Life After Abbey

Why I, a 31-year-old man, thinks a horror movie from 1979 with is one of the scariest movies of all time, I don’t know. Phantasm was one of my first horror movies.

Maybe it was the time and the place. The soundtrack music. The late night watching as a kid. The fact that little metallic spheres could fly around on their own and kill people was a pretty scary. However, the young kids and their penchant for having sex in cemeteries… that’s a little weird to me. But all of it, combined, made for a creepy movie for me. Alice, Sweet Alice and The Shining also had the same effect on me.

But I think it was those movies that opening up my viewing habits, making it easier to watch more garbage or creative expression. You make your own assumptions.

But the last few years have been scary in both the movies and in real life.

The movie Saw came along a few years ago and has been made into six sequels while creating a new genre. Torture porn, I think they call it.

Now there’s a new morbid movie making the rounds and I don’t know what to think of it. The movie’s called Deadgirl. It involves zombies and men taking advantage of a helpless woman.

How it got made, I don’t know.  I’m starting to squirm in real life.

But it’s timing concurs with the brutal gang rape of a 15-year-old girl in Richmond, Calif. As the community comes to grips with the fact that many stood and watched instead of calling for help or the police, one has to wonder if we put ourselves in this position.

Are movies becoming real life or are they just taking real life and putting it into a movie format?

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