With Halloween comes the horror

    It’s Halloween night folks. Though we don’t have much to do with the day, we do know a lot about this commercially successful festival of the west. Pumpkin carvings with candles in them. Hmmm, food in candle light, so romantic.

    All I know is that, this is the day (or night) when the dead allegedly visit the living world, for what purpose I don’t know. Maybe they get a break from their busy schedule (Halloween is a holiday you know). So, the clever living people dress up as the dead to confuse them. This reminds me of a scene from ‘Walking Dead’ comics where the guys smear zombie blood on themselves so the zombies will ‘think’ them as their own kind.

    This is the time when little kids dress up as cute paranormals like grim reaper, witch, vampire, werewolf, Frankenstein’s monster, Jack O’ Lantern etc and solicit/beg/threaten their neighbors for treats. This is also the time when teenagers can officially dress up as the same freakishly scary characters but with ‘slutty’ being the first name of the character like ‘slutty vampire’ (yes, I saw ‘Mean Girls’). Mother Earth apparently got fed up and sent SANDY to wash off the excessive makeup.

    During a festival like this we develop this weird inclination towards the paranormal. I am so inclined already that any more inclination and I’ll fall flat on my face and will look like a paranormal creature myself. Anyway I’ve got some horror movies on download list and will be watching tonight hopefully.

According to tradition, if a person wears his or her clothes inside out and then walks backwards on Halloween, he or she will see a witch at midnight. I would love to try that tonight but I’m afraid our place is out of the witch’s jurisdiction.

    But this question arises again and again. Are ghosts for real?

    

    I have a few experiences of my own, which I’ll be posting soon. We have so many videos on YouTube and thousands of pictures claiming to be real ghosts floating all around the internet. This just means that we are more interested in the darker side. What is most scary is also the most interesting. There don’t seem to be any photo claiming to be real picture of God.

    

    But then again science ruins the fun calling them fake. While we try to communicate with ghosts using Ouija Board, science calls it Ideo-motor effect.

    Vampires are impossible because our own existence implies their inexistence. If there was a first vampire (namely Count Dracula) he would feed on some and turn them to vampires and they in turn create some more. Some mathematician got bored and did the math and declared that the whole world would be vampireville  in a couple of months. So that myth is busted.

    

    Same goes to werewolves. Busted!

    Witch which (homophone alert) actually meant wise women, were women doing scientific experiments. They were called witches and were hunted down by the religious people who considered it black magic (or a threat to their religion).

    

    Frankenstein is not actually a monster. Frankenstein’s monster is the monster. Frankenstein is actually the name of the doctor who unites or stitches together body parts from three dead bodies and gives it life (in a novel, don’t worry). The author probably pondered over how to breath life into a dead body and then realized it was impossible, so she just wrote that the method can’t be explained as other people may try to redo the filthy process of giving life. Smart move Mary Shelly, smart move! So the whole exclamation “IT’S ALIVE!!” is a big BS. Dumbledore so wisely said “no magic can bring back the dead”.

    

    ‘Bring back the dead’ topic is incomplete without mentioning zombies. Zombies are the benchmark for horror these days. The girl runs wildly, she slips and falls, while the boy next door she had a crush on, comes crashing and ‘eats her up’, literally. And so starts every zombie movie.

  

    Zombies, with the memory of a gold fish, agility of a panda and IQ of a coffee machine, are the scariest thing to walk/crawl/moan on the earth, though they are dead as a dodo. They are the most frequent themes in horror be it games, books, movies or TV series. Shooting people in a game is age restricted but shooting zombies is perfectly cool. It’s like a training the government is giving us. Some people in the west are convinced that a zombie apocalypse is so dangerously imminent that they have designed their houses in an anti-zombie fashion with all the long lasting food supplies and weapons.

    

    We can’t blame them. When you see such movies, the cause of the necromorph (virus, military research, infection or simply a spell book) are so credible that we wonder what we’ll be doing if such a day comes around. Well, I’ll be doing the oldest trick known to mankind. Dress up like them and hope they don’t see through the make up, just like our western buddies on Halloween.

    Happy Halloween Friends. J

(Comment on how you’ll survive a zombie apocalypse, while I go shoot some zombies in Left4Dead game)