All the best slashers are simple. This one, for example: Rob Zombie–ish killer escapes, turns up in town, carves through as many kids as he can until some plucky girl finally puts him down. All in twenty-four, thirty-six hours, under cover of a storm, with the sheriff out of town, cellphones down, power unreliable. Claude couldn’t have designed it any better himself.
I'd say it's inadvisable for a writer to acknowledge that his story's plot is basic and derivative.
