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Dear Female Horror Fans!
I am a third year university student at Bournemouth University, England currently in the middle of my dissertation. The focus of my dissertation is how age and gender impacts on an audience’s response to horror/violent films.
I am interested in building a discussion about how female horror fans view horror (DVD, TV, Cinema, Festivals etc) and if there is any reason why you choose to view horror/violent films in this way.
Please give your opinions on this subject and then please give your sex, age, location (County or State) and occupation at the end of your comment.
For example mine would be: Female, 20, Dorset UK, Student.
I am primarily looking for the opinions of female horror fans but if any male horror fans wish to leave a comment then please do!
Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to reading your views!
Emma Harris
Hia Emma! Can you be more specific about what you want to know?
Maybe youll get more people to answer you..When i was young i remember i noticed people speaking respectfully and humble about the exorcist. It would be broadcasted on tv for the first time and i wish to remember the broadcast was announced like a year before. My parents had said i couldnt watch it because it was not for little childeren. Altough it was about a little girl(still an older girl than me at that time, but still a child like myself).Offcourse, forbidden things are the best.
They had recorded the movie on VHS and at some day when they werent at home, I put it in the videorecorder and watched it(i still remember exactly what our livingroom looked like then hahahaha) . I do not wish to go to deep in this matter, but for me seeing this little bit older girl than me going trough the things regan goes trough in the movie, made me feel like she was a superhero or something. She was bloody and wounded, had received many times more punishment than me. But in her eyes i never saw fear or a sign that she was breaking down(You must know that after regans eyes turned white and her throat swelling i got so fouly(good english word??) scared that i took up my father’s binoculair and watched most of the rest of the movie trough the large end of the binoculair to shrink our tv screen so i could see the movie, but very very far away.)
It comes down to that regan got more of a fighting spirit as her punishment got more severe. It filled me with respect for her. She never cried, she never asked for her mom and stuff like that. Offcourse this was all demon, but to me she was just a little girl like me doing better than me in a worse situation i.e: the worst possible situation she was doing the best a human beeing could do. Its just ever since i saw that movie i felt i found a soulmate, and i always wanted to look like regan like in my current avatar so people would respect me like i respected regan or something. It may sound wicked, but i feel about myself the same way regan looks troughout her demon posesssion.
For some reason i start crying now, lol.
This is btw very hard to explain in a foreign langauge, but i hope you get the idea.
its just ever since im seeking a similair effect when i choose a horror movie to watch. And i like all movies. im not a die-hard horror fan or something like that.oh you posted like ayear ago. how good of me to already notice that.
if its still relevant : Female, 30(!PFffff!!!!)), Den Helder-Holland, and i dont know the english word for it but i work with elderly people who still live at home but need a little help.“But in her eyes i never saw fear or a sign that she was breaking down… She never cried, she never asked for her mom and stuff like that.”
I’m not understanding… You never saw fear in her eyes?? She was absolutely confused and frightened by what was happening to her- But this is why I love Regan of the novel a lot more than Linda’s portrayal of Regan. In the book, she’s a very delicate, sensitive girl (like me 😉 )and does cry for her mom a lot. I love this excerpt of the book beyond words:
“Regan stared at the doctors in sudden bewilderment. “Where’s Mom? I want my Mom!” she wept.
At a nod from the neuropsychiatrist, Klein left the room to go and get Chris.
“Your mother will be here in just a second, dear,” the psychiatrist told Regan. He sat on the bed and stroked her head. “There, there, it’s all right, dear, I’m a doctor.”
“I want my Mom!” wept Regan.
“She’s coming. Do you hurt, dear?”
She nodded, the tears streaming down.
“Where?”
“Just every place” sobbed Regan. “I feel all achy!”
“Oh, my baby!”
“Mommy!”
Chris ran to the bed and hugged her. Kissed her. Comforted and soothed. Then Chris herself began to weep. “OH, Rags,you’re back, it’s really you…”
“Oh, Mom, he hurt me! Regan sniffled. “Make him stop hurting me, please! Okay?”
…. “I was referring to the demon in time when it had full control of regan. To me it was ALL regan, i was like 8 back then, i never seperated the two from eachother for some (probably convieniant)reason. The Exorcist to me is a childhood memory, like herbie the love bug and (because of that movie i drive this 1972 pink bug with large rusted away holes in it for 8 years now) E.T.. To me the demon was just another side of regan.
I knew this question was coming hahahaha, when i wrote it down i asked myself the same thing…Have to say i never believed in demons or a god or things like that. To me these things come from human imagination. A demon therefore, and all of its thoughts actings and behaviours, is something that is born inside the human mind. Regan is offcourse a human. Did i think that when i was 8? yes.its how i was born, its a key to who i am. Didnt had the exact words to explain myself in thatway at that time but it sure was already there. I just do not confirm to the concept of higher beeings or lower beeings or that one living thing is a more worthier living thing than another.
To me it was all regan. I have never even considered it to be possible that a demon or a devil sat inside her. I thought it was not possible(still think that’).
To illustarte± when my granddad died and i was 6 or so. I spoke out loudly to my grandmother that he really wasnt going to heaven)This wasnt taken lightly by her i was later told) because i had taken all time prior to the funeral, looking for the rocket or the airplane to take him there. And i didnt find 1. i still remeber having trouble imagining how he would go to heaven without a thing to take him there.Carla, one of the things I love about The Exorcist novel is the mystery of whether or not Regan is possessed. You can interpret it in any way you like; was it autosuggestion brought on by Regan's reading a book on witchcraft? Is it a case of psychosis caused by the divorce? etc, etc..Â
   In the movie, though, is just so hard to believe she's not possessed, I wonder how you can. 😉 If you haven't read the novel, you should. 🙂
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