Classic Horror versus Modern Horror

[Pumpkin_Man]

I totaly agree. Put anyone under the right ammount of stress or subject them to the right ammount of persecution and they can become quite monsterous. I can't mention what she did, but I do remember when the Lorana Bobbit story was making the rounds. I truely believe she did what she did because the abuse she went through drove her to the breaking point. The 'wearwolf' that bit her and turned her into a monster was an abusive husband. It's the same deal with the battered wife back in the 70s who waited until her husband was drunk and asleep, and then set the house on fire. The term "Burning Bead Defence" dates back to that incident. Again, she was bitten by the "wearwolf" of spousel abuse.

The Dracula character, on the other hand, reminds me more of the various serial killers. I realize that there are plenty of stories about 'reluctant' vampires, such as Barnabas Collins in the tv show "Dark Shadows," but Count Dracula's story was based on a guy who whole heartedly chose to do evil, much the same way Ted Bundy and Jeffery Dahmer did. Vlad Tepec, the real live monster known as Vlad the Impaler, is the very tyrant who Bram Stoker based the story of "Dracula" on.

Then you mention "Frankenstein," and playing God as was done by Dr. Frankenstein when he created his monster. Mary Shelly warned us all, as did the movie industry some years later, that it's not only wrong and evil to play God, it is also dangerous. Scientists played God in laboratories for years, and now you have all kinds of warnings about geneticaly modified organisms (GMO s for short). All the harm done by high frutcose corn syrup is more likely because GMO corn was used to make that syrup. Corn syrup has been a mainstay on every breakfast table for years before any GMO hybred was ever grown. Wheat and other foods or 'frankenfoods' are in every grocery store in the world for all intent purposes, and now I'm hearing on the radio every moening about diabetes being at epidemic levels, heard desease, liver problems, digestive troubles, neurological disorders, sleep disorders, and a whole host of others that many a doctor attributes to the consumption of 'frankenfoods.'

Michael