Horror and Maturity
We all enjoy horror only when we were young. Initially, the concept of horror involved with monsters, ghosts and so on. For example, I got shit scared on watching Freddy Krueger. Most frightening movie I watched in my childhood, that haunted me for days, was the movie – Bromstocker’s Dracula. It was always ghost and monsters that scared me in my younger days.
As I got old, like after 16+ years, it didn’t spook me. I was into young adult things at that time. The Vampires that I scared, on watching them suck the blood, were having romance. The werewolves that were gory to the core (In Van Helsing) were doing romance. It’s not I had watched similar movies in my childhood but when I watch it now, it didn’t scare as much as it did back then.
The concept of horror had changed from monsters to humans. The things that started haunting me were never monsters but human. For example, the serial killers, witches and so on…
This didn’t make me to dislike monsters, instead the horrifying effect I had on them got lessened. Also, monsters were used as a tool in action movies. That was so cool that made my liking towards monsters to a new level. The Underworld movie franchise was a great example which I watched recently.
But there was another change in my concept of horror. I started enjoying the quality of horror in any entertainment mode (be it TV Shows, movies or books). Last year, when I was waiting for my job, I had a month of holiday. On that period, I watched this amazing TV Show called The Haunting of the Hill House. It had all the horror elements. It didn’t scare me, but I loved to watch it.
I loved to experience the haunting visuals and music of that TV Show. Now I started loving horror shows instead of getting scared. If anyone argues with me about the logic loopholes in the horror movies, then the answer I would give them would be, ITS HORROR. ITS SUPPOSED TO BE OUT OF LOGIC. AND THAT’S THE BEST PART OF IT.
I don’t believe in god and that proves that I don’t believe in ghosts. But I like the concept of it. The concept of God is a total shit without any creativity to it. But the concept of ghosts (even when it lacked the logic) were good to see. And only in the horror themed movies (or TV Shows or Books), I can able to understand the grey shades of human beings.
When I watched The Shining or the Hannibal series, I never got frightened, but I enjoyed watching the grey shades of the lead characters. That’s what I am talking about.
And these types of fantasy, mythology and human values made me to watch Supernatural!
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