Signs that you are a horror film addict

Eventually, I realized that we, horror films fanatics, are like-minded people who swear by sharing the same taste in everything.

For a movie genre to survive in the long run, creativity plays a major role. But there is one genre that has its own loyal fans who would die to watch the same tried and tested formula again and again. Same old haunted mansion or some ominous forest, a pair of exclusive all-entities-seeing eyes of the children, inexplicable sleep disturbance at midnight, howling of dogs, sudden power supply cut off, candles producing vivid satanic shadowy imageries, eerily silent dark room that would give a high voltage jitters when suddenly someone knocks down over something and last but not the least, children who could talk to dark entities.

These are the points that one horror film addict wouldn’t mind seeing in every other movies. However, when this degree of patience of watching the repetitive sequences with the same amount of excitement and enthusiasm reaches the epitome of tolerance level, then is born the ultimate horror flick addict who couldn’t be more blessed than an ordained priest.

Let’s look at the following examples of situations that would determine whether or not you are an avid horror movie aficionado.

Situation No. 1

Imagine you are watching TV and suddenly there is a disruption in the broadcast. Where your mind immediately lead you after this episode?

If you immediately rush to the room that’s adjacent to your neighbour’s and press your ears against the wall to know if only your TV connection is cut off, then you are absolutely normal.

But if you sit there in the couch and expect a fully drenched girl in white, face fully covered with her hair, all of a sudden to pop out of a well and eventually come out of your Television set, then congrats... you have joined the elite group of horror film maniacs.

Situation No. 2

You see a winding staircase in a big house. Your next reaction?

You quickly climb up the stairs and from the top start sliding down the handrail. If you do this then you are just another regular person having “ordinary” childlike fantasies.

But if you quickly hide under a table and watch the stairs breathlessly, expecting an otherwise cute Japanese boy fully body painted in white to stare you from the top of the stairs or an ultra athletic lady descending down the stairs abnormally using her hands exhibiting some reflexive yogic moves almost dislocating all her collar and shoulder bones... then you have just confirmed that your brain’s one cerebrum absorbs reality and the other cerebrum converts it into phantasmagoria.

Situation No. 3

You see a tall man in a rock concert sporting a Chris Hemsworth inspired half-up hairstyle, wearing torn up clothes dancing out of control.

If you get into the groove and start shaking a leg inspired by his maddening dance, then you have just shed your inhibition and got into the grunge mood.

But if you think there is something suspicious in his activity and without wasting any time you start chanting, “in the name of the father, and of the son and of the holy ghost...” then you have just become a pro in associating almost everything to spectral phenomenon.

So these above mentioned second set of examples when seen in a person who would even consider the best romantic movie pair as Ed and Lorraine Warren (Pat Wilson and Vera Farmiga from Conjuring), then that person has surely surpassed all the levels of rational thinking and has become a certified horror flicks votary just like me. Yup, I am writing all these with my own experiences. Correlating everything with tons of horror films cliché scenes with our everyday boring life is so much fun.

Eventually, I realized that we, horror films fanatics, are like-minded people who swear by sharing the same taste in everything. Like:-

Our favourite vegetable – Pumpkin

Our favourite time – Midnight of 3

Our favourite bird – Crow... especially a murder of crows (Yup, that’s the perfect collective noun for the crows)

Our favourite TV show- Nothing. Blank vision that would show the face of a ghost.

Our favourite thing to forget- Car keys. Especially when a gory looking creature is after us, we just can’t find the keys to start up the car.

Our favourite toys- Annabelle and Chucky

Our favourite rite- Obviously exorcism

So after years of being a diehard devotee of horror pictures, I can now finally assure that there is absolutely nothing wrong with us, “The Supernatural” people’s thought process. It isn’t abnormal. Just a bit “Paranormal”.