The horror director Brian De Palma once described the simple essence of his genre: вЂњThere is just something about a woman and a knife.вЂќ But, in this case, it was the president - and the federal government - being chased through dim corridors by a maniacal gang with big knives held high. If the scariest thing in the world is something you canвЂ™t understand, then Americans are scared out of their minds about what is happening in America.ДЄs William Friedkin, the director of вЂњThe Exorcist,вЂќ observed 27 years after Linda BlairвЂ™s head spun 360В°, horror movies, like Hitler, pose a chilling, unanswerable question: вЂњWhy do bad things happen to good people?вЂќ вЂњRosemaryвЂ™s Tea Party,вЂќ an online commenter called it. We continue to be paranoid, gripped by fear of the unknown, shocked by our own helplessness, stunned by how swiftly one world can turn into a darker one where everything can seem familiar yet foreign. Most of the audience staggered away from this slasher flick still shuddering. The gory, Gothic melodrama on the Potomac is a summer horror blockbuster - without the catharsis. Even before Emanuel Cleaver, the Democratic congressman from Missouri, called the debt deal вЂњa sugar-coated Satan sandwichвЂќ and Nancy Pelosi tossed in a side of вЂњSatan fries,вЂќ the whiff of sulfur was rising from the Capitol.

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