Ettinger's monsters

I've always loved horror movies.

Chills, nail biting and a lot of screaming were always a fun thing to do every time I had the opportunity to see one of the genre in a theatre with a 70mm screen and surround sound.

Quite naturally our younger readers will giggle because they watch everything they want on their home entertainment systems.

I believe they have gone bug-eyed with the plethora of All Hallows' Eve films like Saw 4 and the latest Rob Zombie production Halloween and yet nothing quite gets my hair standing like The Omen, Frankenstein's Monster, the House of Wax and all those Dracula movies with those beautiful but evil women; even if I've watched them tens of times.

Dead bodies, crypts and the quest of some evil person looking to live for eternity by dining on someone else's blood has always given me the heebie jeebies; so, imagine my shock at finding out that there are some 167 cryo-suspended corpses somewhere in the USA, each one waiting to become a modern day Lazarus.

Well I have read a lot of sci-fi books and watched a lot of sci-fi movies and the finale was never happy so how can scientists suspending dead flesh in liquid nitrogen in the hope of finding the cure to bring them back as human as can be, ever be successful?

And even if they find the elixir of life what guarantee is there that a decrepit body will house a sound mind?

Further, will all those memories of a previously natural life come back to help them or haunt them?

Will they live a whole new life or will it stay the same old one?

Even if their spirit is willing will the flesh cope and if by some stroke of luck everything is normal how will our planet cope with a burgeoning number of people because nobody ever dies; they get resurrected again and again?

Well I'm now bug-eyed with thinking about life after life and what could happen.

If you have any answers to my questions please write back. If you don't, have a happy belated Halloween.