baby develops teeth, of course) in its thirst for flesh. What I got instead was the disgusting scene of a 60 year old woman forcing herself to lactate so she can take Zombaby away from the hippie and the hippie buying meat. Oh so scary.
I'd think it was both a terrible grasp of irony and black comedy that pushed this bizarre vegetarian/horror connection, had I not seen the worse but funny Troll 2. To save you from watching it, Troll 2 is a "movie" about a family that goes on vacation to a village controlled by a witch that really love plants. They're all vegan, no bacon, no eggs, just bizarre potions created by their ruler to turn everyone into plants. It does contain this memorable exchange towards the end:
Joshua: A double-decker bologna sandwich!
Creedence: Aaahhh! Think about the cholesterol! Think about... THE TOXINS...!
Yeah.
Is it just that earnest veg*ns are easy targets for horror? Or the simple revelation we're all made of meat and they don't eat any? Or that they don't eat any meat but they're more than happy to kill another human being to feed their baby or turn them in to plants? At any rate, I think it's fairly clear, horror movies hate vegetarians.
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