10:10AM STV | The backlash to the
Dark Knight backlash isn’t exactly news — not after
two weeks and almost $400 million dollars silencing even the most vehement of the film’s critics. But today we direct our attention to the more disturbing phenomenon of physical threats against some of those same critics, a few of whose lives have even been targeted by rogue fanboys with a taste for reviewer blood. We hardly believed it ourselves until an
unsettling taxonomy of freaks coming after reviewers
Jürgen Fauth and
Keith Uhlich showcased the worst of it: