Five Reasons to Watch Movies that Hurt You, Haunt You, and Make You Want to Vomit

Welcome back to Horrorhead , a pillar where we explore the intersection of horror and scifi . I was n’t put up a horror movie fan , I made myself one through years of careful pattern and bookish watching . Everybody has an origin story , and mine start with the pulsing , gooey strands of sludge that enclose and destroyed every single point - of - view character in the 1970s version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers . I was so young that I missed the political apologue about Nixon , and the put-on about how Spock plays one of the pod mass . I crunched down into the faux velvet movie theatre seat , question if there was a agency to twist out of the narrative but still make it through . My first discovery come then : If I plugged my ears , blocked out the heart - beating soundtrack , I could survive the foreign invasion .

I still use this little survival chemical mechanism to get through the scary picture in pic . It ’s amazing how covering your ears , rather than your eyes , makes it all much more supportable . Plus , I would n’t desire to omit the best part : the spatter of gore when the infected peeress explodes ; the crunch of the ogre ’s gigantic mouth through the annoying dude ’s neck ; the boiling pocket billiards of bloodslime where the ladies stab each other with stone - climbing equipment while a monster looks on ; the giant alien saturnalia wheresome poor mug gets break up and wipe out .

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So I have trained myself to watch horror movie , using little tools like fingers - in - the - ears and watching so many flick in the genre that I sleep with what will happen before the music director does . And I ’m willing to admit that I pay a picayune cost in my electricity beak every month . That ’s ripe : I ca n’t sleep without leaving the hall light on . I ’ve catch too many excellent evisceration packed into my imagination to ever sleep thoroughly again .

Why do I do it ? Why do we all do it ? Here are five reasons — they may not be right reason , but I guarantee that they are dead on target .

To Survive

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As I have already pointed out with my small story about Invasion of the Body Snatchers , part of the play of every repugnance motion-picture show is getting through it awake . I am a immobile believer that the right-hand manner to see horror is not to distance yourself from it , but to plunge in and let yourself be completely credulous and scared . Sure the monster in Neil Marshall ’s amazing spelunking horror flick The Descent was a small cheesy , but take in those women get deeper and profoundly into the dark tunnels , more and more lost , squeezing through the claustrophobic , muddied spaces and into madness — if you get yourself feel the revulsion of the situation , you ’ll be thrummingly high on relief when the flick terminate .

To Take Your Secret Thoughts to Their Most Extreme — and Laugh

When I first take care Stuart Gordon ’s excited doc gorefest Re - energizer , it was like a revelation . There were all these gross encephalon - mental process scenes , and brainless zombies , and people drooling profligate . And that was dear , but I ’d been over that terrain before . But then came the moment of pure breakout brainiac . The headless zombie spoiled guy , whose eubstance carries his head around in a bowling bag , finally kidnaps the lady he ’s been require to pilfer up with . His soundbox strap the peeress to a medical table , and proceeds to jam his severed head between her wiggling legs . He ’s giving her psyche ! Also , holy crap what the screwing . Director Gordon WENT THERE . I mean , he was n’t afraid to just show you the most fucked up thing he could perchance imagine . How could even your weirdest private thinking ever seem disturbing once you ’ve laughed at the most sleep together - up affair in the population ? Same goes for the moment in Frank Henenlotter ’s Brain Damage where the primary grapheme ’s member - determine parasite hides in his jeans and protrude out to eat up the brains of a little girl who is just prove to give him a nice cock sucking . Damn . I will never feel weird about any of my random fantasies ever again , because they ca n’t top what Henenlotter actually commit to take .

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To Let Everyone in on Your nightmare

All of us have dingy thought , but likely some of us more than others . I ’m one of the I with the radical - super - dark thoughts — and my dreams are even worse . But the whole situation becomes a infernal region of a lot more bearable , and even fun , when some of those dark thoughts are realized in film . After all , most of our benighted thoughts are n’t really unique or particular . That ’s why I will always care for David Cronenberg ’s frantic gynecologist motion picture Dead Ringers . Those gynecological tools for mutant women , pictured below ? Oh yeah , I imagined stuff and nonsense like that about twenty million times before I saw them in his pic . And now I can force all my protagonist to think about them with me when we learn the flick together . Same survive for the lady impregnate by aliens in Slither , who grows to the size of a b before explode with all those spermatozoan - mold baby aliens going everywhere . sickish , but I ’ve woolgather that one too . Welcome to my brain . dainty to have company in here !

To Speak the Unspeakable

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It may be hard to pronounce what ’s wrong with your city , your sex , or your relationship with your chief . That ’s why revulsion does it for you , in grisly , unsparing detail . While the movie Akira is usually billed as pure scifi , anybody who has find out the grotesque physical mutation - plosion of the mobster - psychical Tetsuo at the end have sex that it ’s also a terrific look at the unspoken but well - known psychological consequences of poverty in the city . And anyone who has ever quietly suspected her foreman might be hold in the fabric of reality was rewarded by that fit in The Matrix when Neo is kidnapped by Agent Smith , told to be a good petty worker , and then torture and embed with a flyspeck golem while his mouth is sew shut . In a few months , when Frank Henenlotter ’s latest movie Bad Biology hits theaters , we ’re about to get a good dose of unexpressible sexual scare in a tale of a guy whose jumbo cock is both detachable and addict to drug — so it ’s always running away to make some dope . I roll in the hay the feeling . But I would n’t have been able-bodied to tell apart you about it without the help of Henenlotter ’s celluloid .

To Shove a large Spiny Stick Up Rationality ’s Ass

The great part aboutscience revulsion , full of mad doctors doping themselves with Hyde blood serum and natural philosophy experiments conk wrong , is that they are a slap in the nerve to so - called rationalness . How many times have you heard someone account the “ rational matter to do ” and know that it was also the unsound , scariest thing to do ? Sure , it was “ noetic ” to seek to get sample of those extraterrestrial in the first Alien movie ; and it was “ rational ” to put that futuristic Prozac in the air of that major planet in Serenity that created the rapin , cannibalizin ’ Reavers ; and it was rational to genetically organize dinosaur for a cool new musical theme park in Jurassic Park . All those thing were done with pure science in judgement ( and a little profits ) . My level ? Scientific rationality is great and all , but scifi horror is here to prompt you suckas that sometimes you need to see with your value-system and all that maudlin crap before experimenting on people ’s brains or messing around with outer - infinite superweapons that you do n’t understand . Your skill wo n’t save you when the Hulk comes around to beat your drear screwing .

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