The Wicker Man |
Also, no matter how awkward or out of place you may feel in your life, it is always nice to know that there are people out there more fucked up than you! Put in any type of horror film and you will come across characters whose odd behaviors and actions make your worst traits look good. After working in mental health for years, guess what folks, there are people like that, somewhere, doing shit just like you see in those films! Those people exist! Aren't you glad you never came across them?! Because I wish I could say that. Many of the stories that horror movies are based off of have some truth to them. Someone just took that person and story and twisted it to the point that you forget "real" people are actually capable of that. This helps us to ignore the real evil out there. I mean think about it, would you in real life, go set outside someone's house and watch them get slayed by a crazed killer for the sake of entertainment?
Well a popular film that comes to mind is Hannibal Lecter, what could be more sick then to kill and eat someone? That evil lurks all around us. A man by the name of Albert Fish who lived from 1870-1936, was a cannibalistic child killer. He would kidnap, rape, murder and then eat these children who were sometimes as young as four years of age. He often boasted that "he had children in every state" with numbers totaling over 100. In movies over the years, film makers have used this real life story in what you see on the big-screen. You may recognize some of the other names that Albert Fish was known by, which were The Gray Man, The Werewolf of Wysteria, The Brooklyn Vampire, and The Boogey Man. Psychiatrists testified in his case that he had sexual fetishes which included sadism, coprophilia, urophilia, pedophilia, infibulation, and masochism. In Albert's mind he actually associated his cannibalistic actions with that of communion. The supernatural beings you see in horror movies are based off of our inability to comprehend individuals like Albert Fish, so we make them into these monsters in stories, because there is no way a human being could commit such crimes.
Twilight |
But what do we do? Well we glorify these people by making them into teen dreams, like you see in the Twilight films or in True Blood. A person that wants to suck your blood and kill you? Ahhh, that is so dreamy! Look he is a serial killer, who at one time, took the lives of others. But he is sparkly! All of that is forgotten. I mean if someone killed your whole family, drank their blood, and then slapped on some glitter....um, would you let it slide then? Don't get me wrong, I love a good horror flick just like the next, but I think some people completely forget the main premise of the films. They are killers! Not snugly, cute bunnies.
True Blood |
They show you a sappy love story and play on your emotions to win you over and then all is forgotten again. That is about as romantic as a love triangle between a human, a vampire bat and a piranha. That is about what it would resemble in real life. So people, even though the female breasts can be tantalizing, don't let that draw you away from the context of the film. Monsters need to portrayed as what they are; back when vampire movies weren't glitter and a glorified Ménage à trois.
Ok, ummmm, What was I saying Again?