One-Two Freddy's coming for you.. (Berkeley #2)

I struggled with thinking of something related to pop culture with Berkley. The only thing that comes to mind is pretty much anything and everything we do on a day-to-day basis since his concept is that perception creates our reality. One quote that stuck with me is when Philonous said, “It is evident that the things I perceive are of my own ideas, and that no idea can exist unless it be in a mind…”(p.163)

Ok so this quote reminded me of the Boogieman and monsters that kids believe in. When kids stop believing in them and get that idea out of their minds, it doesn’t exist anymore. They have that idea of a monster in their minds so then it exists to them and become reality. I was watching Stephen King’s IT and only the kids in that town could see that horrible evil clown. “It” is a predator that has the ability to transform itself into its prey's worst fears allowing it to exploit the fears and phobias of its victims, while also disguising itself when hunting. The movie tells two parallel stories. The first part of the movie is what happened in 1958 when the children first faced “It” as a clown and also in its true form (that of a fifteen-foot-long spider) and nearly killed the monster. The second part is of their reunion in 1985 when they band together once again finally to vanquish It from the face of the earth. I guess “It” was always somewhere in their mind, because even as adults they still saw “It”. Wow I’m even having flashbacks right now, as a kid this movie terrified me. I was afraid to even shower sometimes because I had the idea of It just popping up out of nowhere. To make that idea go away I just kept telling myself it’s not real. I remember a part of the movie where there’s blood all over the sink and the girl could see it, but not the dad.

Another perfect horror movie example is ‘Freddy vs. Jason’. Freddy Krueger is a fictional character from ‘A nightmare on Elm Street’ series horror film. He is a disfigured dream stalker who uses a glove with sharp razors to kill his victims in their dreams taking their souls, which ultimately results in their death in the real world. Freddy could only operate when people believed he existed, and also when that person feared him. Jason is a fictional character from ‘Friday the 13^th’ series of horror films. Jason is a masked man that stalks and murders his targets. He is a psychological threat to his victims. In ‘Freddy Vs. Jason,” Freddy has grown weak as the citizens of Springwood have forgotten about Freddy. If Freddy is forgotten then he is not feared, and he loses his power to appear in people’s nightmares. In order to regain his power, Freddy resurrects Jason and manipulates him into traveling to Springwood to cause panic and fear. However, while Jason succeeds in causing enough fear for Freddy to haunt the town again, he continues to intrude on Freddy's territory and steal his potential victims. This sends the two monsters into a violent conflict with each other.