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Countess Dracula

Elizabeth Bathory - Countess Dracula

 

 

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Creepshow 1

If you are looking for a Horredy (that is Horror Comedy for non-horror geeks), then tune into Creepshow, one of the few films  besides The Blob that gives me the Drive-In Theater feel. Now that I mentioned it, can you just picture being in the front seat of your corvette with one arm around your significant other and another around your soda, watching these 5 segments of comical horror? OK, now you know I'm really stuck in the Golden Era of Horror. Let's break this down shall we?

Father's Day - Segment 1

NEVER disappoint Daddy Dearest.  He takes your personal demons to his grave. Literally.

 

The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill - Segment 2

You live a lonely existence so what is left?  Deep down you wanted to put an end to your own misery but apparently never had the guts, so instead, the curse of the Green Grass prompted your decision. Don't worry, you didn't take the "easy" way out.  I would have done the same thing.

Something To Tide You Over - Segment 3

I don't care who you are, how much money you have, and what you own. You don't own ME! Are you narcissistic or just plain stupid?  If your wife leaves you for another man, there is obviously a reason!  Maybe she didn't want to be your prized possession on your shelf filled with trophy wives. Sorry your testosterone took such a major hit that you felt the need to bury your wifey and her boyfriend neck deep into the sand waiting for them to drown. Apparently you made the biggest mistake in denying the true love of these "Sand Crossed Lovers".  NOW it is YOUR turn to drown!

The Crate - Segment 4

LOL! Talk about inner beast!  Piss off your spouse, he WILL feed you to the monster in a monkey suit!  

They Are Creeping Up On You

Karma is a bitch!  You stomped on people all your life like they were helpless little bugs, and now it is their turn! YOU are the biggest bug of them all! I wouldn't trade places with you in a million years buddy.  

Everyday Horror

Many Horror fans can find entertainment in what we see on the big screen or what we read and still tell themselves by the end of the day "it's just fiction, these things don't happen in real life". But how many of us have ever given much thought to the things that are meant to really frighten us that we can equate to Horror?  For a moment as you read this post, forget about the entertainment aspect and acknowledge the real life Horrors. 

Ask yourself, what are you afraid of?  Disease? Job Loss? Divorce? Death? Anything that leaves you frightened, alone, vulnerable to external temptations, such as substance abuse, alcohol, promiscuity, etc.? How about what we read every single day about fatal car accidents caused by reckless driving? That would evoke every ounce of legitimate fear of getting behind the wheel. And robberies, break ins, shootings, bombings, drugs, rapes, and all the other traumatic events you see on the news? Understand that these unpleasant scenarios occur on a daily basis the very minute you wake up to embark on a brand new day. The only way our world would be immune from these terrifying occurrences is if everybody just stayed in their own homes and never stepped outside. However, we know that is very impossible to do so that leaves our lives open to risk. Weather or not you believe in demons in the literal sense, understand that they do exist. Because as mentioned above, outer temptations caused by a lonely and vulnerable state of mind, leads us to do something we know is wrong but we do it anyway, hence taking over our lives and who we are. When we lose our sense of self, we end up nowhere but in pitch darkness.

When you think of Zombies, you think of flesh eating monsters who look human and who were at one point normal like you and me. So did they just become like that due to chemical consumption? Think about drug addicts and alcoholics now. What do you think they are consuming? Chemically mind enhancing substances! When you see a drunkard who is a friend or family member at a bar or at a wedding, staggering, swearing,slurring,and shadow boxing, we all can see how beside themselves they are. The substance has taken over their ability to reason hence, they transform into a real life zombie. How many of you have actually seen the parallel between a zombie and an alcoholic? I know I have and trust me, it is traumatizing to see how a person you once knew and loved, just turns into, well, a monster.  

Are vampires real? Absolutely. Maybe there is no Count Dracula or an actual leader of the human canine wolf pack, but there are blood sucking leeches that drain your energy rendering you lifeless emotionally. We can list the users, abusers, liars, thieves, cheaters, backstabbers, and just plain old negative people who suck the very life out of you. These people are called "Emotional Vampires". Unfortunately no garlic or crucifix per se can ward off these human leeches. For a girl who is being bullied in school, a place where she is making the attempt to advance positively, or a woman who returns home to a husband who verbally and physically abuses her, then their environment that is supposed to be a secure one, transforms into Salem's Lot. 

The true fear factor here, in my opinion, is not the catalyst itself but the change. Unpleasant occurrences take place everyday, some beyond our control. What can we do about it? Staying strong keeping your head above water is easier said than done. Sustaining your faith in God, religion, or whatever Higher Power you believe in, much easier said than done. The losses in your life weather it be through divorce, death, or your own sense of self worth, does most often reel you into that ominous downward spiral unable to make you see resolution. And where resolution is amiss, so is your voice of reason. Your only sense of resolution may be drugs, alcohol, or in extreme cases, suicide.   

Technically, this world is one big horror film.   

  

  

Seeing Me

I was driving in the middle of the night.  It was pitch dark outside and I had taken the family van.  I drive down the main street that I live off of.  There is a Quick Mart at the corner a quarter mile down with a traffic light at that same intersection. At that time I turn right at the Quick Mart and I get lost!  In a neighborhood I know so well, I turn and get completely lost into the pitch darkness. 

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May

 

“If you can't find a friend, then make one".  Sound familiar?  May took that little  quote literally one step too far.  

Another saying is, "Idle hands are the Devil's Playground"?  Well in this case, it is more like "Lonely souls are the Devil's Center Stage", because loneliness is what led May to murder.  And May was lonely.  Her only friend was Susie, a doll who lived in a glass box.  Susie was her only friend her whole life.  As a child May was forced to wear an eye patch just to cover her lazy eye that her vanity case of a mother was very ashamed of, hence, alienating her from the rest of the children.  It is not hard to figure out where the social awkwardness stemmed from.  And for May, there was something dark inside her lonely existence. 

If you have seen May, everything should make sense in your mind.  All you have to do is study the life of Jeffery Dahmer then you will understand what kind of horrors exist within a lonely soul.  However, the issue is not just her being a crazy psycho who does away with those who have rejected her by dismembering body parts of theirs to her liking, in order to create that one "perfect" friend. May wanted that one friend she could touch and hold, and for her Susie didn't suffice.  After all, Susie was just a doll right?  But that bond between girl and doll, an inanimate object, somehow brought life into Susie.  And in my opinion, that is the real issue.  The bond not between May and her love interest Adam, or her lesbian fling Polly, but between her and Susie.  Susie had a dependency on May that would hinder any possibility of her having a successful relationship with another human being.  But Susie wasn't just a doll. I honestly believe she was a mirror image of May.  Not just in appearance but what she represents. May wasn't the only outcast.  Susie was locked in a glass box, unable to be free and unable to be touched.  There is a parallel to May in that regard.  May was bound by something holding her back, keeping her "locked in".  She was unable to interact with society in a typical way, and her "weirdness" invited rejection it seems.  We could blame it on her childhood.  She had absolutely no social skills and misdirected boundaries.  She wasn't entirely "free".  Her introversion was what kept her "locked in" just like Susie.  In a nutshell, May's emotional state was equivalent to a lifeless inanimate object; hollow.  With May leaning forward towards human interaction, rejecting Susie, Susie's glass box that imprisoned her would crack.  And with every ounce of rejection May would encounter, she got closer and closer to cracking as well.  And when Susie broke free, literally, so did May.

I don't have to remind you of the heinous murders May committed and why.  It goes without saying especially if you have seen the movie.  If you recall, Jeffery Dahmer and Ted Bundy had one overlying complex; rejection.  Although Dahmer hated to kill, he just wanted that one consistent partner who would never leave him.  And so did May.  May is every Criminal and Forensic Psychologists wet dream.  And I don't have a PHD or a Doctorate to conduct a clinical analysis on anybody, but it is not difficult to see that May was disturbed.  What her illness was, we can guess all night.  I honestly do feel in a way that she wanted to experience love and acceptance but did not really know how to go about sustaining it so she latched onto "perfect body parts" as a substitute. For her, love was objectified without her realizing it.   At least, while the person rejects her, their body parts wont once she does away with them right?  So in a psychologically twisted way, was this normal? 

From beginning to end we knew how desperate May was to find that "love".  So desperate that she gave her right eye for that one true love...literally.