More laziness than creativity in new horror sub-genre featuring familiar storybook characters as killers
By: STEPHEN WHITTY | Published: 2026-09-09 11:55:57 | Source: www.njarts.net
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The title character of “Pinocchio Unstrung.”
And they died gorily ever after.
That’s the way stories once meant for children often seem to end today as, rewritten for adult audiences, they feature fairy-tale favorites picking up chainsaws, comic-strip heroes brandishing axes, and nursery-school characters on murderous rampages.
What was once a bad-taste joke — maybe…
