6iXiS: Simon Says

First school film project. Came out a bit dark.

I hesitate to put this up. It's heavy. This was my first film project for a sophomore school class. I made this, i think, after a long time spent considering just what happens to a person in life and how much of it is related to growing up in certain environments and how much due to genes, heritage, and the like. I've heard that the sins of the father are passed on to the son as is quoted at the beginning of this piece and i've heard the opposite. I believe in some cases there are entire families that inherit certain spirits that are transferred from generation to generation and the family becomes something of a continuous host. Malachi Martin spoke extensively about this. The song Black Blood Boogie, that we used to play in the band Backhouse Secrets dealt with this. That video is further down beneath this posting. I've a bit of schizophrenia in my family and was also raised to believe in spiritual warfare as a part of reality and continue to believe that we are wrestling not against flesh and blood but what amount to a group of intergalactic gangsters referred to Biblically as thrones, dominions, powers, and principalities and on and on. I don't know how much of the schizophrenic experience is inherited physically and how much spiritually. After watching someone very close to me deal with this for years, I've come to see that it may be a bit of both. In studying possession cases, i've found that there is no rhyme or reason in the choosing of the host. All walks of life and all levels in the social spectrum seem susceptible. I've always felt drawn to these themes and have been interested since i can recall in the occult, alien abduction and topics concerned with demonology. it might be said that i'm looking for a well informed way to say the devil made me do it, but i don't think so, though in some cases, a demon of antediluvian origin might float the bill. whatever the case, i think i made this movie to try and exorcise some of this and try and get my head around this topic by putting myself in the role of the son of the Black Dahlia murderer who famously sawed a woman in half in L.A. a few decades ago and was supposedly never caught. I propose in the film that thought the son may not have known what the father did to that woman or any of the other possible victims he may have murdered, the legacy runs through the son due to an abusive upbringing and possibly a genetic hand me down. It is also not left out of the question that the father, who appears to the son in the murder scene , is not the father at all, but possibly the father's familiar now attached to and in control of the son using the fathers visage to manipulate the son into doing as he does.