Brooker on mundane monsters

[sawyl]

Today finds Charlie Brooker on brilliant form, inspired by the horrors of Twilight to produce a fantastic rant about just how rubbish many of standard movie monsters really are.

Here he are his mighty thoughts on TV serial killers:

[F]ictional serial killers are usually more pretentious than frightening, perpetually quoting Milton or arranging their victims in poses designed to evoke the martyrdom of St Sebastian. What are you, a cold-blooded murderer or the controller of Radio 3? Proper maniacs are too disturbed to complete a Sudoku, let alone conduct an intellectual game of cat-and-mouse with an existentially minded detective. Put your cryptic crossword down and just strangle people. Or don't bother.

As a crossword-solving, poetry-quoting R3 listener, I shall henceforth be closely monitoring myself for signs that I might be making the transition from mild-mannered nerd to dangerous serial killer controller the most highbrow of the BBC's radio stations...