4 Terrifying Psychology Lessons Behind Famous Movie Monsters | After Hours

that's like saying elf is the scariest alien and scream screamer whatever his name is what are we doing which monsters the scariest and psychologically speaking why and hey sodium you're afraid of salt the scariest monster is no monster think about it what's the point in every monster movie where it starts to lose the scary right before the end right when they finally actually show you the monster full on the horror money shot and just like porn it all gets a lot less interesting as soon as the climax hits yes see this is exactly what I'm saying about Freddy Krueger he's a known quantity he doesn't even wear a mask you can see his face the entire time oh [ __ ] you all the best scares happen in foreplay when the monsters still a shape in the shadows alien predator the neverending story literally exactly kind of they all share the same thing your brain is free to fill in the blanks with whatever is the most uniquely terrifying details I can come up with and your brain knows exactly how to scare you so when you say Freddy you're basically saying yep that guy yes that that's the thing that's the scariest thing my brain can come up with which was good I guess I sound like you just have a very pleasant imagination mostly just kittens riding unicorns hey ray well it's scarier than nothing especially for hoarders key demographic adolescent teen males teen boys are afraid of rape more than other PT males have two basic fears one their own sexual inadequacies the fear that they're the only one of their friends who didn't get his copy of how to work a vagina in the mail and boom fear of that first fear but their friends will find out how scared they are ladyparts in column on the sexual and alien is all about terror sex think about it how does it start big tough space guys are out doing big tough space [ __ ] until they interact with some eggs the universal symbol of human reproduction and then what happens boom facehugger which incidentally looks like a human vagina sewed onto a spider it latches on the tough mixed space guys skull and immediately starts ramming its cylindrical meat tube down his throat if this transsexual arachnid Jonah is separated forcefully the victim is killed basically the textbook definition of a rapist and the victim leaves unwittingly nurturing the rapists child and in the ultimate emasculation he's forced to give violent chest birth to the things kid so to recap a space vagina rapes its baby into you which then rapes its way out of you double rape and all in front of your friends plus of course the baby looks like a dick because everything is dicks dick dick dicks dicks dicks until the end of time uh uh you gonna eat that so dick splosions aside Freddy Krueger's I've been scary since they became the default shotguns thought of her first-person shooters because it's not manifesting as fearing mort's hatred what do we do - zombies removing the head or move the head or the brain right yeah we exterminate them we obliterate them we hate zombies we hate them because they're us they're human beings but with all the stuff that makes us so great removed emotion intellect empathy bitching tans I mean we see a zombie and we think Jesus Christ is that all I am just a wandering festering bag of meat well I think we all know what Jesus Christ yeah we don't want to face the awful realization that we might just be these monstrous balls or hunger and lust that's what makes zombies such Hades villains for our enemies they're like us but they're not actually us in Night of the Living Dead Romero's ah was represented communism and Dawn of the Dead they represented the miles consumer whoever the antagonist of today is that's who we hate and that's who becomes the zombie huh a zombie been lodged it's about fear not hate yeah but where do you think hate comes from I mean we start out feeling afraid of something and then that fear makes us feel weak and that weakness makes us angry and then we start to hate mm-hmm reasonably what star or someone after zombies don't just represent who we hate they reproduce how we process fear as hatred and we don't feel bad about doing their heads in because they're not real people right they're Republicans what what like conservatives as perceived by liberals he's monolithic mob of endless consumerism or how like vampires are how liberals are perceived by conservatives sexually ambiguous outcasts who suck the lifeblood out of society yeah and don't forget about the wacky accents because there's nothing conservatives hate more than oh holy [ __ ] she's totally right yep when conservatives beer someone it's because they think they're either a secretly foreign or be preying on young women and liberals they love of using bush and his followers of being mindless mouth-breathing drool idiots Jonathan just got an awesome facepaint job what do you think I like turtles yeah zombies are communist that 28 days later zombies are the terrorists oh and Reavers no Night of the Living Dead was a hit when Nixon was in office the Red Scare was over and then the consumer is zombies came in the 80s Reagan and Clinton gets blow J and suddenly they're all Anne Rice's sexually promiscuous vampires then which starts waging pre-emptive Wars and then we get 28 days later and they are more aggressive zombies so Obama is like the cool Twilight vampire right he's so cool he makes everyone else want to be a vampire and that's the thing that's scary about monsters indoctrination all it takes is one bite a one facehugger egg a one pit stop into the swamp of sadness and suddenly you're out there on the fringe bombing abortion clinics or driving a Prius with a coexist sticker down to your local co-op human fear is nothing more than the manifestation of our aversion to the archetypal other and our nagging doubt we and they are one in the same you know Hegel Sark whatevs Katie do you know what you've done you actually made a horror boring yeah your horn seriously Katie nobody wants to talk about politics Oh Snorks yeah all right uh like what about Oh pro or con Jack please which major religion is represented by each snork

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Length: 7min 25sec (445 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 28 2011