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Does anyone else harbor a personal flashlight obsession or fetish?


This movie, besides being a decent horror supernatural, vengeful revenant flick, is all about flashlights, good and bad.

Does anyone else have a flashlight obsession or fetish? When I mean, 'fetish', I mean the generic cultural word, somewhat similar to, obsession, but not the same.

I'd have to put myself into that category as poor Kyle from the movie. While I don't own a barrel full of flashlights like he does, I do own a good number, far beyond what the average citizen usually owns, from zero to one. I must own at least a dozen.

Technology marches on. The old bulb flashlight, even the advanced halogen-bulb flashlights have gone the way of the dinosaur. Everything is LED now. All my flashlights are LEDs. I still own a number of decent-quality, metal DORCY flashlights, but have now focused on owning AA battery flashlights due to convenience. AAA battery flashlights are not as convenient.

Somewhat like Kyle, I am anxious about the electricity failing, leaving me in darkness. I'm also afraid of bein in a dark place without a flashlight, not so much for fear of the boogeyman but fear of stumbling and tripping and hurting myself, and also, unable to locate my way around. One OP was perceptive. The flashlight is a means of 'control' over one's situation in darkness. Take away the flashlight and we cannot see in darkness which means taking away our control of the situation and substituting helplessness.

Plus, LED flashlights are relatively inexpensive today. You don't need D battery flashlights for the most part. AA LED flashlights give you all the illumination you need.

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that's not a fetish... unless your life sexually pleasing yourself wwith it

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Understood...but to anyone else staring at your barrel of flashlights, they would definitely think you had some kind of, non-sexual fetish with flashlights.

I keep flashlights all around me in case of need. Occasionally that strategy pays off when I need a quick, handy light source.

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I have a fleshlight obsession. I have a fetish for shoving plastic dinosaurs up my wrong 'un every Friday.

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Do those fleshlights actually work as advertised? ;-))

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