Well it’s Friday and after 5 so most of you must be out of the office and at least setting in traffic on your way home. Today I didn’t do a lot…had to do some clean up and organize on the living room/dinning and did a little more décor for Halloween though haven’t really had enough kids to bother in the last several years….I hate to give it up…
Pictures today are from Sanford Zoo
One of the participants in the Central Florida Zoo days for the kids…Thank mom for letting him pose for me.
Quotes from ENCHANTED WORLD: TALES OF TERROR
Outlander is probably going to be last but not least from now on.
and today we do more terrors.
“On the morning of her nuptials, the bride awoke to find herself embracing a skeleton. The air around her marriage bed was heavy with smoke and the odor of decomposing flesh.”
But first a that-a-girl to Jeanine Taylor (of Jeanine Taylor’s Folk Art Gallery in Sanford http://www.jtfolkart.com/) who was recently featured in a National Magazine: Where Women Create http://www.wherewomencreate.com/ which commemorates creative women and the places that they work in. And Jeannie’s comment when it was all over and done: “This is just the beginning.” YOU GO GIRL.
“Around the walls hung the corpses of men. In the breeze from the corridor their rotting bodies swayed. Some had been reduced to skeletons, their bones clicked against one another.
What really scares you? The ghostly white mask of Michael Myers…which is just a Captain Kirk (Wm. Shatner) mask with a few minor adjustments and a white paint job…not an object that one would normally think as of scary now is it. And even though Shatner’s acting wasn’t always academy award winning it rarely (at least in my case) cause chills to run down ones spine….while looking at Michael (who was actually played by multiple people) makes one look behind them and to wander is someone might well be lurking in the shadows with a very big knife.
How about dogs—unless you’re a Cynophobic (yep that’s the official name for people who are afraid of dogs), but for most of us it doesn’t bring fear to our thoughts…but dogs specifically black ones have a way of turning up in my ancestors evils…From the ones that roam the barren stretches of the English Moors—which probably was the inspiration for Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles which Sherlock proved was just a regular dog–abet large and vicious…but nothing ghostly or supernatural about it. There are also stories of black dogs appearing in passage ways to the gallows in London’s hell houses that were once the prisons and there are still legends of them pacing the same areas to this day in these ancient ruins.
Interestingly enough the Outback in Australia has a legend of a Devil Dog–a man shaped creature that sleeps buried in the dunes which shifts to the canine shape when the Butch Bird shrieks and arises in this dog form to kill everything within its reach. Oh and don’t forget King’s Cujo…who was a good dog till he got a bad disease.
“In the moonlit clearing, a pack of disembodied heads gobbled insects. Through mouths full of half chewed bugs they gibbered curses and clamored for human flesh.”
So what brings screams of horror to you and what makes you toss sleepless into the wee hours of the night for fear of what might be lurking just out of the beams of your night light or under your window. For me it’s Lovecraft–the horrid creatures with other worldly names that live in caves or beyond those caves which are connection to other dimensions and times. I love Stephen King and King read Lovecraft–but I never feared the night after reading King, I’m sturdy stock–but Lovecraft gave me chills and had me looking about for the things that await the poor, powerless humans that I am a member. It doesn’t help that they found the author insane—was that why he wrote what he did or was he insane because what he wrote about was really there and drove him so…that’s what I think of when the night seem frightening.
I usually find movies less scary than books, my imagination draws on my personal fears more readily from the written word which often leaves more to the imagination, while Hollywood doesn’t know the worst that lurks there–what they come up with are not nearly as scary as what lurks within most of our minds.
The Exorcist with it’s green pea vomit and twirling head was not early as impressive as the book. Rosemary’s Baby Demon again was to me was a shadow of the book. I love Psycho for exactly the reason I don’t watch more horror movies now day—the gore gets repetitious and even a bit—“Yawn, I wander if I have time for a bathroom break” one can never accuse anyone being anything but graphic anymore.
“Enslaved by a force he could not exorcise–Abdul heard his tongue utter words against his will. They drove his wife away forever, tricked his friends into murder and buried his son to sudden death.”
So what is scary to me in movies…Psycho was great, not in a way that the modern Horrible Movies are—the shower scene, one of the most scary in movie history never showed one blade blow going home and never one wound….just the chocolate syrup blood–it was a black and what movie–spiraling down the drain….and Tony Perkins setting there at the end (picture above) if he doesn’t send chills down your spin I’ll send Hitch (as in Alfred) to your home to say boo. Who else could take common variety of birds and make them brutal killers….he had the touch.
Other movies that I like but wasn’t necessarily really scared of: The Omen and the 2nd one—after that you got to be really good at that. The child had some great looks and I thought the best parts were the governess hanging her self at Damien’s birthday party and when they dug up his real mother’s grave–now that was evil.
The first Alien was the first time I ever saw a haunted house movie (where the ghost was a really scary Alien…but still) in outer space. And while this one did more guts and gore, it was a great new idea put in a new place while still using those scary parts to play with our minds.
“As the sound of the bell died on the air, the corpse leaped from the table. The head jerked from side to side. The bloodshot eyes bulged in their sockets. They so hypnotized the quailing widow that, like a rabbit cornered by hunters, she could not move. The body came toward her and sank hard, merciless fingers into her neck. At the same time a cracked, hollow voice cried out. “I am in hell! You put me there! I’ll make you pay!”
How about swimming. No not that movie…just really swimming…Studies show that people who swim a lot in chlorinated water are more likely to develop lung and kidney damage https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2015/02/is-the-chlorine-in-indoor-swimming-pools-hard-on-your-lungs/ . Then there’s the ocean, sharks, though I read somewhere that Bill Gates said you should be more concerned with mosquitoes than sharks. And Lake, at least in Florida often have alligators and water moccasin snakes and if they don’t get you the amoebas that you breath in in those same waters are a sure fire way to end it all.
On land you have muggings, auto accidents, slip and falls, floods, tornadoes, blizzards, hurricanes, earthquakes and there’s always the stray meteor or two.
You could hide in your house but then there’s all those black molds and so on. You get the idea, no where is without its fear factor and to one person what is a shield and a safe place to another is a terror of the possibility of injury and severe trauma both mentally and physically. Horror is in the mind, soul, and heart of the believer….SO WHAT SCARES YOU?
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“Clytemmestra, Queen of Agamennon, helped her lover to murder her royal spouse. She dreamed that she bore and suckled a poisonous snake and knew what the nightmare portended. Her children would avenge their father’s death and show no mercy.”
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“Of all the forms of madness that plagued the Aztec tribes, nothing was more dreaded than the insatiable craving for human flesh.”
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“Plague, brigards, hunger and the hot quarrel of the market place and marriage bed took their blood toll. The justice of Kings and priests was unforgiving. Thieves and heretics had no second chance. They learned their lessons with grim finality, strangled by a twist of the garrote or roasted alive by hooded executioners.
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“In a cave in the wilderness, burning candles marked the length of human lives.”
