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1 " He's the Stu to my Billy Loomis "
― Goldy Moldavsky ,
2 " I invited her over to the apartment in an attempt to recreate the club's horror movie nights. I started off with a sure bet: Scream. A perennial fave. But to my horror Saundra showed up at my apartment with her tablet loaded with the MTV series based on the movies. When I told her, ver gently, that I would rather tear my skin off than watch that abomination, she laughed and hit play. "
3 " And when you're truly scared, there's nowhere to hide - no private school, no popularity, no trust fund. It's just you and your most base emotion. Fear is where the truth lies. "
4 " If you want this to be over, just make sure she screams. "
5 " I thought of the ways my own fear could take over sometimes and leave me paralyzed. How anxiety crawled out of my mind and became something physical, ruling my body and pulling all the strings. "
6 " If I was a monster, then so was everyone else in this club. And for once I didn't feel like such a freak. We could be monsters together. "
7 " The game isn't over until everyone's played. "
8 " But there was something wrong with me. It clawed at my insides, desperate to get out. "
9 " Fear is where the truth lies. "
10 " I looked over my shoulder. "
11 " found the horror soothing, almost cathartic. Maybe it was the knowledge that everything I was seeing was fake and would be wrapped up neatly in under two hours. If I could train myself to sit through scary movies, face all different kinds of horrors head-on, then maybe I could transform into a calmer, more serene version of myself. "
12 " Mary Shelley writes of two men. One, an intellectual capable of creating life from death. The other, a grotesque creature made of human body parts and covered in scars. But it isn’t the obvious monster that we have to be afraid of. It’s the one that looks like us and acts like us. "
13 " Mary Shelley’s message was clear: Real monsters aren’t the ones created by man. The real monster is man himself. "