Wings_of_pain
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You know the old-school author, he wrote at the mountains of madness, talked about Eldritch horrors, cosmic darkness that sort of thing. Movies like 84's The Thing we're inspired by this as well as Hellboy, many John Carpenter films.
Basically, it's boiled down to humans encountering something so horrible we are unable to wrap our minds around it. A maddening discovery where retreat into the mind is preferred over the reality that say some disgusting creature is the god of everything and toys with us at every moment.
•Mouth of Madness
•The Void
•The Thing
•Hellboy
•The Mist
•Dark City
•Event Horizon
•The Ritual
•Prometheus
And so yeah usually it's a story that has to do with humans facing the idea that we are not special. We are not unique. That we were not the first nor will be the last and are on the long list of animals that will have come and gone. It speaks to our anxieties of death and out origin and creation. I don't know, I suppose it deals with quite interesting themes so it always spoke to me more than say slashers.
Basically, it's boiled down to humans encountering something so horrible we are unable to wrap our minds around it. A maddening discovery where retreat into the mind is preferred over the reality that say some disgusting creature is the god of everything and toys with us at every moment.
•Mouth of Madness
•The Void
•The Thing
•Hellboy
•The Mist
•Dark City
•Event Horizon
•The Ritual
•Prometheus
And so yeah usually it's a story that has to do with humans facing the idea that we are not special. We are not unique. That we were not the first nor will be the last and are on the long list of animals that will have come and gone. It speaks to our anxieties of death and out origin and creation. I don't know, I suppose it deals with quite interesting themes so it always spoke to me more than say slashers.
