scary thoughts? horror movies
sometimes i have the strangest thoughts, but i guess it's normal? some of the first thoughts i had this morning were about what would be the most horrible/painful/torturous way to die.
i'm cutting this because it's pretty sick and some people may not like that. don't wanna make anyone cry! haha
first i was thinking about being eaten alive by something powerful like a hippo or something like that. then i thought it would be a lot more torturous if it was over a longer period of time than just over and done with that quickly. so i came up with this: if you were in a dark abandoned building and you fell and you became paralyzed by the fall so you couldn't move. and since it was dark and abandoned no one would find you. you would slowly start dying of starvation and you would go crazy because you couldn't move or see anything. then eventually you would get eaten alive by mice/rats/insects. has this even been in a horror movie? aside from in se7en where the "sloth" guy is belted to the bed to die of starvation, only for them to realize he's actually still alive, which is similar but not the same. i guess i think about this stuff because i watch a lot of horror movies, and generally it's pretty difficult to scare me. plus, so many horror movies have the same plot anymore. movie writers need to start getting more creative and come up with something we haven't seen a million times already.
the best that i've seen recently when it comes to original ideas in horror movies is the series "masters of horror", a series of hour long movies that were shown on showtime. those movies are extremely graphic and always show you something you've never seen before. unfortunately they stopped making any more of them, but they are available on dvd. i have the 2nd season, which includes my favorites, "pelts", "family", "pro life" and "right to die". another one i love is "jenifer" and luckily heather had a copy of that already. if you're a person who is desensitized to horror movies and wants to see something that will actually freak you out, i recommend checking it out. the people who made "masters of horror" started making "fear itself" which comes on tv now. i've managed to miss the majority of the episodes of that, but it's on regular tv so it's nowhere near as graphic or scary.
i often wonder if most other people even think about stuff like this. i'm constantly imagining horrible things happening, like stuff that happens in horror movies. not that i'm imagining it happening to me, or that i'm afraid it ever would. worst case scenarios constantly play out in my brain, without me even consciously thinking about it. in everyday events like driving, i'm always imagining things like the cars in front of me crashing and flying in the air and bursting into flames, stuff like that. the fact that i imagined it at all lets me know that it's not going to happen, because it never has. the thoughts don't scare me in the least though, they're just there and they kind of make me laugh to myself. the way i imagine things like that is just too ridiculous to be true, ever. or walking out to the car at night after work, i imagine someone trying to rob me, and i have to stab him in the eye with my keys or something. i don't know why but i'm somewhat comforted by disturbing thoughts. i enjoy that my mind works this way. i think it's fun to think up the most disgusting/disturbing things possible. an old favorite of mine is "babies chewing razor blades". i still can't come up with anything worse than that. this mental image of bloody gums and screaming comes up in my head, it actually makes me feel a little ill thinking about it, and i like that. it's difficult to do.
i'm cutting this because it's pretty sick and some people may not like that. don't wanna make anyone cry! haha
first i was thinking about being eaten alive by something powerful like a hippo or something like that. then i thought it would be a lot more torturous if it was over a longer period of time than just over and done with that quickly. so i came up with this: if you were in a dark abandoned building and you fell and you became paralyzed by the fall so you couldn't move. and since it was dark and abandoned no one would find you. you would slowly start dying of starvation and you would go crazy because you couldn't move or see anything. then eventually you would get eaten alive by mice/rats/insects. has this even been in a horror movie? aside from in se7en where the "sloth" guy is belted to the bed to die of starvation, only for them to realize he's actually still alive, which is similar but not the same. i guess i think about this stuff because i watch a lot of horror movies, and generally it's pretty difficult to scare me. plus, so many horror movies have the same plot anymore. movie writers need to start getting more creative and come up with something we haven't seen a million times already.
the best that i've seen recently when it comes to original ideas in horror movies is the series "masters of horror", a series of hour long movies that were shown on showtime. those movies are extremely graphic and always show you something you've never seen before. unfortunately they stopped making any more of them, but they are available on dvd. i have the 2nd season, which includes my favorites, "pelts", "family", "pro life" and "right to die". another one i love is "jenifer" and luckily heather had a copy of that already. if you're a person who is desensitized to horror movies and wants to see something that will actually freak you out, i recommend checking it out. the people who made "masters of horror" started making "fear itself" which comes on tv now. i've managed to miss the majority of the episodes of that, but it's on regular tv so it's nowhere near as graphic or scary.
i often wonder if most other people even think about stuff like this. i'm constantly imagining horrible things happening, like stuff that happens in horror movies. not that i'm imagining it happening to me, or that i'm afraid it ever would. worst case scenarios constantly play out in my brain, without me even consciously thinking about it. in everyday events like driving, i'm always imagining things like the cars in front of me crashing and flying in the air and bursting into flames, stuff like that. the fact that i imagined it at all lets me know that it's not going to happen, because it never has. the thoughts don't scare me in the least though, they're just there and they kind of make me laugh to myself. the way i imagine things like that is just too ridiculous to be true, ever. or walking out to the car at night after work, i imagine someone trying to rob me, and i have to stab him in the eye with my keys or something. i don't know why but i'm somewhat comforted by disturbing thoughts. i enjoy that my mind works this way. i think it's fun to think up the most disgusting/disturbing things possible. an old favorite of mine is "babies chewing razor blades". i still can't come up with anything worse than that. this mental image of bloody gums and screaming comes up in my head, it actually makes me feel a little ill thinking about it, and i like that. it's difficult to do.