Sunday, December 19, 2010

The Horror Icon of the Twen-teens

Its really been bothering me for a while but there might be a time when we run out of cool horror symbols to look up to.This has gone so far that its giving me nightmares! (I wouldn’t wanna go into details on this one)The sheer thought haunts me. As a lover of the horror and paranormal genre, its about time I do something about it!

Vampires used to be the coolest with their accents, bloodlust and style.But a certain SOMEBODY peed all over it. As for Werewolves, they weren’t really that cool to begin with coz they were hairy and they died from a metal used in feminine jewelry - LAME. Well, I don’t wanna be criticizing the already criticized, here (its like beating up a defeated old man… and my conscience would kill me, if I did so).

So getting back to our topic, lets continue discussing on who would get to be the NEXT HORROR ICON!!! Now, the ones that pose a serious threat to humanity would definitely be (you guessed it)ZOMBIES! Why? Coz they can be real! (Well, not as real as drunk aggressive retards; but these can be good zombie substitutes)They have what it takes to change the entire world and the way we live in it! The worst thing is – you can become one! To avail yourself of a zombie membership isn’t that hard of task either! No forms, no background checks, no verifications, no documentations, NOTHING! A bite is all that is needed and once you are a member, you can even invite you friends, family, bros, unsuspecting strangers, crazy old ladies who live with their cats, stereotypes, twilight fans, nerds and even drag queens! (caution – beware of those psychos with shotguns, baseball bats or anything that can crack your skull)

Now zombies DO have the potential to become the next horror symbols of the upcoming era (2011 -2020 : the twen-teens, as I would like to call it XD) However, we must be aware that the enemies of the horror circle might come up with something crappy to degrade zombie and steal their thunder for their selfish benefits. Example – Twilight : Apocalypse. (Where the world has been infected by a parasite and most of the human race has been zombified; that’s when the love story between zombies begins! God save us x_x)

SO we need a backup plan, just in case the zombies are taken to the ‘pink side’. Hence, the next in line are scary little girls. If you have a 5 year old sister who has a habit of walking in the corridor late at night, you would know exactly how scary that is. You couldn’t have possibly ignored them; they had been everywhere – The Exorcist, The Ring, Ju-On and more movies (that I’m too bored to list out right now) Well the key feature here is that they all are cute! That’s the whole point of scaring people! You have something cute and it suddenly becomes freaky; that comes as a shock (and that’s why the Japanese are so good at horror; simply because they are good at ‘cute’)

But instead of taking a risk, its safer to have backup for a backup! So, here comes the third contestant for the NEXT HORROR ICON! The most flexible, the most scientific, the smartest, the creepiest and the most REAL of them all – the Mad Scientist!! Why the Mad Scientist, you ask? Its simple. They made Frankenstein (here on, I will refer to the mad scientists as a group of people rather than just ONE person), they made Mr.Hyde. In fact, most of the super-villains out there are mad scientists, to begin with. (the list is SO long, I don’t even wanna start naming them)

Then, unlike zombies or little girls, they are smart! I’ll give you an example – a zombie is chasing you, you throw a piece of meat, he will stop chasing you and eat the meat. A little girl ghost is chasing you, you throw a Justin Beaver DVD, she’ll stop chasing you and run to her bedroom with the DVD. But if a Mad Scientist is chasing you, desperate to dissect your body, curious to know about your insides; nothing can save you, NOTHING! What’s worse? He might even have henchmen like the infamous Igor! (yes, the midget with a hump on his back, who wears a hood, lives in a castle and says stuff like “yesss mah-ster, the errangements have beeeeen maid”)

Besides, the other annoying factor about Mad Scientists is that they are unpredictable because of the gizmos and gadgets they might have up their sleeves. Who knows what that pointy thing in their pocket is used for? (oh wait, that was a pencil) Besides the pencil, they can do whatever they want! Like bring Frankenstein to life or make candy to control the little girl ghost or makeDolphins walk on land and other stuff that might seem kind of disturbing to common human civilization! (that’s why they live in castles on hills/cliffs where people can’t find them)

Then again there is the most threatening of qualities. THEY CAN BE REAL!! A person who is madly in love with science isn’t hard to find in different cultures these days. He can be the crazy looking old guy you see every day when returning home; who knows what he does behind closed doors? ^_^

Thus I rest my case to nominate the Mad Scientists for the next horror symbol of the twen-teens! THEY ARE COOL (and not to mention) SCARY, FREAKY AND DISTURBING enough to give you nightmares!!

Signing Off,
Traumatized Nem O_O

(PS – I wrote this to clear my mind so that I can sleep peacefully. But it seems to have backfired somehow coz I still can’t sleep) x_x"