Recently, our guild met up to eat delicious food as well as discuss future WoW plots. Yes, we do this in public. We even had a whole conversation about how we could make computer bags with the emblem of our respective race/class, the Horde symbol, and patches with our guild image. I think we may have reached a new level of nerdom that day because we looked around awkwardly after we finished fangirling and realized everyone was completely serious.
Now, my guild finally got me to see the film Cabin in the Woods and it was brilliant! I love how it made fun of horror films, but was intelligent about it. The next day Dwyn and I decided to go see Sinister and we are even making plans to see Silent Hill Revelation on Halloween day!
It's awesome to have a friend that enjoys the thrill of horror films. I grew up in an insanely Mexican household where to even bring such a film in the house was asking for evil to get me. So, you can imagine my mom's reaction when I received a Chucky doll for my birthday.
The best part is that we are all from a hispanic background. I can talk to my friends about going to a Witch Doctor to solve all my spiritual and health needs and they get it. Which is probably why we laughed so hard at the Paranormal Activity movies. Seriously, you can't grow up with a bunch of wards to guard from evil, and hear the creepiest stories, go into the movie theatre, and expect Paranormal Activity to be scary.
Stephen King wrote this interesting article on why we seek out horror, why is it we like to scare ourselves. It delved into the human psyche, societal norms, and vicariously living our darker nature through these darker films. I can't argue I could see where he was coming from. However, horror to me is different. I love these films because it makes my childhood normal.
Tarot cards, spiritual possession, the paranormal world... I am a part of a culture that heavily believes in it. (This is also why you never see a hispanic in horror films, because we know better, and would have started running at the first sign of something unnatural.) Most horror films have some kinda of "other world" premise and I kind of love that about these films.
Although, unfortunately I think I've played so much WoW it's become even harder to get creeped out by horror. One of my favorite lands is the plaguelands, followed by undercity which is home to the undead. Yeah, now try spending most of your time playing in these creepy areas at 4 am in the dark. The worst had to be when we did the Scholomance dungeon. It was a school where dark warlocks are taught to reanimate the dead and create abominations from various monstrous body parts. Yep, sleep that night was hard after some of the stuff we ended up having to kill. However, I still can't help but find the story of the dead very sad. And if there is one thing almost every horror film has it's a sad factor. I love sad movies, as much as I end up cursing that I saw them.
It's funny because I remember I used to be terrified because some of the mexican folklore was creepy. Then I went on to discover Edgar Allan Poe and the rest is history. In hindsight this could also explain my love of Villains... but that is a thought for another day.
That being said I can't wait for Halloween! It's my favorite Holiday!
couldn't find an appropriate picture so I went with halloween at disney world =P
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