To kill your friends and relatives pt. 1

To kill your friends and relatives pt. 1

One of the core ideas in horror is that the menace, the force treating your life, is unknown. Either a count from eastern Europe with a thirst for blood, a gypsy curse, a creature from beyond or dead itself an its tricky design; the one who will take your life is a stranger.

But then, what happens when the idea that someone familiar, inside your circle of friends or your own family is a murder machine ready to kill you for whatsoever the reason is throw in the mix? is that one of the primal fears, to be murdered by someone you trust?

We meet two scenarios in this peculiar event in horror:

1. Your friend/relative is under a spell/curse/infection, and is not conscious of the murderous desires.

2. Your friend/relative is a whack job, and either for revenge or pure pleasure, will enjoy to dispatch you to the land of the unknown.

Let's start with the first scenario:



You're a blond toddler, living with your family on a old roadside house, suddenly your fragile tempered father, a doctor, lost sight on your and you are crushed by a truck right in front of your family, while trying to grab your balloon. Cut to a few days later, when you wake up so out of yourself, worst than Megan Fox in Jennifer's Body, turned into a little murder machine just because your father buried your body in that ancient Indian cemetery (you may be possessed by an angry ancient spirit).

You'll kill Herman Munster and your mom, before your dad decides to "kill you"... bam! your dead again!!! Did that sounded harsh, wait until you have to escape from Freddy...

If we take Gage Creed as a zombie, the first example of a zombie killing a relative is the one and only Karen Cooper. Actually, a friend or relative turned into a flesh eating freak is one of the main horrors inferred in the zombie sub-genre. Working both ways: you get afraid that a person you care will turn into a zombie, but you also are afraid that when the time comes, you will need to take the decision to blows the brains out of your loved one... it's all about survival



If he was possessed, then we can think of the demon possessed Angela Franklin, (un)willing to kill her friends and then some. And the whole Asian horror cinema is plagued with long black haired grudges.

Stay tuned for the second scenario.