Tis the season for scary movies with Halloween happening on Monday. And under all that slashing and screaming and gore that populates the film genre, aren’t horror movies just underdog stories at their core?
We have lone survivors like “Final Girls” Laurie Strode and Ellen Ripley, who overcome the odds to whoop the big baddy and win the day. You also have guys like Chris Washington in “Get Out” and Ash Williams in “The Evil Dead” going to great lengths to come out on top, like chopping off their own hand and braining someone with a bocce ball.
And, even considering the evil antagonists in horror flicks, you often have a one-man wrecking crew like Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers, who are massively outnumbered, seem to …