Aaahhhh!!! SCARYYYYYY!
Apr. 1st, 2003 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlock::sitting staring at comp monitor, glad to death there's no tv in her room, and imagining creepy girl stalking up to strangle from behind her desk chair::
Watched The Ring tonight. I discovered something about myself and horror films.
See, I can take all the creepy sounds and screams and psycho-slashers that you can throw at me. Once the experience is over and the credita are rolling, I won't blink an eye. Scream scary and jumpy and funny, but not something to keep you up at night.
Ghost stories do it to me. Specifically, poltergeist/demon-spirit type stories, like The Ring.
Why? Imagery. I'm an extremely visual person-- I'm artistic, and I'm always sensitive to the design and look of things around me, or things I see. I admire interesting rocks, pretty-shaped leaves, neat angles in architecture, a well-designed movie poster or restaurant menu.
This movie was chock full of scary/disturbing imagery. The killer video tape was designed almost as if someone had looked into Rashaka's brain, picked out the exact sequence of images that would make her freak, and put them together. And then built a horror movie around it.
The scariest thing to me? The cabin. God, that was awful. Sitting there, at th bottom of a hill, backed by shaggy trees...I think I must have told my parents at least 4 times throughout the movie that it was the ugliest more horrible looking place I'd ever seen and I'd sleep in the car before you'd get me to spend the night in a cabin like that.
Then...the girl walking toward the screen, and then crawling from the tv. That one will stay with me.
Also, the mirrors. Mirrors freak me out. Ghost-people behind you in mirrors freak me out.
And the faces in the photos. The faces really, really bothered me. I mean, they were small potatoes as far as horrorific images in the film, but they really really bothered me.
The film as a whole?
I think the whole thing was just... highly disturbing and the little girl was awful. So the dad kept her locked away? So the psycho mother killed her? It seemed they were right to. She was making the island bad, she was making her mother crazy, she was making the horses psycho, and after death she was killing even more people.
Morals of the Movie:
1. Some malevolent spirits are bad because they are bad. You can't help them, you can't put them to rest because they don't want rest or freedom or to be understood, they want to hurt everyone. And they'll use you to make that possible.
2. Always make sure that if you're going to ask your nearby requisite psychic child for advice, you get the whole story before you charge off to act.
3. Crazy horses are dangerous and a death-mask is awful to look at.
4. Rashaka shouldn't want stuff with scary imagery before going to sleep.
5. And of course, the horror movie rule of all rules: Just when you think it's over, it's not.
Watched The Ring tonight. I discovered something about myself and horror films.
See, I can take all the creepy sounds and screams and psycho-slashers that you can throw at me. Once the experience is over and the credita are rolling, I won't blink an eye. Scream scary and jumpy and funny, but not something to keep you up at night.
Ghost stories do it to me. Specifically, poltergeist/demon-spirit type stories, like The Ring.
Why? Imagery. I'm an extremely visual person-- I'm artistic, and I'm always sensitive to the design and look of things around me, or things I see. I admire interesting rocks, pretty-shaped leaves, neat angles in architecture, a well-designed movie poster or restaurant menu.
This movie was chock full of scary/disturbing imagery. The killer video tape was designed almost as if someone had looked into Rashaka's brain, picked out the exact sequence of images that would make her freak, and put them together. And then built a horror movie around it.
The scariest thing to me? The cabin. God, that was awful. Sitting there, at th bottom of a hill, backed by shaggy trees...I think I must have told my parents at least 4 times throughout the movie that it was the ugliest more horrible looking place I'd ever seen and I'd sleep in the car before you'd get me to spend the night in a cabin like that.
Then...the girl walking toward the screen, and then crawling from the tv. That one will stay with me.
Also, the mirrors. Mirrors freak me out. Ghost-people behind you in mirrors freak me out.
And the faces in the photos. The faces really, really bothered me. I mean, they were small potatoes as far as horrorific images in the film, but they really really bothered me.
The film as a whole?
I think the whole thing was just... highly disturbing and the little girl was awful. So the dad kept her locked away? So the psycho mother killed her? It seemed they were right to. She was making the island bad, she was making her mother crazy, she was making the horses psycho, and after death she was killing even more people.
Morals of the Movie:
1. Some malevolent spirits are bad because they are bad. You can't help them, you can't put them to rest because they don't want rest or freedom or to be understood, they want to hurt everyone. And they'll use you to make that possible.
2. Always make sure that if you're going to ask your nearby requisite psychic child for advice, you get the whole story before you charge off to act.
3. Crazy horses are dangerous and a death-mask is awful to look at.
4. Rashaka shouldn't want stuff with scary imagery before going to sleep.
5. And of course, the horror movie rule of all rules: Just when you think it's over, it's not.
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