Many classic horror icons, such as Geger’s xenomorphs, Silent Hill’s Pyramid Head, and other disturbing creatures, share common characteristics. Pale skin, dark, sunken eyes, elongated faces, sharp teeth, and the like. These images inspire horror and revulsion in many, and with good reason. The characteristics shared by these faces are imprinted in the human mind.
Many things frighten humans instinctively. The fear is natural, and does not need to be reinforced in order to terrify. The fears are species-wide, stemming from dark times in the past when lightning could mean the burning of your tree home, thunder could be the approaching gallops of a stampede, predators could hide in darkness, and heights could make poor footing lethal.
The question you have to ask yourself is this:
What happened, deep in the hidden eras before history began, that could effect the entire human race so evenly as to give the entire species a deep, instinctual, and lasting fear of pale beings with dark, sunken eyes, razor sharp teeth, and elongated faces?
all those things are associated w dangerous predators dumbaline. no shit we're intellectually scared of sharp fangs and things that remind us of death/disease (emaciation, sunken eyes, pale skin, etc)
not to mention i think this is some heavy handed vampire reference and vampires weren't always spooky scary, the first vampires were described as being more like succubi
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someone sell this idea to stephen king
Many things frighten humans instinctively. The fear is natural, and does not need to be reinforced in order to terrify. The fears are species-wide, stemming from dark times in the past when lightning could mean the burning of your tree home, thunder could be the approaching gallops of a stampede, predators could hide in darkness, and heights could make poor footing lethal.
The question you have to ask yourself is this:
What happened, deep in the hidden eras before history began, that could effect the entire human race so evenly as to give the entire species a deep, instinctual, and lasting fear of pale beings with dark, sunken eyes, razor sharp teeth, and elongated faces?
… Just be careful out there.
Re: someone sell this idea to stephen king
(Anonymous) 2013-08-31 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)Re: someone sell this idea to stephen king
(Anonymous) 2013-08-31 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)all those things are associated w dangerous predators dumbaline. no shit we're intellectually scared of sharp fangs and things that remind us of death/disease (emaciation, sunken eyes, pale skin, etc)
not to mention i think this is some heavy handed vampire reference and vampires weren't always spooky scary, the first vampires were described as being more like succubi
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