{"id":50701,"date":"2016-01-02T16:52:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T23:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50701"},"modified":"2016-01-02T16:52:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T23:52:28","slug":"the-true-face-of-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/02\/the-true-face-of-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"The True face of Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

What is Horror?<\/p>\n

The word that often echoed by\u00a0Colonel Walter E. Kurtz<\/p>\n

The word that has thousand meanings<\/p>\n

The word that stops beating your heart<\/p>\n

\"horror\"<\/p>\n

Remember\u00a0Cruella de Vil\u00a0who wanted to kill innocent Dalmatians<\/p>\n

Norman Bates who is expecting guests at the Bates Motel<\/p>\n

Freddy Krueger the\u00a0disfigured, dream stalker who returned in our dreams<\/p>\n

Halloween killer Michael Myers\u00a0who showed no mercy<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Could you imagine the sharpness of\u00a0Jason Voorhees Sword?<\/p>\n

If not think of the sharp smile of\u00a0Dr Hannibal Lector<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

What is real horror?<\/p>\n

Have you questioned your self for a moment?<\/p>\n

Is it the fearful eyes of Transylvanian Nosferatu ?<\/p>\n

Or the Villainous smile of\u00a0Bela Lugosi<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

May be you were terrified by seeing\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Phantom of the Opera<\/p>\n

Played by\u00a0Lon Chaney\u00a0the\u00a0Man of a Thousand Faces,”<\/p>\n

If not Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein<\/p>\n

Immortalized by Boris Karloff<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Why fear for fictional and factitious horror?<\/p>\n

When you are sounded by real horror<\/p>\n

The horrors of day-to-day life<\/p>\n

Horrors that dictates our lives<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Did you hear the political persecutions?<\/p>\n

The ugly cousin of political extremism<\/p>\n

Going hand in hand with the religious fundamentalism<\/p>\n

That kills the human growth and obstructs human freedom<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For one moment, did you think about racism?<\/p>\n

Which clouds human dignity and respect<\/p>\n

Mad wars for racial supremacy<\/p>\n

When all of us share the same DNA<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

When you are surrounded by the real horrors<\/p>\n

You are empowered and left without answerers<\/p>\n

You become a living Zombie<\/p>\n

A man without moral consciousness<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You can fight the horrors<\/p>\n

By believe in your self<\/p>\n

By believe in humanity and justice<\/p>\n

You can defeat the horror<\/p>\n

Until it is no more<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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