To Scream or Not to Scream
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:47 am
I remember being young and seeing a late night Hammer horror flick with Barbara Steele seriously bound to a post and screaming her lungs out. She was great at it too. I loved the feeling I got from that and the idea that this woman was so utterly helpless that the only option she had left was this primal noise making. A few years later I dated a "screamer" or two and I guess that completed the connection. Really enjoyed a good scream ever since. At least until...
Dakota Fanning in Spielberg's dreadful War of the World's remake. That little girl was the same age as my daughter and spent most of the movie screaming her brains out. She was really, really, good at it too. Nothing in a movie has unnerved me as much as that since I was about five.
Nowhere near as interested in screaming girls anymore.
The point of this whole preface is to ask how everyone else feels about a screaming victim as she's sucked under. Does it work for you? Is it a distraction? Does it appeal to you on a caveman level just as the quicksand probably does? Is whimpering better?
How does everyone else feel?
Dakota Fanning in Spielberg's dreadful War of the World's remake. That little girl was the same age as my daughter and spent most of the movie screaming her brains out. She was really, really, good at it too. Nothing in a movie has unnerved me as much as that since I was about five.
Nowhere near as interested in screaming girls anymore.
The point of this whole preface is to ask how everyone else feels about a screaming victim as she's sucked under. Does it work for you? Is it a distraction? Does it appeal to you on a caveman level just as the quicksand probably does? Is whimpering better?
How does everyone else feel?