Brain Dead and Loving it!

Kong's misguided attempt at wooing women. (KING KONG. Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. 1933) Why can't monsters ever get the girl? We’ve all been there before; We meet someone. It’s love at first sight. But it’s a one-way attraction. The target of your affection has no clue you are alive, is indifferent, or worse, is repelled by you. This unrequited love is a veritable plague that curses a plethora of monsters from classic horror films, but then again, maybe we can learn a little something from those doomed relationships. The first problem is in the approach. There seems to be this tendency to start the ‘’relationship’’ with an unhealthy amount of stalking. To observe the object of the affection from afar, letting the desire build within one’s breast. In itself, this isn’t unlike the very beginning of a healthy kinship. But it tends to prolong perilously and get downright creepy in its excesses. Erik, in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA , while d...