Horses..

[Mannequin]

Those merry-go-round horses are revolting, they scare the crap out of me! and the way the sharp hooks go through their bodies make me feel all weird.

[dreggnog]

I have some friends so are really psychologically disturbed by them. They hate the way they come to life and the music during the boss fights scares them. (It might go deeper than that was well, sometimes they don't like going to deep into it.)

I used to find it scary more from a gameplay perspective. I was seriously scared I wouldn't be able to "kill" them all in time. However, I've never lost at that part once.

[Mannequin]

I feel like they are trapped, in pain and forced to go round to circles forever..

[patient]

That was the scariest part of Silent Hill 3 for me. That, and the Otherworld hospital.

But having to kill the horses really traumatized me for the rest of the game. Stuck on those hooks, forced to die slowly by a blade... (unless you wanted to waste your bullets.) Just seemed like animal abuse!

[blacky]

All your comments make me feel disgusted at myself for enjoying the moments when I bashed the hell out of the horses

[Lolli]

I never thought of them as being real horses before now. Oh great, now I'll never be able to play that bit of the game without feeling sad.

Though I have always wondered what they represented. Horses are something I can't seem to pin to the game.

[mr. worncoat]

Perhaps their connection is something as simple as a take on what becomes of the "innocence" of a child, that childhood "innocence" is a complete lie, or that Heather's/Alessa's take on such things isn't exactly tied to "aw, horsies!".

I mean really, if you think about it, a merri-go-round is nothing but animals peirced through the midsection for the delight of children to ride them to repetitive music until what time boredom fills in and they go throw ping pong balls at goldfish or feast themselves on the frozen byproducts of forcibly milked cows.

Perhaps my only point here is that children are horrible monsters for liking this stuff, and we're horrible monsters for agreeing. Or maybe we need to stop being so moralistic and eat more slaughtered horse.