For this week’s poll, I’d like to know which picture you feel creates the best sense of atmosphere. Does one of the pictures invoke a stronger feeling or response than the others?
The results of last week’s poll are as follows:
What Do You Find Scarier?
Having the feeling that someone is watching you, when you believe you are alone. 33.33%
Waking up in the middle of the night with the feeling that someone – or something – else is in the room with you when you should be alone. 33.33%
Having an instinctual fear reaction, like the hair raise on the back of your neck, without knowing why. 16.67%
Realizing that the sounds of nature around you have stopped when you’re walking in the woods by yourself. 16.67%
It’s my favorite time of year and I wanted to do something Halloweeny (it’s an actual word, an adjective-who knew!) for this week’s poll. Naturally, I started think of the best villains. Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Leatherface . . . notice a theme here?
The most common villains are from horror movies. If you do a Google search, you’ll also get plenty of other villains, from gangsters to terrorists, but they’re almost all male. If you search specifically for female villains, they’re mostly from fairy tale, Disney, super hero and comics movies.
What’s going on here? I don’t think we as a culture shy away from portraying women as villains, but it does seem that they aren’t taken as seriously as their male counterparts. So this week I’m asking who you think is the best (realistic) female villain. Feel free to add your own if your pick isn’t represented!
The results of last week’s polls:
Which situation would you least like to find yourself in?
* On the side of an empty stretch of highway miles from anything with a broken down vehicle and no cell reception. 45.45% (5 votes)
* Any location where I was isolated and by myself with no way to communicate with others. 45.45% (5 votes)
* Spending a night in a derelict house believed to be haunted, all by yourself but with a working cell phone. 9.09% (1 votes)
* A ski lodge cut off from communicating with the outside world by a blizzard. 0% (0 votes)
* An Island resort cut off from communicating with the mainland due to unknown circumstances. 0% (0 votes)
I often have a hard time choosing between two options. I’m also insanely interested in how other people’s opinions on certain matters differ or agree with my own. I’d love to pick your brains and poll you guys. Just to feel out if there’s any interest (and participation), I’m going to start with something easy – comparing 3 popular movies that came out in the 1990s and had a widespread audience. I can’t wait to see your responses!
Shannon Hollinger 