Posted on 11/23/2004 9:31:31 PM PST by John Robertson
What's your favorite horror movie...and why? What fried your hair, and still makes it jump if you get a little too tired and you remember a sequence or two from something that scared the stuff out of you.
I've always dismissed horror movies as a waste of time, but the older I get, the more I realize they must serve some function--some cathartic function--because they are an enduring genre, and each generation likes to find its own favorite scary movies. Heard a commentator saying the other day, the reason the country is so preoccuppied with horror films right now is, it's a horror we can "handle," versus the real, terrorist kind of horror.
I can not view nor read anything without at least a wee bit o' modicum of fact. One of the things I was trained to do as the observer, look for the fact, look for the clue respecting to hysteria. Disrespecting that:
Col 3:1-4 is expressly clear in the implications in that regard. "YOU HAVE DIED (apothnesko from apo = away from + thnesko = die) means literally to die off and so to cease to have vital functions, whether at an earthly or transcendent level. The aorist tense speaks of a past completed action -- believers "died" with the moment they believed in Christ they died as clearly implied in 2Co5:17). The indicative mood is a simple statement of fact: reality indicating that this spiritual death was a real event even if one cannot completely comprehend it. When you died in the past, you died to the power, rule, mastery, enslavement to the old task master sin, which has now been rendered inoperative (Ro6:6 "done away with") by the death, burial and resurrection of Christ Jesus and your faith in His finished work which effected your "participation" with Christ. To be sure the presence and power of SIN will continue to harangue us for the remainder of our physical earthly existence but it can no longer condemn us. The question then is: Are you living like a ''dead'' man? Since we died and were raised with Christ, anything foreign to Jesus should be foreign to us. Although it's a "done deal" so to speak, we still need to make daily choices in light of and consistent with that truth. These choices often involve "Death to self" a truth emphasized often by Jesus as a requirement of those who wished to follow Him as His disciples (Mt16:25; Mk8:35; Lu9:24;17:33; Jn12:25 See Torrey's Topic on "Self Denial"). In these verses in Colossians Paul is explaining what "death to self" should look like (Col3:5-4:6). Dying to self and living to God (Christ increasing, us decreasing Jn3:30) is the essence of the heavenly minded "much fruit" life (Jn15:8) our Father desires all His children. But praise God it is no longer we who are "living' but Christ living His life thru us (Gal2:20).
AND YOUR LIFE IS HIDDEN: kai e zoe humon kekruptai
A.T. Robertson says about this: "For ye died (apethanete gar). Definite event, aorist active indicative, died to sin (Ro 6:2). Is hid (kekruptai). Perfect passive indicative of kruptô, old verb, to hide, remains concealed, locked "together with" (sun) Christ, "in" (en) God. No hellish burglar can break that combination.
When Christ shall be manifested (hotan ho Christos phanerôthêi). Indefinite temporal clause with hotan and the first aorist passive subjunctive of phaneroô, "whenever Christ is manifested," a reference to the second coming of Christ as looked for and longed for, but wholly uncertain as to time. See this same verb used of the second coming in 1Jo 3:2. Ye also together with him (kai humeis sun autôi). That is the joy of this blessed hope. He repeats the verb about us phanerôthêsesthe (future passive indicative) and adds en doxêi (in glory). Not to respond to this high appeal is to be like Bunyan's man with the muck-rake." That's Bunyan of "Pilgrim's Progress" not Paul and Babe the Blue Ox (o.k.?).
When Christ was tempted by Satan in the wilderness, Christ answered Satan with Scripture. One's salvation should be the least of one's concerns (in fact it should not EVEN be a concern at all).
Who "beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." (Lk 10:18).
But all of Satan's blaspheming God combined will be a drop in the bucket compared to the shrieks of rage heard the day he's cast into the lake of fire. But he will be drowned out with a resounding and overwhelming wail of anguish and screaming of rage at him (a lamenting of such ferociousness that of its own accord would strike terror into the hearts of any that would hear it) by those who were deceived by him (Isa 14:16; Ez 28:19).
I usually don't entertain "horror" anything. I firmly believe (in accordance to Romans 8) that most of what Hollywood presents in this regard actually is "real". I don't need to actually experience a baseball-bat onto the brain to know that'd be not good, eh?
I hope that you have a good and decent Thanksgiving...
Thanks for the ping, nopardons :) It's hard for me to choose off the top of my head, I've seen so many, LOL! Here are 10 that come readily to mind, though:
"Nosferatu"
"Dracula"
"Frankenstein"
"The Black Cat"
"White Zombie"
"King Kong"
"The Wolf Man"
"Godzilla"
"The Cat People"
"Jaws"
Not necessarily in that order.
LOL......now I'm scared !
Stay Safe and Hope yer Thanksgiving is easy........:o)
LOL
Lon Cheney was good at that part. I always felt sorry for the character, which is how he played the part - to get the audience to sympathize with his tragic situation. I really enjoyed those werewolf movies.
I also remember and enjoyed all the "Abbott and Costello meet ..." movies (Wolfman, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Invisible Man). They were hilarious and (sort of) scary too.
Which version of "THE BLACK CAT"?
LOL - I must go see Saw for the unseen saw scene.
I wish. I wouldn't have made The Village if I was..
"Last point. These aliens transverse the universe in giant ships. And they haven't invented the raincoat?"
Wouldn't it have been funny if after a scene of one of them getting hurt by the water there were raincoats being stolen from all over the world, and in that last scene we finally see one of them, and he's wearing a kid's bright yellow or pink rain coat, with matching hat? Or he was holding an umbrella?
And the climactic battle with Mel wielding a garden hose, spraying down the invaders until he turns a corner and the hose gets caught in a branch and bends, stopping the waterflow....
Bump 4 later - I'm not really awake ... ;-)
Haha, I know what you mean. I had that visceral reaction to the entire cast of Bless the Beast and Children.
"Which version of "THE BLACK CAT"?"
Karloff-Lugosi :-)
Off to family stuff here--have a great holiday!!!
Ohhh..Poltergeist scene with the Evil Clown under the bed. Poltergeist isa really scary movie.
On the other hand, was it Run away from the Light! Run away from the Light!
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