The bathroom is an enclosed space
made as safe as possible to do personal thing to us. The problem’s what if in
that safe place as we thought occur strange events such as a door that suddenly
opened itself or there was knocking from outside but once you open it turned
out there was no one there…
I don’t know about you, but I had
that experience few years ago when I was in a bathroom and the door opens along
with my son entered the room with his usual devilish-smile. Perhaps it might be
a common thing, despite my fast-beating heart that almost caught me heart
attack, because that kind of incident happened so often when you live under the
same roof, isn’t it?
But it became weird when I
remember that I already press the lock knob inside the door before I got in, so
it’s obviously impossible for the little guy to open it from outside. Even
though, a father must not panic because of such strangeness, otherwise it will
make the kid afraid and refuse to stay at home so I jump him with some charisma
of anger – to cover my fear – and scold him not to come into the room with such
way…
Or imagine if you're alone in the
bathroom of an old building that used for a retreat session from church, while
you’re scrubbing your body with soap and foam suddenly you heard the door
knocked and before you knew there were ten big black toes filled with a long
claw at each protruding between the door spaces underneath.
Not a beautiful sight of course
but I've been there...in fact my friend who had the vision which on that time I
was taking a shower in the cubicle next to him, heard him screaming in
terrifies, but with that Vin Diesel-shape-like I bet thousand dollars you would
laugh out loud to see his expression at that time… he’s truly depressed and his
face was pale indeed…
The present of being alone in the
bathroom for long time makes me little bit paranoid, which also experienced by
the king of horror Stephen King, in one of the articles he mention about his
bathroom phobia and how terrified he was when he had to be alone in there, the
fact is we should always alone in the bathroom, right?
Those uncomfortable feeling exposed
very well in fine horror movies, though many of them put this kind of scene to
boost the popularity as well, as you know bathroom scene explored sexual and
erotica which become sweetener, but the movie that put the scene in appropriate
way could make us think whenever we go to the bathroom after we saw it.
Who are the geniuses who realize
this moment as frightening scene? The answer could be review from the old films
that put it earlier like:
PSYCHO (1960)
Alfred Hitchcock got the nickname
as the Master of Suspense because he made unusual movies, the different
perspective he brought includes Psycho. No wonder Psycho had tons of critics
mostly said as a movie that never seen before. Different from general horror
movie that feature a ghosts or horrible figures, none of the creeps built from supernatural
creatures.
In addition to his genius that
made this film as a psychological horror movie, which classified as new comer
at that time, Hitchcock put scenes that will become legend and imitated by almost
many horror films later, when the pretty blonde Marion was having me-time under
the shower and suddenly the curtains revealed by the killer who stabs the knife
couple of times into her body.
NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES (1968)
We used to see man turned into a werewolf
but this film delivered human who transformed himself into a gorilla that
became a blood thirsty monster.
There
was a guy named Julio who often turns into a gorilla and never satisfied doing
nasty thing to woman. One scene shows when the Julio-gorilla yanked women out
of the bathroom and did crazy thing, including limbs tearing of the girl in
extreme way and certainly doesn’t fit for minors to watch.
CARRIE (1976)
Whether Stephen King had bathroom’s
phobia first and write it in Carrie then, or vice versa, but the fear he had
became part of the novel that not just compelling the movie but also display in
several earlier scenes. It opens with highlights of the awkward young girl
named Carrie who was dogged by turmoil in the bathroom school for unusual
changes in her body cause of puberty.
The pure beauty of youth distorted by the
act of three nosy girls who bullying Carrie and embarrassing her in the
bathroom, until then all three being rewarded for playing Carrie commensurate
with her telekinesis power that being uncontrolled when she’s get mad.
SQUIRM (1976)
Squirm had the courage to avoid
the use of the popular phrase "based on a true story," not just
scrolling text on the screen as if the pure facts. Without it to assert their
horror, this film explores horror as the killer worms started attacking humans
and digging faces of their victims.
One of the most memorable moments of this
movie was the scene where the beautiful red-haired Geraldine "Geri"
preparing to take a shower. And, after that you can probably guess, some
carnivorous worms decided to harass her because she was indeed beautiful.
I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (1978)
A New York City writer, Jennifer,
went to a secluded cabin in the woods to write his first novel. Unexpectedly
she was raped there by four village men and left to die. But Jennifer is able
to survive and after it had planned the murder as an act of revenge for the
fourth rapist.
Jennifer teased one of the men
who raped her to take him to his death. She started the fun in the bathroom,
seduce the man and when he was about to reach the climax Jennifer took a knife she
hide under the bath mat and cut off his genitals, locked the door, and let him
bleed to death in the bathroom before hunting his companions.
So, what do you fear when you
were in the bathroom after this?
Is that a killer with a knife,
the mutant worms, a monster of human-gorilla, bullying friend that making you shame, or a ghostly figure with giant foot that slipped through the
door?
Share your fear with me and we
prevent that from happened…
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