2. FEAR
Fear is an unpleasant emotion, which us, as
humans, encounter when met with someone
or something dangerous who is most likely to
cause pain or threaten us psychologically
and physically. As Horror movies play the
role of enhancing our fears and
psychologically confusing fantasy with reality,
I personally enjoy horror movies with sudden
twists and to the extent of extreme gore. In
my point of view, it is a good way in thrilling
the audience and capture them into the
motion picture and join the journey which the
antag-onist/protagonist is pulled into, whether it's disturbing or strangely intriguing.
As Suzie Mackenzie states in "Fear be my friend", The Guardian, 23 Saturday 1999,
"Horror is about consciousness, it's about being awake to whatever it is that threatens
us. In all the best horror, two worlds meld - inner and outer reality - the nightmare
becomes indistinguishable from the real."
4. MY FEARS
As far as I know, I fear two things within a film. Snakes and Zombies; simple yet deadly
creatures. Both attackers, both with the minds to feed.
Snakes, in film, are portrayed as cunning, quick and venemous and possess the ability to
make a victim's death nice and slow. The way the slither, the way they suffocate and trap
their prey, the way their fangs sink into ones flesh in an instant, and without thinking, you
can already feel and imagine the pain the victim is feeling when he writhes on the floor in
spasm. Just watching the whole process gets me icky. To watch someone struggle in pain
for a long period of time before they meet their death, is enough for me to turn away.
5. MY FEARS
But Zombies, ohohoho, are mindless eating killing machines. They lunge at the sight of
anything moving or possessing the warmth of a beating heart and tare them apart, alive. To
see the spleen and the veins being pulled and the organs toppling and gnawed into their
absent-minded mouths with sprays of blood... their cold eyes. I cannot stand. And ontop of
that, hearing the ongoing screams of someone who you may have grown close to
throughout the movie... no thank you.
6. EXPERIENCE
Past experiences take a strong turn to a person's feelings towards something or
someone - whether the experience is bad or good. Bad experience strongly relates to a
person's fears, in which why they fear a certain thing.
In relation to snakes, when I was little, I went to a zoo with my family in Ukraine where
they had live reptiles, either sleeping or barely moving about its cage. My family left me
and my brother alone with a few other cousins and a zoo keeper strolled up to us and
asked if we wanted to watch a snake eat. Interests sparked all our minds and we were
taken to see a python in the centre of the room, staring forward, as if nothing was
more interesting than a wall. The zoo keeper vanished and returned with the faint
squawks of a chicken trapped in his hands - alive. He opened the python's cage, threw
the chicken inside and locked it tight. The chicken landed on the python's body, and for
a couple of minutes, it did not realise that it was sitting on death's trap, and it settled.
Dread was enough to know what would happen next.
Within the next few minutes, the chicken relaxed, but the python was ready to make its
move. 1/4 of its body had moved in the chicken's direction, steadily and slowly at first
and within the next couple of seconds, the python had launched and strangled the
chicken within its body, choking it to its death. The chicken struggled but lay breathless
within five seconds, but we all saw that each breath was harder to draw. The python's
body only tightened and tightened. The faint echoes of my cousin's laughter was
enough to remind me where I was. The eyes of the chicken did not close, as if it were
scared to go, but it knew what was coming.
7. But that's enough about me. In the post above, I have outlined with audio and video
recordings what other people fear and why, and if my fears are somehow linked or
related people within both genders.
I think, that overall, I fear the sight of
watching someone in pain, especially
someone close or someone I had
bonded with within a film. To have that
bond destroyed by something or
someone as dangerous as it may be
represented is something that makes
me have a mixture of anger, loss and
sadness. To have this feeling
accelerated within a movie thrills me,
but at the same time, does not. In
horror movies, I look for fantasy,
psychologically distressing storylines
and something that makes a certain
horror movie differ from the others.
