Horror! Panic! Hysteria!

[keire_ke]

I think we're being coddled a tad too much, us students. What are they afraid of, a lawsuit? It took some insistence to get my tutor to muster up the courage to rip the piece I wrote to shreds (my heart!! *gasps*), but damn, I bloody well want it! How the hell am I supposed to work with "that's really nice"?

Today's session was on horror, and for some reason the guy managed to freak me out by talking about writing horror stories. Apparently, there is a guy who wrote a short story so gory and disgusting, that he's keeping count of how many people would faint while he's reading it. o.O On an also weird note, I got an email from one of my mates. She won't attend classes until we're done with horror, cause she's Christian. If you failed to notice the causality in the sentence, we're in the same boat.

Also! Tomorrow I'm going to see yami_tai! *beams*




Commissioned by merula31. You might want to camp out in her LJ for the ficcy! Heero looks so shy about the attention. ^______^

Comments

[seraphim-grace.livejournal.com]

gore can be powerful, i mean in like the black dahlia you only briefly see the body and so it slaps you in the face, but alternately the film was more powerful when you couldn't, and look at saw, you saw nothing in the first one, absolutely nothing at all, it all happened off screen so you filled in the blanks, I haven't seen 3 yet but 2 happened on screen so it was like, yeah, whatever.
the gore is made with caro syrup and when they were making the evil dead they had so much of it they were eating it out of the jar because there was no food and hwen they had food they poured caro syrup over it. Hmmm, gore covered pancakes. Bruce Campbell was using it as hair gel. makes you look at it in a whole new light, and you know the slime you get, the lovely clear shiny slime - it's KY jelly, no really.
so the alien was just a man in a suit designed to look like a penis covered in ky and splashing people with syrup (really!) does it sound so scary now.
and that's before you get into the male fear of birth, the omnipresent representations of male rape in that film, in which again, everything happened off screen or in very quick cuts. your imagination is what scares you.
Have you played fatal frame, there was a massacre which you never see, you see the people running and you see a splash of blood on his face, that's it, but you fill in the blanks and that makes it frightening.
I did a semester on horror at uni, and the psychology of it in relation to the gothic genre. I aced it too.