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Halloween in Japan - Eight Crazy Frights
inventorspot.com — Halloween has only recently been embraced by people in Japan but celebrate it they do, wholeheartedly. What's more, fun-loving Japanese have taken the pumpkin and are running with it. Here are eight eerie examples...
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- basye, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5That cowboy costume will get you beat up over here.
- skabyss, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1And here probably
- stonebear, on 10/08/2008, -0/+1Not over here: http://www.weho.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/detail/na ...
- crashbang, on 10/09/2008, -1/+2God what a fit. Japanese ghost stories are evil, gory, weird, and creepy.
Watch The Ring (Not the Naomi Watts one) and tell me thats not ooky-spooky! - wantguru, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1Stuffs are interesting. Japanese are really creative in so may ways.
- dezweber, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1All of the US's best horror flicks are either directed by Japanese or a rip-off of a Japanese film. We are not worthy!
- skabyss, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1Okay, work with me here people.
I have this theory that hasn't evolved past my stoned rantings, but I think there might be some substance to it. Over the years it has seemed to me that Halloween is moving away from being actually scary and turning into some cute happy fun time. There are more 'Halloween' lights and inflatable ***** now then there ever has been before, and I think there may be a couple different reasons for this, mainly being that people are turning into pussies. My other theory is that the same people who make Christmas decorations are looking to expand their prophets (LOL) to more of the year. They are trying to make Halloween into Christmas a little more each year, and sway from frightening to cute and welcoming, and I for one think this is *****. What would be more effective at neutering Halloween than blending it into Christmas, and nowadays people are even RESCHEDULING trick-or-treating to better fit their schedule. Halloween is the fastest dying holiday there is, and it must be taken back, using horror and force if necessary!- stonebear, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1You are nostalgic for a culture that was safe and comfortable. Horror for fun is a casualty of the actual horrors of a dying civilization which Americans are no longer insulated from. I used to be into the whole horror thing at Halloween, and then along came the internet and its many lurid pictures of actual burned, crushed and dismembered people, many of them innocent victims of my own government. The fake blood and gore doesn't do anything for me now. And, of course, 911 knocked the mojo out of a lot of things. Perhaps it's just coincidence, but 2001 is the Halloween the dwindling trickle of trick-or-treaters in my neighborhood stopped entirely, never to start up again.
Christmas, as we have known it, is another passing relic from that safe and comfortable time. What relentless marketing has made of it seems more and more naive in the face of dire economic reality. People who once loved Christmas have come to dread it because they can no longer sustain the level of materialism that has come to be associated with it. The easy debt which financed it is gone with the wind. It has to be socks and underwear now; carefully budgeted, and when they are needed, not once a year in an absurd frenzy.
- stonebear, on 10/09/2008, -0/+1You are nostalgic for a culture that was safe and comfortable. Horror for fun is a casualty of the actual horrors of a dying civilization which Americans are no longer insulated from. I used to be into the whole horror thing at Halloween, and then along came the internet and its many lurid pictures of actual burned, crushed and dismembered people, many of them innocent victims of my own government. The fake blood and gore doesn't do anything for me now. And, of course, 911 knocked the mojo out of a lot of things. Perhaps it's just coincidence, but 2001 is the Halloween the dwindling trickle of trick-or-treaters in my neighborhood stopped entirely, never to start up again.
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