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xbrand -> RE: elizabeth bathory (4/15/2010 11:26:24 AM)
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Hello, There is a rash of 'horror' movies out recently....The 'SAW' series, the '8 Movies to Die For' series, and others, why do you suppose this genre is so very popular; I suspect, It's the escapism being offered from being helpless, exploited by the powers that be, in actual life,...seeking revenge, even if it be only in fantasy, viewing what a person is incapable of doing in real life, (except for the few, Jeffrey Dalmers). There was a book on canabalism, ...The author started out wanting to write on an estoric, obscure topic, and discovered how commonplace the act is in modern day, hundreds upon hundreds of unsoved cases in police files of disappearances and murders, half eaten bodies......real horror...he was astonished and wrote the book anyway. The Countess Bathory, was a murderer, sadistic, in her tortures and killings, no more worse than any of the murderers of today. What one knows of her is scant historic footnotes, the more detailed dialogues are most likely the fabrications of 'stimulus' fantasy. The Dracula syndrome, as it were, the historic facts are scant, mostly just a paragraph or two, except for the in depth writings of historians. Mostly all is 'hollywood fantasy'.....and no basis in actual history. The same with the Marguis DeSade....mostly all modern day exploitation writings are based in fantasy with no actual knowledge of Sade's writings or history. The main populace loves the fantasy, the circus, and largely has no tolerance for truth, nor actual historic fact. So...on with the circus, bring on the clowns and let them enlighten us.
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