WONT HAPPEN. SERIAL KILLERS PLAY INTO 2 GENRES. DETECTIVE FICTION AND HORROR, DEPENDING ON ANGLE. MASS SHOOTINGS PLAY INTO FUCK ALL.https://twitter.com/guywithbrain/status/927472804919836672 …
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There's Runaway Jury, where a woman sues the manufacturer of the weapon used in the office shooting that killed her husband
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We had serial killers in fiction even before we knew what a serial killer was (see Dr. Quartz, Nick Carter's arch-enemy from the 1890s)
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But I could see mass murders being used in fiction as a living ticking time bomb. Think Bogdanovich's TARGETS.
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Also because they can be construed as aberrations. Mass shooters are more obviously the products of a failure in the system.
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Serial killers are basically vampires. Glorified killers.
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And there have certainly been unsuccessful attempts to merge the formspic.twitter.com/tMeeVdL2qF
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What about Elephant, which repurposes arthouse and FPS games?
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Also, average viewer can't imagine being a serial killer's target but knows he/she could be a mass shooting victim, so it's no fun to watch.
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We also like to portray evil that is calculated and intelligent, when it’s actually arbitrary and dumb.
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What about Dirty Harry? Repulsive movie, but in the climax the serial killer’s goal was to cause terror, similar to a mass shooter.
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