[ SECRET POST #3537 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3537 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Art by: http://slashpalooza.tumblr.com/post/149564769513/thank-you-for-all-the-comments-havent-had-time]


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[Twin Peaks]


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[Stephen King, BTK murderer and The Good Marriage]


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06. [WARNING for pedophilia, incest]

(Rick and Morty)


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

don't people do this all the time though? nearly every crime show on tv depicts cases that are "ripped from the headlines" (law and order in particular relies on it a lot). sometimes those cases are barely a year old, if that.

[(Anonymous)]

Probably but I don't watch Law and Order so won't be familiar with their disrespect. Stephen King I did formerly enjoy.

[(Anonymous)]

I've read the story and didn't know it was about BTK. The fact is, it could have been about any serial killer in which a family member finds out. Not a single part of the story screams 'This is BTK!' when it comes to the killer. That said, it is a very respectful story and is from the POV of the wife ie; we are made to be sympathetic towards her.

I do find it interesting that the family of BTK is upset that Stephen King wrote the fic. I would have thought it makes more sense for the families of the victims to be upset.

I personally find the film 'Wolf Creek' very offensive. This was based on the real life crimes of Ivan Milat and was just a 'run of the mill' horror film. No respect towards the victims of the terrible crimes at all. As other OPs have written in this thread, serial killers, terrible true crimes etc are constantly written about, in society. At least Stephen King flipped it and didn't make it disgusting but rather about the wife discovering proof of the crimes.

I would say read the short fic, OP and you'll see it's not disrespectful.

[(Anonymous)]

I have watched "Wolf Creek" and was not aware of Ivan Milat before watching it. I was also unprepared for how harrowing that film was. While it's a film I wouldn't watch again, I felt that it did a good job of translating the absolute horror of what happened. The film spends a lot of time developing the three main characters, who (IIRC) don't encounter the killer until more than halfway through the film. IMO, it deviates from standard horror films in that you desperately DO NOT WANT anything to happen to the main characters, and it is absolutely traumatic what does happen.

I feel like the film-makers deliberately chose to highlight the horror of what happened, and it's a film where it's virtually impossible to be rooting for the bad guy, or to laugh or make light of when a character dies, which happens all too frequently in your run-of-the-mill horror movies. The visceral horror of "Wolf Creek" acts almost as a reality check against our sometimes jaded perceptions of murder and mayhem onscreen, because we see so much of it, from horror movies to Law & Order, that the violence loses its impact.

I don't think I'll ever watch "Wolf Creek" again, and I didn't know what I was getting into when I watched it. I don't think I would have watched it had I known. But I would disagree that the film treated the victims with disrespect - I think it unequivocally drives home the full horror of what happened.

As I said, though, I was not familiar with Ivan Milat before seeing the film, and I can see how that would colour perceptions.