By MARK JUDGE
What is the premise of almost every horror movie?
Don’t mess with the Natural Law.
Yes, a lot of these films are gruesomely, needlessly violent, so I’m not recommending them for The Stream. But we can learn from talking about such movies and their appeal.
Starting with Frankenstein and going all the way through The Exorcist, Carrie, Re-Animator, Alien, Hell House and Heredity, for all their flaws, horror films often reinforce positive social norms and warn against violating them. Greed, arrogance, defying God’s natural order and dabbling with the occult … all get punished. Frankenstein warns us not to play God and try and reverse the inevitability of death. The Exorcist teaches us to not dabble with demons, as Regan did via a Ouija board. In slasher flicks like Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street, the kids who get knocked off in them are the usually ones who are drunk, promiscuous, or mean. Re-Animator and countless similar flicks punish those who grasp at immortality.
Joe Biden Clinging to Fetishes of Power, Like Gollum
All of which, sadly, brings us to Joe Biden. In horror terms, the president has violated one of the most basic truths of our lives — that at some point we get too old to function the way we used to. When this happens, we have two choices. We can accept the world the way God made it, retire gracefully, and prepare to meet the Lord. Joe could certainly afford to, having amassed a family fortune life living off the public.
Or we can cling to power, deny God and our mortality, and eventually get dragged into hell.
Others have pointed it out, but it really was shocking how President Biden’s recent speech in Philadelphia resembled a cinematic cameo by one of the lesser demons of hell. Biden ranted and raved, his dementia illuminati by hellish red lights in the background. It was like the horrifying ending of Heredity.
“As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault,” he yelled. “We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise. There’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country.” Biden also tweeted that Trump and “MAGA Republicans” are “a threat to the very soul of this country.”
Does Joe Biden Even Realize He’s Lying? Or Speaking?
The priests in The Exorcist remind each other that “the demon is a liar,” but I don’t even think Biden knows what he is saying anymore. This is why I think his tragedy gets to something more primal than mere politics.
Lunch Bucket Joe, a hair-sniffing demagogue and liar for more than five decades, turned his back on God when it was obvious to everyone on the planet that Joe was too old to be president. He was like Dr. Frankenstein pumping more and more juice into his monster to make it come alive. This goes beyond ignoring or disputing an advisor on inflation or the problems in the Middle East. This is denying the reality of the material world.
It is, to reiterate, the premise of almost every horrid movie. God told Joe it was time to retire. Joe made a deal with the devil — or Jill — instead.
Joe Biden: Decades of Petty, Venal Evil
Critics have been appalled at Biden’s broad nastiness, but I’ve always found his evil to be particularly petty. In the book The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty’s 1971 horror classic about demonic possession, there is a section that was so important to the story that it caused a rift between Blatty and director William Friedkin when it was left out of the film.
Near the end of the book, Father Lankester Merrin, an older priest, is explaining evil to Father Damien Karras, a young Georgetown Jesuit. The demon’s target, Fr. Merrin says, is not the innocent girl he takes over. The target “is us.” He continues:I think the point is to make us despair, to reject our own humanity, Damien, to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without dignity; unworthy.
Fr. Merrin then explains that the devil is not so much in wars or on great geopolitical dramas, but in the small, quotidian cruelties, “in the senseless, petty snipes; the misunderstandings; the cruel and cutting word that leaps unbidden to the tongue between friends, between lovers.” Enough of these, he says, and “we don’t need Satan to manage our wars.”
The demon, as Fr. Merrin notes, “knows where to strike.” Biden is not a large enough personality to be a towering evil. He’s too petty for that.
A Mediocrity Squandered, Like Ted Kennedy
Biden’s behavior reminds me of another politician who seemed to have signed a deal with Satan — Ted Kennedy. In the 2017 Chappaquiddick, Kennedy is shown transforming from someone who might possess a conscience into a truly evil man. After being responsible for the death of a young woman he drove off the road in a dark driving accident, Kennedy overcomes an attack of scruples. The senator taunts his cousin Joe Gargan, sarcastically calling him “Ol’ Joe” and repeating that even if it’s a dead girl in a car, “Ol’ Joe will fix it.”
Every detail was coordinated, the color, lighting and military props, just like their awful covid democrat convention. Problem…they suck at this even with or because of hollywood assistance. The only thing this one was missing was CGI shadow creatures crawling around.
@kitt
They don’t “suck” at it, they simply have an anti-American and anti-Constitution mentality that makes them use totalitarian imagery and symbolism to reinforce their ideology.
Idiot Biden doesn’t know where he is or what he’s doing. He is instructed to say and do the things he does by “advisors” and is told the political calculus for doing it. He is told to make that vile speech last Thursday and told it will turn everyone against Trump and make Trump supporters feel guilty and repent.
Idiot Biden is too incompetent and senile to think for himself and realize that accusing law-abiding patriots of being violent criminals might offend wide swaths of US citizens. Idiot Biden is controlled by bitter leftists that hate America and want to see their opponents punished. Idiot Biden is just a turd on the bottom of their shoe along for the ride.
All those who supported Biden should go pound their heads against the wall for being fool enough to beleive Biden and his Build Back Better its as empty and meaningless as Hope & Change and besides The Bitter Biter Bittern(Betties Bitter Batter)is s better tounge twister
@Spurwing Plover
How do you think a person gets to the point of supporting an idiot like idiot Biden?