In the horror community
you see groups of people trying to claim the title elite horror person.
Some of them feel that they deserve the title because they are hip and go to
all the popular horror films. They go to at least four to six horror
conventions a year. They believe all the hype the others of their “select”
group, like all remakes are bad, there was no good horror films before 1976 (so
why waste their time watching any of them), and only gory or pervertedly sick
films are good. They believe their status as an elite goes up by the amount of
pictures they have with them and horror celebrities, and of course multiple pictures
of them with celebrities makes them even more elite because that proves they have a relationship with these cool
people. Also they have to be members of the cool organizations because you can’t
be somebody without being a member of these, such as Horror Drunks, The Horror
Society, Comic Book Divas, Suicide Girls, or Even Women in Horror, just to name
a few. Oh and to be one of them they have to go to all the events and get pictures,
lots of pictures for their Facebook to show how truly great they are in the
horror community.
Unfortunately, in my view of things this doesn’t make them
elite, it makes them brown nosing
egotistical, social climbers who care more for the social scene and being round
other snobs than they actually care about horror or the love of horror films.
The true elite horror fan does not even call themselves
elite, they could give a shit about titles or status in the horror community.
These people might go to a horror convention once in a while if it has a
reunion of actors they are interested in or because they want to see if they
can find that rare horror item they’ve been looking for that they can’t seem to
find on Ebay or Amazon. Or they will go to chat horror with their peers. They
may have a few pictures of them with horror icons and they may post a couple of
their favorites on their Facebook and write a short description of how much it
meant to them to finally meet this actor that meant so much to them. These
horror fans have watched films from every era of horror and appreciated them
for their differences and the styles and culture they represent. They love to
find book adaptations of their favorite horror films and read books on horror,
such as John Stanley’s Creature Features Guide. These are the people who post
on message boards about not only the newest set of horror films, but their
favorites of the past. To put it simply these are the people who truly appreciate
horror and horror films. They could give a shit about the social scene and all
the exclusionary bullshit associated with it.
The thing that royally gets up my nose about this horrid
separation of the true horror elite and the false stuck up Socials who think
they are “The Horror Community” and think they run everything associated with
horror is that 98% of all horror fans were the people harassed and looked down
upon by the “Social Elite” in high school. Now saying this, how the fuck can
these same people put on airs and shit and exclude their once abused fellows.
That is the one thing I truly resent and don’t forgive. It is arrogant and
unacceptable. But that’s my opinion and as the people who think they are elite
horror fans think, my opinion doesn’t count…
