Sangre

[Pendragon]

Sangre

Is it the bright flash of the color blood gives splashed from the victim to the wall?
That final glazed look in an innocent eye, the looking around for one more?
I have always wondered why we glorify death, more and more movies to the cause,
Of some back alley terror with hate in his heart, and who knows how many dead after all?
They gleefully take us through the terrors of the Chicago Castle of H.H. Holmes.
They shock us with Psycho, based on a true and rather nasty tale of human degradation.
Then here comes Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber, meat pies and piles of bones.
And count how many Bonnie and Clyde take out before they themselves are blown to devastation.
And Jack, the Eternal Ripper, his bloody crimes become almost a national salute,
With arguments still going about the number of victims, who he was, a pattern of death.
Movies still try to answer the blood stained question, but no one knows the truth.
At evening in the twilight, they take you on a Haunted Tour of Bloody Jack.
And when they cannot find a real one to quench the public thirst for more blood:
They think: Jason! Yes. Freddy! Good, good. Michael! Marvelous. And make one up!

Pendragon
©12/26/07

[amanda_isabel]

"death-defying." often used to describe typically humanely impossible stunts and feats. "neck-breaking." don;t you die if you break your neck?

i think all of the "patronization" with these kinds of things is the fact that death is unknown to man. to him, it is the end of which he does foresee, but never exactly; it is the inevitable, for which he can choose to either prepare for or not. but it always turns out that he does. these kinds of things show that even if death may be inevitable, there are ways to make a date with it, pique its interests, then leave like you never had a date to begin with. the mortal soul finds comfort.

[kiz_paws]

Or maybe it is man's wolf-nature that lays just below the surface.....

Thought-provoking, Pen, and so true... :thumbs_up

[mazHur]

it's the fear of the Unknown which goes in the making of horror movies,,,,

Humans are part of everything, not necessarily wolves. I have seen doves as well!

Nice recap by Pen, Congrats.

[motherhubbard]

all of the movies I will never watch- It's not just mice that scare me.