I've Seen True Horror

by Rosie

I am eighteen years old and have been watching horror and just 'creepy' movies since I was a child. I remember as a four year-old, my favorite movie was The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) which you have to admit would scare the living daylights out of any child that age. Like many, I had a fear of marionettes and puppets. It wasn't until I got a bit older that I really started to appreciate horror.

It was pretty funny because I read the list of the novice' horror movies, and that was exactly what I started myself on around the age of ten or eleven - movies like Darkness Falls and Jeepers Creepers - just to get a taste of fear. After a while, it wasn't enough.

Then in February 2005, I found Saw. Mind you I was still fairly young and had never seen anything like this before. It wasn't a movie about something jumping out of a closet and killing. This messed with my mind. I was simply entranced by the whole set up of the movie with the slow building relationship between Dr. Gordon and Adam and how it was ripped apart as fast as it was grew. This was true fear to me. And yet, in some sick and twisted way, I loved it.

I then began looking for movies that were like that. I cannot even begin to count the horror movies I have watched - everything from Silence of The Lambs to Se7en and everything in between. I have seen (and I have to admit this is probably my favorite) underground Asian Horror, Gummo (1997), 120 Days of Sodom (1975) and I will admit, while they are pretty disgusting and creepy, they still weren't enough.

So while searching around for horror movie details and trailers on the internet, I came across something that I probably should of never seen. If any of you are familiar with a 'Snuff' film, you will understand the terror that struck me as I watched this. It still gives me chills to believe that I witnessed such terror.

You can go your entire life watching scary and horror movies and you may see them all, but you will nver see something as terrifying of it happening in real life and being recorded. It was if the entire movie Hostel, the motel scene from The Devil's Rejects, and the pin scene from Audition were all jam packed into one 10 minute 'film'.

It was just...too real. And from the years of experience with horror movies I have, I most certainly can decipher the difference between a really good makeup artist, and the truth.

In all that happened in those ten minutes, I can honestly say...I will never watch another horror movie the same way again, and I will never be the same.