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Originally posted by The Mothman
i wonder what it is about gore that i love so damn much. I mean, its just redness and wet things and liquids, but it is SO damn satisfying...wtf is wrong with me lol. but i show some of my friends my horror movies, and they seem to love it too.
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Nothing wrong with you. Bloodlust is hardwired into the human condition and has been explioted by storytellers since story itself began.
-Cave paintings of the hunt and the kill
-The brutals fights in the Epic of Gilgamesh
-Oedipus, Medea, Antigone (throwing sex into the mix)
-Beowulf
-Romeo & Juliet is a freakin' bloodbath (to say nothing of Titus Andronicus)
-The Grand Guignol of Paris
and on and on and on
Us horror geeks are just a little more in tune with (and less afraid of) our inherent bloodlust:D