Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. -Nietzsche

It's November 9... And everyone is flaunting their poppy pins.

The only question I have is for how much longer? Seriously... WW1&2 were pretty brutal events. And yes many many good people died for the cause and for that they are "Heroes" to some extent but I mean really.... Can't we let it be yet?

All I want to know is how much longer are we going to continue this charade of honoring things long past.

Like are kids in fucking 2305 going to be sitting around on Nov.11 still singing the same broken record about Flanders field and all that?

Shouldn't we be I dunno... putting our energies into something more important? Can't we just let the past be the past and not bring it up anymore?

And it's not like anything new about those events is going to be uncovered, every year the same old ceremony, gun salutes and flag waving.
....Great, cause that's what will prevent WW3 from happening.... The whole Remembrance thing is so trivial and uneventful, if you want to remember those who gave their life for the cause then you should do so everyday because without them we'd be all fucked... or German or Jap.

The whole thing is exactly like 9/11... how much longer is that shit going to be going on? It happened... sorry, but deal with it. we don't need to be sitting around singing Kumbaya for the next 50 years because it just happened..... Get over it already, live your damn life and just let it go.

Since it's Halloween, I thought this would be fitting

When was the last time you saw a scary movie?

I mean really really saw a scary movie, not a movie that made you startled or jump but a movie that made you unable to sleep at night?
Something that gave you a creepy uneasiness in your mind or soul?

Was it "The Exorcist" or "Suspiria" maybe it was "Poltergeist" or "The Thing" maybe "It" or even "Paranormal Activity"?

I want to first say that... scary movies is a dying art. I mean there are more than plenty but there are only very very few that actually scare. Scary movies now a days are about slashers, gore and a high body count.... or torture.  OOOooooooOOOoooooo, I'm shaking in my boots.... I have only one word for scary movies of late and that's "lame". They just aren't scary at all.

Maybe it is just me because I do know some people and I'm sure you do too, that are just unable to watch scary movies, some people can't even be in the same room as a scary movie playing on TV. But what really scares people? It's only a movie right?
Most people seem to be afraid of things from their childhood. Some people I knew saw "Chucky" when they were kids and now are scared of dolls. Some people saw "It" and can't handle clowns anymore and that's cool, I mean whatever floats your boat.
When I was about... around 8 years old, I saw "Hellraiser 2" with Pin head and all his pointy glory and gore, he rocked my world and I was hooked on scary movies unflinching and unphased. I was in a state of complete facination with the blood and violence.
As I grew I began to see the "real" horrors and beyond with movie like "Cannibal Holocaust" or "Rosemary's baby"

The last "scary" movie I watched was "To the Devil a Daughter" a classic movie made in '76 by Hammer Film Production. It starts slow but it's a fun movie, not scary but for its time it was definitely pushing the edge. It's very much like "Exorcist" by today's standards it's a hilarious movie but back in the day it was appalling to many.

The last movie before that I saw was "Paranormal Activity"... wow.... zzzzZZZZZzzzzzZZZZzzzzzz, total sleeper. Blair witch meets... something really boring like knitting. The cinematic style of "POV" shaky hand camera is so 10 years ago. I watched it alone in the dark, trying to scare myself but instead I almost fell asleep, the movie is so predictable... it's... like the sun... it comes up every day. I have no idea how the hell people got scared of this movie or why people "demanded" it. It was booooooring. I even like ghosts and think they could be real yet this movie did nothing for me.

The only horror movie I've seen in recent memory is... "Antichrist" and wow was it fucking spectacular. It might not be classified as a "horror" movie per say but it's definitely has horror elements in it. It was one of the most beautifully cinematically shot movies I've ever seen but also kind of disturbing. It wasn't overly gory like say... "Ichi the Killer" but it had it's squirmish moments and some real deep psychological/philosophical points to it and in fact I'm still not entirely sure what the movie was all about. I would definitly put Antichrist up there in the realm of "horror" movies.

Anyways there has been a great evolution in horror cinema.
From the original black and white horror/suspense/thriller to the new school of  horror/gore/slasher films.
Some where along the way the most crucial ingredient to horror films was lost or perhaps it was destroyed.

Classic horror films have something horror films today don't.... and that's a good story.
Modern horror films have something Classic films don't.... gore.
Most young kids today cannot stand to watch black and white movies, hell some of them have probably never seen an entire black and white film which is very sad.. and in fact those kids will never need to watch the original as Hollywood keeps remaking the greats movies of old 'cept... somehow... shittier.
Back the the point... old horror movies really built up the suspense and without CGI it made filming certain things impossible so they sometimes never showed you the "monster" but rather let your imagination run wild, the whole you can scare yourself better than any movie idea.

Personally I think for the most part... the horror genre is done and dead. No one will ever make a scary movie again.
I am one of many from the newer generation completely desensitised to everything and disenfranchised to care about anything.
Movies play to your imagination but in the end they're only movies. The real noose of the "horror" genre is the internet.
I've seen the most brutal and aweful things on the internet over the years and no movie will ever EVER come close to the horror I've seen on the internet.

So without further adieu, gaze upon the horrors of the internet....if you dare... (not for the faint of heart)... actually I've decided against linking the videos or embedding them since... well... they are what they are so I'll just list a few

2girls1cup -----> Everyone's seen it, not a big shocker, gross but not scary, and you all know where to find it

Curb stomp ----> as made famous by American history X, meh, it's ok... what actually scary is how many curb stomp videos there really are on the net, fucking kids these days...

Iran ---> What happens on Iran on a daily basis

let me see what else... Juba the sniper killings... people being shot to death by Juba the sniper in the Middle East, all on youtube or google videos

umm.... BME Pain Olympics ----> brutal, extremely graphic.... just check out BME.com for some sick ass shit and I mean sick, twisted shit

man fucked to death by horse.... i can't remember the link but the title says it all, it's on the internet somewhere just look hard enough

Ever seen any good Beheading videos? I remember years and years ago maybe... 10 atleast 10 years ago when the internet was still kind of new, there was a great foreign (maybe russian?) beheading video in a forrest before all the Middle east beheading videos. Yes, some look fake but I'm fairly confident some are real. Just look at the search results  Results 1 - 10 of about 1,160,000 for beheading video. statisically speaking at least 1 out of say 1,000,000 is real

Ever been to the world of death? or have you ever wondered what a man's head looks like after being shot by a shotgun?

Does anyone know how many ghost videos are out there? fuuuuuck me, there's 1000 "scarier" videos out there than that of "paranormal activity"

What else does your sick and twisted mind crazy this Halloween??? What ever it is... it's on the internet

The point is horror movies used to give people the unimaginable. The shit they've only ever heard whispered. Classic horror built up the suspense till you were on the edge of your seat.. kids these days are all OCD and can't keep their attention fixed on the woman who's slowly creeping towards the door, ever so slowly, the music matching the pace, then a shot of her feer, moving one step at a time, slow, rhytemic, then perhaps a facial expression, her hand slowly reaching, the door knob, the hand, the hand and the door knob on the same frame, her facial expression, her hand on the door knob, her slowly turning, watching the knob twist millimeter by millimeter..... and you're either capivated or sleeping by the time the door actually opens.

Now with the over flow of information in this technological wonder of ours... nothing can scare me in a movie because I've seen it all before.
Everything has been done to death as long as you have the balls to look.
I once came across a picture of a man in the middle east who had just gotten shot in the head by a .50 caliber sniper rifle.
his body was laying in the streets and what was left of his head was undescribable.... bits and pieces were all over the street. a large splatter of red blood and pieces of skull fragmented everywhere, one of the eye balls was still intact laying about 4 or 5 feet away from the body.
I only rememer this because I stared at that image for at least 30-45 minutes examining every aspect of it because I was trying to decide if it was real or not and I decided it was pretty fucking real.
15 minutes later I open the picture back up because I'm not sure anymore...

He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision—he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath—"The horror! The horror!"

– Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

  

Edit:
Wow so less than 24hours and the studio has already taken the trailer down... ok, so it wasn't a "real" movie trailer but a bunch of leaked footage but my god did it kick some serious ass..

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