I think the scares are gone…or are they?
There’s a weird sensation when we find ourselves scared. Adrenaline is pumping our senses are more…sensitive, and your heart is beating a mile a minute. Fear manifests itself in many different ways for many different reasons. But the best producer of the scares are anything that’s associated with Halloween (only over a week away). I’m talking about the scary movies, and the haunted houses, and the pranks. Of course, there’s trick or treating for the kids and parties for the older people. Though are you ever too old to go to a Halloween party where most of the women have an excuse to dress scantily clad? Of course, maybe I’m too old as I’ve not been to a party like that. Or maybe I just don’t know the right people. Are you too old for those parties? Or is it just hard to get to?
Halloween is also the best for couples. Normally, and I’m not saying this is always the case, the guy must prove his bravery by besting scaring movies and those haunted mazes and houses, supposedly not showing the fear on their face. The ladies, for the most part, are the ones who cling to those brave men, either feigning fear or actually being scared because its supposed to be endearing. But with all the kinds of movies and video games and books out there, are we still scared? Have all those gory, zombie filled movies desensitized us from what’s scary? Of course, vampires have been ruined for many of us thanks to the Twilight series, with many claiming that vampires do not sparkle.
Ghosts aren’t considered scary, mummies and the Frankenstein are over, and werewolves are just fuzzy little dogs that turn into buff guys. Its amazing how things have changed with what scare the crap out of us. I think people will vehemently laugh and disagree with me, but I think the last thing that scared me was Paranormal Activity, mostly because I got absorbed in the idea that could be real. But the frights were mostly that jump out at you kind of scary. Gore doesn’t scare anyone anymore, with old school movies providing more laughs than fear. So what’s scary nowadays? Is it zombies that we’re so fascinated with? Will anything scare us again?
I think its a sad state of affairs that things don’t scare us anymore. Its a natural human thing to feel, and we’re so inundated with what’s supposed to be scary that it doesn’t work anymore. And I’m talking about the fabricated frights, not the real scary things like the world around us. That’s pretty freakin’ scary. Maybe if the fabricated stuff actually happened, if we actually bot pushed and pulled around by ghosts or attacked by vampires, or overtaken by zombies, we’ll be entertained more than freaked out.
