What is "Weird" and why as humans are we completely obsessed with it. I feel like its a way for us to live out our secret fears and thoughts we wouldn't necessarily want to share otherwise. Horror movies, a perfect way for people to let out their inner weird, think about it like this, what other time aside from Halloween do we have to really tap into are inner darkness.
For generations we have been using the horror genre to let go of what we know of reality and embrace that which is not normal, from movies like "The Exorcist" to "Cabin in the Woods", we get to watch people doing everyday things, living everyday life suddenly have their worlds turned upside down. Ghosts, zombies, vampires, demons appear in their lives and completely alter everything that is normal. It is a way for us to live our nightmares,fantasies,day dreams whatever.
Today with the technologies we have to really enhance our experiences, the future of "weird" is going to push the boundaries in the future, make the ghosts more ghost like, the possessed seem more legitimate, I think we are going to keep out typical plot lines and darker style, but i think we are going to continue to twist weird, find new ways to make everything more life like, as if it really is something that could happen to anyone of us tomorrow. We want to see weird as if it was our own, the more real it becomes the more we will be drawn to it.
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