There's just something strangely poetic.....

There is something strangely poetic and magical about certain movies that I like, certain horrific movies I should say in fact to move even closer in I would say, something poetic about certain dark and extreamley disturbing characters.

Sweeney Todd is the perfect example of this, I love Sweeney Todd and while I love the music, the character and the ideas I think there is something strangely wonderful about his psychotic killings. I think about the way in which his mood shifts, from being so angry in the heat of the moment to so calm, I love that, I love the way he dances Mrs Lovett into the fire at the end so calmly and so compleatley, he kills people with an authority, with an intelligence, with a knowing that he is going to kill them while his victim remains completely unaware. It's 'villains' like Sweeney Todd that I love in films.
Hannibal is another good example of the cold and calculating, the way they show no emotion whatsoever as they kill there next victim. Maybe they do show emotion, but the fact that the emotions are so like reacting to an everyday occurance we label them in that bracket of no emotion.

These sorts of villains I find not only the most attractive but the most intriguing, a killer who cares to much maybe rather then not enough. With killers like these the attacks are thought out are for a purpose trying to lighten some burden, they seem to be of a higher, possibly better class then those who merely slash there way through a series of teenagers for fun. As Jason or Mr Myers slash and murder their way through a house full of teenagers they do not stop to savor the blood, their knives are not so much artists brushes like Hannibals scapel or Todd's razors but they are mere clubs.

I For one would always prefer a villain like Todd or Hannibal to a 'scream-esque villaiin' or Mr Myers. Yet then I think if all villains were like this would it not get boring? Would I then not crave to see primal instincts in frenzied attacks of pure and simple violence? No I don't think I would that's the stuff of Zombie films and I won't delve into my fear of that at this moment in time or the million reasons I hate those films.

Ugly Duckling Out
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