The horror of it all

Chris LEE’S perceptive article (“Horror Returns to Make a Killing,” Jan. 30) should have made mention of Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later.” A smart, stylish and disturbingly real take on the “zombie” genre, the film was a huge success in the U.K. and went on to gross $45 million in the U.S. -- a considerable sum for such a modestly budgeted British movie.

-- Alan Ireland

Los Angeles

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Chris LEE repeats a fallacy that constantly occurs in articles on horror film revivals, that women are latecomers to their audience. In fact, they have been popular with blue-collar white women as far back as the ‘50s. Although they supposedly eschew excessively gory films, over the last 25 years there have been older and younger female members of the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films who only show up for films reputed to be heavily gross.

-- Rick Mitchell

Los Angeles