[Some thoughts I'd like to share]
I've watched horror movies since I was young, Bela, Lon Chaney, Karloff then Christopher Lee in the Dracula series he was in and on to the Exorcist and some more recent films. It's been said people like to be scared but, for me it was more of analyzing the lighting, music, camera work, knowing since watching the early films in my youth that all the blood and gore was fake and for shock value only.
One thing I know today is that there never was or will be a film that can hold a candle to the atrocities in/of the world/[humanity].
I have heard radio interviews from people, individuals who have lived through such atrocities as rapes, tortures and murders of whole families, villages, towns, people. Nothing compares to hearing the witnessed and personal accounts of things that are to a point unimaginable. No horror film has ever stirred my emotions to the core, like these personal accounts. It gives thought time and again to how men [99.9% of the time it's men] could commit such atrocities without conscious or regret. This clearly is about the men in military or civilian who are certifiable psychopaths. Poverty, abuse, stress, racism, power, can all be a part of a psychopaths' makeup or as some believe certain men are just born this way [??]. Many individuals who are in governments that know beyond a doubt that a genocide or atrocity is occurring are as guilty as the perpetrators IMO.
It's also a fact that so very few of these men are ever brought to trial or justice. The most dark, heinous horror filled crimes in/of humanity and no justice for victims or surviving relatives. What is in history, recorded, written, documented in film or video is as if a side note, a dark secret that is given little attention except for those that care to know, except for those, mostly women and children who can never forget.
I've watched horror movies since I was young, Bela, Lon Chaney, Karloff then Christopher Lee in the Dracula series he was in and on to the Exorcist and some more recent films. It's been said people like to be scared but, for me it was more of analyzing the lighting, music, camera work, knowing since watching the early films in my youth that all the blood and gore was fake and for shock value only.
One thing I know today is that there never was or will be a film that can hold a candle to the atrocities in/of the world/[humanity].
I have heard radio interviews from people, individuals who have lived through such atrocities as rapes, tortures and murders of whole families, villages, towns, people. Nothing compares to hearing the witnessed and personal accounts of things that are to a point unimaginable. No horror film has ever stirred my emotions to the core, like these personal accounts. It gives thought time and again to how men [99.9% of the time it's men] could commit such atrocities without conscious or regret. This clearly is about the men in military or civilian who are certifiable psychopaths. Poverty, abuse, stress, racism, power, can all be a part of a psychopaths' makeup or as some believe certain men are just born this way [??]. Many individuals who are in governments that know beyond a doubt that a genocide or atrocity is occurring are as guilty as the perpetrators IMO.
It's also a fact that so very few of these men are ever brought to trial or justice. The most dark, heinous horror filled crimes in/of humanity and no justice for victims or surviving relatives. What is in history, recorded, written, documented in film or video is as if a side note, a dark secret that is given little attention except for those that care to know, except for those, mostly women and children who can never forget.







