Why do I torture myself like this? I’m reading (not for the first time) a book called Dangerous Beauty and it so horrific. Worse that the worst slasher film you will ever see, and I am not a fan of slasher-cum-horror films.
But the horror in real life is far worse than what writers can dream up.
The most horrific film I have ever seen is Roman Polanski’s The Pianist. I had nightmares for months. I will never watch that film again because it was so horrific. It made Schindler’s List look like a Teletoon cartoon.
God, the nightmares are all around us and we just keep perpetuating them . . . most definitely more horrorful than any Grimm’s fairy tale about being eaten by wolves.
Seems the Grimm bros. suffered from writer’s cramp when it called for telling a real horror story . . .
Ha! I had forgotten about The Pianist (I know, how could I??!). Very strange film.
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Very strange, very, very brutal. The violence is the most realistic I've ever seen . . . throwing an old man in a wheelchair off his sixth-floor balcony . . .
ReplyDeleteBeating a 9-year-old kid to death . . . horrible. I will NEVER watch it again.