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10 Horror Movie Icons Who Are incredibly Emo

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Horror movie characters? Emo? It's more likely than you think... Here's a list of the ten most emo horror icons, with in-depth character analysis of their super-emo traits.
 
10. The Predator
How is the Predator emo? Well, for one thing, the Predator in the original movie sure as hell spends a lot of time by himself, hiding in trees, watching people from a distance. This is pretty much the vicious vagina-mouthed alien from another planet's version of an emo teenager's bedroom. Being that he's an alien, he must be feeling pretty lonely on this planet, especially since everyone is really annoyed with him for simply doing his job. I mean, he's a predator. He doesn't mean to kill off everyone in his path, it's just all he knows. Kind of like how emo kids end up alienated simply for being themselves.
 
And then there's the bleeding. In every Predator movie, the Predator or Predators spend a lot of time just bleeding all over the place. Admittedly, they're bleeding from war wounds, but ever see an emo kid get beaten up? There's usually some blood. And let's not even talk about the howling and crying when a Predator has a wound to heal... come on, emo kids cry less when someone forces a bottle of peroxide on them. Welcome to emo-ville, Predator. Now go cry some more.
 
09. Jason Voorhees
Here's Jason's story: as a weird-looking outcast kid, he was picked on and beaten up at camp. He drowned as a result of the bullying he faced while inconsiderate camp counselors ignored the situation to get their horny teenage rocks off. Most modern-day emo kids can recall their school/camp days as being full of similar torture, only without the whole drowning thing. And while some of the early Friday The Thirteenth movies muck around a bit with Jason's story, let's just skip to the iconic Jason in a hockey mask with a machete. He's a lot bigger and burlier than most emo kids, but he's still incredibly emo. How?
 
01. He didn't just come back from the dead; he came back from the dead to cut people.
 
02. Being challenged in the follicle department, Jason can't have emo hair. So how does he hide his face? With a hockey mask. To further earn some emo points, he manages to pull off the "hide one eye with asymmetrical bangs" thing by simply not having one eye. That alone makes him the most badass emo kid ever - even more so than Pete Wentz, king of the random fistfight.
 
08. Chucky [and Tiffany]
A "Good Guys" doll that is home to the soul of a deranged serial killer is emo? Damned straight he is. Chucky is a notorious and violent killer, but because of a bit of a screw-up in a voodoo ritual, he ends up in the diminutive form of a striped shirt and overalls-wearing, red-headed doll that looks vaguely like Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump if you squint and have a good imagination. Not surprisingly, this is a bit frustrating for Chucky, who repeatedly gets all emo and angsty over his inability to get out of the doll's body. Much like every emo kid, as much as he wants this, he just can't make it happen... over the course of five movies, no less. He tries, he fails. He tries, he fails. Emo.
And then there's his taste in women, as evidenced by Tiffany, who takes his hand in doll-marriage in Bride of Chucky. She's really hot, and even in doll form, needs a black jacket over her wedding gown, and won't be caught without her black nail polish and lipstick. She even gets super poetic on him when they're reunited, saying, "My mother always said love was supposed set you free. But that's not true, Chucky. I've been a prisoner of my love for you for a very long time."
 
Chucky may well be a really nasty serial killer, but he's fighting a pretty tough battle, in that tiny doll body that he just wants out of. He represents every emo person, ever, fighting against their parents' house, high school, bad jobs, crappy apartments... only quite a bit more violently. Most emo kids would rather write a sad song about it than run around stabbing people.
 
07. Michael Myers
Michael Myers is the stereotypically shy emo kid. He's so shy, he never, ever speaks. He just stares, sort of blankly, from behind his super-white mask. See, for Michael Myers, achieving the Gerard Way white face look could not be done with simple makeup - he needed a full on white mask. Much like all our other horror icons, Michael is called names - mostly "pure evil," though that may come from his tendency to kill people. It's just a hunch.
 
Michael is no stranger to mental institutions, much like many emo kids who end up there because they actually do have problems [nowhere near as severe as Michael Myers, mind you] or simply because their parents don't understand. Later in the movie series, it is explained that everything Michael Myers does is because of an ancient curse called "The Curse of Thorn." Even his curse is pretty emo; it's not like he has been plagued by "The Curse of the Lilac Inn," nope, it's the curse of Thorn. Many emo kids believe they, too, have been cursed... cursed to live their wretched lives alone, miserable, with nobody to understand them.
 
And you know what makes him super-emo? The remake. Not only do we see the ever-essential "troubled childhood," but we also see Michael just looking for the love and acceptance of his sister, and he has super emo hair in the face going on, despite his mask.
 
06. Freddy Krueger
Freddy is not a very nice guy. There is no getting close to this completely scarred-up monster because, quite frankly, he'll kill you. That said, he's not your standard horror movie hack - he's actually creative about his craft, if you can consider murdering teenagers in their dreams a craft. Since Freddy seems to, I'll let it slide. Oh yeah, he's also sort of the lord of the nightmare realm - something many emo kids know all about, what with their lives being nothing short of nightmares most of the time.
 
We also can't forget Freddy's signature look. He has a tight-fitting striped sweater on at all times, and his slender figure is shown off by his tight pants. His fedora-style hat isn't terribly emo, but since he has no hair, what else can he do? He spends a lot of time with that hat covering his hideously scarred face, so at least he's trying, right? But here's the final piece of the Freddy puzzle: his signature glove. Gloves in and of themselves are pretty emo, if they're fingerless, but they're super emo if they have fingers made of razorblades. This is Freddy's signature look, and while it's certainly not safe [imagine if he sneezed and forgot which hand he had the glove on? What about going to the bathroom?] it's pretty damned emo.
 
05. Bruce [AKA JAWS]
Bruce has it hard. He's just a shark, doing sharky things. Unfortunately, from time to time, sharky things include eating people, and people don't like that very much. Imagine how persecuted the shark must feel? He eats one boy, and all of a sudden, a mother has a $3,000 bounty on his head and almost every fisherman in the country wants his head to collect the cash.
 
The shark doesn't say much, and doesn't really do anything other than be a shark for the whole movie. Maybe if people stopped hunting him and picking on him, he'd go away and throw a message in a bottle apologizing for eating the original lifeguard and little boy, but no... they can't just let him live in peace. It's much like the daily hassles emo kids face from the oh-so-cool jocks who just won't let them eat their lunches in the school cafeteria without getting their tiny piece of chocolate cake stolen. Well, not exactly like that, but close enough.
 
04. Big Daddy
Big Daddy is but one zombie out of many in Land of the Dead, but he's a troubled soul. A gas station attendant in life, and a zombie for an unknown period of time, Big Daddy is starting to evolve. He's not going to win the Nobel Prize for Science or anything, but he's smarter than your average zombie. In a world where humans distract zombies by shooting fireworks into the skies so they stare at the pretty colors, this is a pretty significant problem. Shunned by humans, but not understood by the other zombies who seem to be a bit behind his learning curve, Big Daddy truly is alone in the world. Not surprisingly, this confuses him quite a bit. To make matters worse, he has a bit of a speech thing going on. He doesn't seem to know how to roar properly, and kind of articulates it as "ROOOAR" every time he's angry. You know a zombie or two snickered at that, hurting his feelings.
 
All of these issues are major emo characteristics. Big Daddy feels alienated, like most emo kids do. It's like showing up to gym class on lacrosse day, not only having no idea how to play the game, but while wearing a Panic! At The Disco shirt, to boot. Add a speech impediment, and you have the makings of a true outcast.
 
But Big Daddy is an inspirational emo, unlike many of the other characters on this list. When life hands him lemons, he makes lemonade, and he makes some damned good lemonade. He decides to teach the other zombies and then lead a zombie revolution. While this doesn't happen to emo kids every day [and the average emo kid doesn't have the fuck-you-up powers of brain- and entrails-eating that Big Daddy does] there's no reason to give up hope because, maybe, just maybe, you'll find some people who see things the way you do.
 
03. The Amityville Horror House
Okay, this one is pretty simple. There's a huge gothic mansion on Long Island, NY [home to many an emo band] that ends up full of some angst-ridden ghosts who have decided to express their "do not want!" feelings towards the house's inhabitants by doing things to drive the man of the house insane and generally, frightening everyone who comes in, including babysitters and priests. Seeing as houses are usually just houses, and people can come and go as they will, the Amityville Horror House is quite different. It just wants to be left alone. How many times has the average emo kid ran off to their bedroom or house, screaming, "just leave me alone! I want to be left alone!"? Enough times that the people around them wish they had a dollar for every time they've heard it.
 
And while the emo kids of the world can't get a random group of bees to attack a priest at will, lock a babysitter in a closet and make the door handle burning hot, almost cut off a kid's fingers by magically controlling windows, or simply drive a random man insane, the house represents those hopes and dreams of truly getting people to just leave them alone for real.
 
Bonus: The house offs itself at the end of the movie. Emo as hell, especially for a house.
 
 
02. Pinhead
Pinhead is sort of a goth-emo, more than straight-up emo [look at his clothing! All that leather and those chains, not to mention enough pins to give a lip piercing to every kid at Warped Tour.... Pinhead was not originally named that [He was simply "Lead Cenobite"], and that makes him all the more emo, as many people in the scene take on assumed names, particularly online. He also has a few other nicknames, including "The Angel of Suffering" and "The Dark Prince of Pain" - both would sound great on a VampireFreaks.com profile, no?
 
Being that Pinhead was a human being in the late 1800s, he tends to be a bit flouncy and poetic, and would probably be a great lyricist in an emo band. Pinhead has been known to say things like, "Down the dark decades of your pain, this will seem like a memory of Heaven," "Oh, no tears please, for it's a waste of good suffering," or "Pain has a face; allow me to show it to you. I. Am. Pain." While this sort of poetic whining about pain isn't likely to win him any friends, he doesn't care. He is pain! Pain can't have friends.
 
...Besides, everyone knows emo kids don't have friends, either way.
 
01. Frankenstein's Monster
This poor guy really gets the shaft. His name isn't even Frankenstein, but that's what people call him, because nobody ever bothered to find out what his real name is. I like to think his name is Bill, for the record. I think he'd like that. Anyway... this poor guy has it bad. People who encounter him call him all sorts of names that any emo outcast has no doubt heard once or twice in their lives: creature, fiend, devil, being, and even wretch. Okay, emo kids probably hear a lot worse; you have to remember this poor monster was around in the 1800s and they didn't have as many insults to go around. Doesn't mean it stung him any less.
 
The nameless monster is abandoned by his creator and spends his days and nights roaming around, seeking someone who will understand him. Obviously, that's pretty much what every emo kid is looking for - friendship and common ground. And true love, which the monster also wants. Unfortunately, his mean old creator actually pulls the ultimate cock-block and promises to make him a monster-mate, only to back out at the last minute. After his creator dies, Frankenstein vows to commit suicide as the novel ends.
 
The only way he could be more emo would be if the Internet existed back then, and he could have written morose LiveJournal entires, and kept a MySpace that would have been turned into a memorial after his suicide, maintained by his friends Dracula and the Wolfman.

Tex Murphy

Šta je emo?
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Novi smakosvjetovni blog!

angel011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo

Kratakkratak (i pojednostavljen do besmisla, pa stoga i ne sasvim pouzdan) opis emo klinčadije bio bi "šmrccviljecsamosažaljjadanpreosetljivjakoganikonerazume".

We're all mad here.


Loengrin

Quote from: "angel011"
:cry: đe ga nađe  :lol:
There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

angel011

We're all mad here.

angel011

We're all mad here.