Weird

The entire genre of "weird" is definitely something that catches my eye. Since talking about what falls under the category, I've noticed that a lot of the things I watch or read revolve around the weird. The V/H/S trilogy is actually one of my favorite film trilogies. The whole concept of these movies first drew me in because it was found footage and found footage movies are pretty much always good. Even when they're bad, they're still good because at that point it turns humorous at how terrible it is. I'm also a sucker for anything that claims it can scare me. Horror movies nowadays are somewhat predictable but with the V/H/S movies, it wasn't always like that. Sure, it was always known that someone was going to die but I could never quite figure out how or why any of this was even happening. For example, in the first tape of V/H/S it's all about these three guys who bring back these two girls to a hotel room. One girl passes out drunk while the other girl turns into this succubus winged creature and starts eating the guys and then flies away with one. When I first saw that, I was NOT at all expecting her to 1) start eating them and 2) to actually fly away with one of them. The whole thing was just very... for lack of a better word, weird. The whole movie kept me at the edge of my seat because each tape had so many elements of the average horror movie all blended in together, but also had so many twists and turns. Another example would be in the last tape where this group of guys go to a Halloween party but it's not a party at all. They find a girl being attacked by these people and it just looks like a regular exorcism scene. But then arms start coming out of the walls and you're like "what, why is that happening???" That was totally unexpected for me.

Speaking of unexpected things, I read Jack by China Miéville and honestly, the entire ending caught me by surprise. Throughout the story, the way the narrator was talking about Jack, it seemed as though they were friends or they knew each other on a personal level. It wasn't until the line "That's what I did at work today," that I actually understood what the narrator had meant when he said he knew Jack and worked with him. I think the ending was a really good twist to the plot of a very weird story. I thought the whole idea of Remaking was kind of confusing because all I could think was "how will that work?" However after reading the description of what Remaking actually was, I just went along with it. I also think that's what kept me reading the story, was the fascination of the fact that this society of people figured out how to just replace people's body parts with other objects and it just... works. Like these people stay alive with motorknives for arms... that's so awesome! Another reason this story sucked me in was because I really wanted to know what kind of job the narrator had with Jack. I wanted so badly to know how they knew each other. When I found out at the end, I was deeply surprised but also had a sense of relief that I finally knew the relationship between the two.