The Final Countdown

[fortunato]

Originally Posted by The Flayed One

So basically, you all are saying that, like some optimists who find good in everything, that we can find horror in everything and indeed it is everywhere?

perhaps, or maybe if we don't find it somewhere, we put it there.

[The Flayed One]

Interesting.

So, let us pretend that we are motivational speakers. Or Ron Popiel style salesmen. If you were going to pitch the idea of horror to someone, how would you sell it? How would you hype it up to interest them into taking it into their lives?

[_____V_____]

Eat horror, drink horror, watch horror, read horror.

And avoid HDC General Forum. :D

[The Flayed One]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

Eat horror, drink horror, watch horror, read horror.

And avoid HDC General Forum. :D

Your opinion doesn't count, ya jerk:p

[_____V_____]

Originally Posted by The Flayed One

Your opinion doesn't count, ya jerk:p

As long as they dont quote me. :p

[The Flayed One]

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11 more days till Halloween
Halloween
Halloween
11 more days till Halloween

Silver Spamrock

[fortunato]

Originally Posted by The Flayed One

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11 more days till Halloween
Halloween
Halloween
11 more days till Halloween

Silver Spamrock

Haha! Oddly enough, that jingle has been stuck in my head all day.

I suppose if I was going to pitch the idea of horror to someone, I'd argue that horror can satisfy a part of them that nothing else can, really. It reaches into that part of us in which fear and pleasure are so closely linked, resides there, and therefore allows us to find pleasure in fear. It's for this reason, this outlook, that horror fans might be more able to make sense out of some of the fear that is so present in this world. It is also this outlook that unites horror fans everywhere, makes us into one body that's able to see the world a little differently than everyone else.

Hehe, that turned out to be quite melodramatic.

[newb]

yeah...and every time I see the title of this thread...that crappy song gets stuck in my head.

Were leaving together,
But still its farewell
And maybe well come back,
To earth, who can tell?
I guess there is no one to blame
Were leaving ground
Will things ever be the same again?

Its the final countdown...

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by The Flayed One

So basically, you all are saying that, like some optimists who find good in everything, that we can find horror in everything and indeed it is everywhere?

I'm going to have a difficult time answering this without sounding incredibly melodramatic...

Optimism is pointless and unrealistic.

I find reality horrifying and, ironically, use horror movies as pure escapism. I fantasize about the zombie apocalypse.

What I find horrifying:

• People (what we're capable of, what I'm capable of, what they're capable of - genocide, pedophilia, torture, misogyny, racism xenophobia, intolerance, violence, murder, rape, destruction, anger)
• Ignorance (leads to the above)
• Politics, failing economy, ozone layer, Wars, poverty, disease, hunger, megalomania, sociopathology.

THE HORRORS.

What an individual is capable of doing to another individual - Pure acts of evil, desecration, violation...

Evil is real. It's not some sort of super-natural God-made thing (or Devil-made thing or whatever Being that Some attribute Evil to). WE create Evil and we revel in it.

And, even MORE horrifying... Good can only come from US.

*shudder*

...

And on THAT cheery note, I think I'm going to go crawl back into my hole.

[bloodrayne]

Originally Posted by newb

yeah...and every time I see the title of this thread...that crappy song gets stuck in my head.

I've had that since day 1...My post rhymed :p

Originally Posted by bloodrayne

Seeing the title of this thread, keeps making the song play in my head...

It doesn't help that Alex incorporated the song into one of his videos that the baby LOVES, so I have to HEAR it all day, too

Originally Posted by The Flayed One

11 more days till Halloween
Halloween
Halloween
11 more days till Halloween

Silver Spamrock

Originally Posted by fortunato

Haha! Oddly enough, that jingle has been stuck in my head all day.

Heh...Might as well spread it around :)