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 A new blog to contain answers to prompts |
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas "  became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one. Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.  |
| Prompt: Horror Genre Do you like the horror genre, and what was the first scary movie you saw or the scary book you read if you remember it? ----------- I do appreciate the horror genre since a writer or a movie-maker can use horror to say difficult things very efficiently. But like it, no. I don't like it as a genre. Anything nasty, if and when used only to scare people out of their wits, feels unpleasant to me. During my earliest of years, my mother, who was a big storyteller, used giants as her horror elements when she told me her stories. My first scary story, therefore, was Jack and the Beanstalk, if I'm remembering correctly. Then, later, when an aunt took me to the movies to watch Snow White, later Cinderella and others, I remember hating Snow White's witch stepmother and the same happened with other story characters. Then, when I read a few ghost stories and hauntings and such, later on, I developed a phobia against the dark. Luckily, it didn't last very long. In spite of that, at times, I watched horror films with tales of creatures stalking humans or serial killers with traps of horror or spirits haunting a home and such. I never understood the internal or central idea in some of them, maybe because they didn't have a decent lesson or an understandable motive in the first place. Except, maybe, scaring people for no reason is a motive. I guess where horror goes, my favorite has to be the Phantom of the Opera. I took the story as a tale of love, despite the scary Phantom. But is it really a tale of love? The Phantom, as a character, might say he was deeply in love with Christine; however, he loves his obsession, not the girl. Maybe the Phantom doesn't really know what a really healthy relationship is like. So, in general, horror, is not my usual pick, as I don't normally volunteer to read a book or see a movie within the horror genre because I believe even the worst things can be said in a much nicer way. Still, chills or thrills, horror films and books have drawn many people into the genre. With that fact in mind, who am I to put a whole genre down! |
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