The True face of Horror
Posted on January 2nd, 2016
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge
What is Horror?
The word that often echoed by Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
The word that has thousand meanings
The word that stops beating your heart
Remember Cruella de Vil who wanted to kill innocent Dalmatians
Norman Bates who is expecting guests at the Bates Motel
Freddy Krueger the disfigured, dream stalker who returned in our dreams
Halloween killer Michael Myers who showed no mercy
Could you imagine the sharpness of Jason Voorhees Sword?
If not think of the sharp smile of Dr Hannibal Lector
What is real horror?
Have you questioned your self for a moment?
Is it the fearful eyes of Transylvanian Nosferatu ?
Or the Villainous smile of Bela Lugosi
May be you were terrified by seeing Phantom of the Opera
Played by Lon Chaney the Man of a Thousand Faces,”
If not Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Immortalized by Boris Karloff
Why fear for fictional and factitious horror?
When you are sounded by real horror
The horrors of day-to-day life
Horrors that dictates our lives
Did you hear the political persecutions?
The ugly cousin of political extremism
Going hand in hand with the religious fundamentalism
That kills the human growth and obstructs human freedom
For one moment, did you think about racism?
Which clouds human dignity and respect
Mad wars for racial supremacy
When all of us share the same DNA
When you are surrounded by the real horrors
You are empowered and left without answerers
You become a living Zombie
A man without moral consciousness
You can fight the horrors
By believe in your self
By believe in humanity and justice
You can defeat the horror
Until it is no more
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge