Julia_Bird
08-10-2005, 10:16 AM
Okay, at the beginning of the summer, I got this book called "The Monster Show: a Cultural History of Horror." I've read it twice already. It turns out, horror movie monsters have a lot more to do with sex than you might think.
Forget Jason and Michael Myers slicing up people because they're having sex, dig this:
In the book there are 4 monster archetypes: Dracula, Frankenstien's monster, Jekyll/Hyde and the Sideshow Freak.
Dracula is dead, so he can't get it up. He gets his jollies through his teeth.
Doctor Frankenstien, a newly wed, is so obsessed with his experiments that he abandons his wedding night rite in favor of his laboritory.
Frankenstien's monster, there for, represents this idea of, "This is my baby, I made it all by myself. I didn't need a woman to help me!"
Jekyll/Hyde doesn't need a wife either. He just drinks a potion and splits in half, like a stressed out aboeba.
The Freak, in days of old, was a deviation that seemed to spawn randomly from otherwise normal copulation.
Forget Jason and Michael Myers slicing up people because they're having sex, dig this:
In the book there are 4 monster archetypes: Dracula, Frankenstien's monster, Jekyll/Hyde and the Sideshow Freak.
Dracula is dead, so he can't get it up. He gets his jollies through his teeth.
Doctor Frankenstien, a newly wed, is so obsessed with his experiments that he abandons his wedding night rite in favor of his laboritory.
Frankenstien's monster, there for, represents this idea of, "This is my baby, I made it all by myself. I didn't need a woman to help me!"
Jekyll/Hyde doesn't need a wife either. He just drinks a potion and splits in half, like a stressed out aboeba.
The Freak, in days of old, was a deviation that seemed to spawn randomly from otherwise normal copulation.