Horror Week: The Loathsome!

[cyberghostface.insanejournal.com]

This one's from Weird Science #20.

















If the girl looks familar to you, Alex Ross used her as the model for "Maggie" in Marvels.

Comments

[cleome45.insanejournal.com]

The sad thing is: I lived with the real-life counterpart of the caretakers in this story. Gah.

[lawrence_live.insanejournal.com]

My sympathies :(

[cleome45.insanejournal.com]

Thanks, but reading back, maybe I'd better clarify a little.

What I mean is: I once had a roommate and a couple of her buddies tell me that you don't need to feel any empathy for "ugly" people. Because, you know, nine times out of ten, "ugly" people are evil, bitter assholes anyway.

Uh, yeah. Sure. O_o

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

Sounds like they were ugly and justifying themselves. >_>

[cleome45.insanejournal.com]

Oh, trust me. None of us were in any danger of being mistaken for super-models. That's what made the whole exchange so deliciously "WTF"??

Yeah..You have my sympathies..People can be so cruel..

[steverodgers5.insanejournal.com]

The nurses from the foster home/orphanage certainly reminded me of a former step mother of mine, who treated my step sister like crap..

And I'm sure I've spoken to a Doctor just as insensitive as this at one point..

So yeah, it's ironic most people probably read this and think that it's lacking in subtlety, and a bit unrealistic. But having encountered people like this in real life, I have absolutely no problem with suspension of disbelief here..None at all.

Re: Yeah..You have my sympathies..People can be so cruel..

[cleome45.insanejournal.com]

Ugh. :(

Yeah, subtlety is not the story's strong point. But its distortions are based in reality, so they strike a nerve with the viewer. Like any good horror/suspense story should.