Over the years, I have concluded that much of American entertainment is a morality play.
Pro Wrestling is one such example, and the teen slasher flick is another.
The
repulsive behavior of the Talibaptists (or should I call them Christofascist?) on the HPV vaccine issue is an example of how the medieval religious right buy into, and feed the culture of death that we see with Jason, Freddy, and Chucky on film.
Specifically, death in most slasher flicks is preceded by sexual impurity.
Sex=Death.
So the you can associate right wing views with the trashiest of the modern culture:
* Slasher flick sexuality.
* Dead baby joke sensibility on abortion.
* Public health as Zombie movies
* What else?
They are more than wrong, they are
trashy.