Everyone has their own personal horror movie characters that they just love to hate. Some people may hate them because they disagree with their motives or because of their evil and manipulative natures. But I really hated those old movie monsters because they could make me piss in my pants from intense fear!
Take Pinhead, from 'Hellraiser' fame. That guy has more nails in his face than my entire house and the theme of him and his Cenobite friends being explorers of forbidden pleasures aka horrendously brutal ways to torture, deflesh, and utterly destroy someone made my grow goosebumps the size of gigantic warts. The fact that they were all dressed for what seemed to be really twisted BSDM and bondage scenes didn't help either. It was however the unreal voice and performance of Doug Bradley in his signature role that made it all the more terrifying and traumatic for me. His cold, intelligent and unfeeling delivery made it absolutely impossible for me to get even a wink of sleep. Needless to say I was scared of meeting big, bald guys for the rest of the year.
And just when I thought that I could rest on my laurels and watch television to get my mind off supernatural terror, her comes Sadako and 'The Ring' to completely destroy my opinion on televisions completely. Now I couldn't watch any normal TV show or video without half expecting an outlandish looking female ghost to come out of the TV, freaky nails first. It's one of the most annoying (and definitely the scariest) fact about Asian horror villains that they seem to have very ambiguous motives to do what they do. Because they seem like motiveless and unstoppable killing machines, Sadako and her fellow Asian phantoms can be part of our collective psyches for a long, long time.
Movie monster bring out the best and worst in us. And for someone who has seen them all his life, I can definitely say that movie monsters like this are here to stay.
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