Master of Horror

I thought I would do a double negative and watch a horror film to help balance my nerves. What is horror? I think the modern Japanese filmmakers really know how touch on that raw nerve that causes people to jump and be skittish.

I just saw Dream Cruise, a segment from Master's of Horror a show that was on Showtime. It has a young man who is afraid of swimming after seeing his brother drown as kids. He keeps on being haunted of the past. A client of his wants to take him sailing on his yacht for business, but really wants to confront him about his affair with his wife. But there is a ghost lurking. And that ghost causes the client to die and his wife to see what really happened to his first wife. She was killed exactly where the yacht is now. The first wife want vengeance and she will take the second wife and the young man with her. Very scary. The ending is even better as they are dangling in the sea, only having a flotation device to stay aloft, and the ghost is dragging the second wife down. The young man is holding onto her just like he was with his brother. The ghost of the brother now appears to...drag the ghost of the first wife away. He forgives his older brother!

The dead come for what's rightfully theirs. Very much like the stock market. We all have bad memories of bad decisions earlier in life. But the heroes of these horror films are the ones trying to survive at all cost against anything that lurks in the night.