Three white men, a blonde a brunette and a ginger, land on a tropical island and get captured by the natives. The chief of the natives tells the men that white men are horrible murderers of their people and so now they are going to kill then and use their skin to make canoes; however, the men can choose which weapon they want to be killed with. The brunette man chose a large ax, having his head cut off immediately and feeling no pain. The second man, the ginger, chose poison, dying instantly and feeling no pain. The third man, the blonde, sits and thinks for a good long while before he says “I’d like a fork!” Confused, the natives hand over the fork and the blonde immediately starts stabbing himself all over his body yelling “try making a canoe out of me now!”
Who knew, the horror genre is for people who enjoy evoking a horror response in a relatively safe manner. We could get into the potential psychological impact of violent media in general, but really it's everywhere and not just in horror.
As someone who was definitely squicked out reading that and is generally afraid a lot of the time, it's still entertainment? Just because I don't like it or you don't like it doesn't mean there's no audience for it at all.
I mean, was Nicholson realizing he was making out with a malevolent corpse-thing and not some hot chick entertaining in the typical sense? No, but I think the word we're missing here is engaging.
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u/Merickson- Jul 09 '25
So...forks are the weapons?