Horror Fun
horror fun with different peoples, sometimes its dangerous and sometimes not, but in fact we should not do horror jokes because some peoples can get heart attack.
But some people ask if our society has become desensitized to the real evils of the world, or is the gore and scariness of Halloween just harmless fun? It depends on whom you talk to.
"Halloween is about gory and bloody. It's just the world around us that is getting very sensitive," Christine Arvanigian, president of the Halloween Outlet said. "For a while, after Sept. 11, things pulled back and kids were being like happy things. But they're back to being scary things. Halloween is about having fun. It's escapism. It's not real, people."
In addition to being members of the Deadites, a heavy rock band inspired by B-horror movies, Mique "Dynamo" L. Marz and Johnny Wolfenstein, co-hosts of "Trick Or Treat Radio" (which Entertainment Weekly ranked as one of its "5 essential podcasts for horror fans"), Kevin Barbare, morning host of 104.5 WXLO and creator and co-founder of Rock and Shock Convention (happening Oct. 16-18 at the DCU Center), and Erick Godin, owner of the Lucky Dog Music Hall, all have something in common.
They love Halloween and horror movies.
The four friends talked to a reporter at the Halloween Outlet on West Boylston Street, the perfect haunt for a Halloween fan and horror-film aficionado.
"I love horror movies. I love what it does to me. I do love getting dressed up for Halloween, getting a really freaky costume, getting into people's faces and nobody knows it's you," Godin said. "It's awesome."
Mr. Wolfenstein blames the Internet and its relentless barrage of graphic images and information as the culprit in desensitizing the human populace, not horror movies and/or over-the-top Halloween displays depicting decapitations, dismemberment, demonic possession and even acts of cannibalism.
"If something happens, you instantly know about it. If there's a shooting, it's trending on Twitter. Everybody knows about it. You can't avoid it now," Wolfenstein said. "Before, if you wanted to, you had to read a newspaper and seek it out."
Marz said society has become so overwhelmed by so much bad news that we cannot be scared anymore.
"If you look at the really gritty, grimy horror movies that came out after Vietnam and into the 80s when kids were dressed as serial killers, as Jason (from "Friday the 13th") and Michael Myers (from "Halloween"), I feel that was escapism, pure escapism," Marz said. "We use to think that there were bad things out there, maybe. But, now we know. People are cutting off people's head on the Internet. We grew up watching movies about 'Don't go there. Don't go there' but you can get shot just going to the movies now."
But some people ask if our society has become desensitized to the real evils of the world, or is the gore and scariness of Halloween just harmless fun? It depends on whom you talk to.
"Halloween is about gory and bloody. It's just the world around us that is getting very sensitive," Christine Arvanigian, president of the Halloween Outlet said. "For a while, after Sept. 11, things pulled back and kids were being like happy things. But they're back to being scary things. Halloween is about having fun. It's escapism. It's not real, people."
In addition to being members of the Deadites, a heavy rock band inspired by B-horror movies, Mique "Dynamo" L. Marz and Johnny Wolfenstein, co-hosts of "Trick Or Treat Radio" (which Entertainment Weekly ranked as one of its "5 essential podcasts for horror fans"), Kevin Barbare, morning host of 104.5 WXLO and creator and co-founder of Rock and Shock Convention (happening Oct. 16-18 at the DCU Center), and Erick Godin, owner of the Lucky Dog Music Hall, all have something in common.
They love Halloween and horror movies.
The four friends talked to a reporter at the Halloween Outlet on West Boylston Street, the perfect haunt for a Halloween fan and horror-film aficionado.
"I love horror movies. I love what it does to me. I do love getting dressed up for Halloween, getting a really freaky costume, getting into people's faces and nobody knows it's you," Godin said. "It's awesome."
Mr. Wolfenstein blames the Internet and its relentless barrage of graphic images and information as the culprit in desensitizing the human populace, not horror movies and/or over-the-top Halloween displays depicting decapitations, dismemberment, demonic possession and even acts of cannibalism.
"If something happens, you instantly know about it. If there's a shooting, it's trending on Twitter. Everybody knows about it. You can't avoid it now," Wolfenstein said. "Before, if you wanted to, you had to read a newspaper and seek it out."
Marz said society has become so overwhelmed by so much bad news that we cannot be scared anymore.
"If you look at the really gritty, grimy horror movies that came out after Vietnam and into the 80s when kids were dressed as serial killers, as Jason (from "Friday the 13th") and Michael Myers (from "Halloween"), I feel that was escapism, pure escapism," Marz said. "We use to think that there were bad things out there, maybe. But, now we know. People are cutting off people's head on the Internet. We grew up watching movies about 'Don't go there. Don't go there' but you can get shot just going to the movies now."