Do You Like Scary Movies?
I totally scared the shit out of myself this morning. [Rewind for Halloween Recap: dressed up as Beyonce for one party, a queen / black Paris Hilton for another party and then -- on Halloween proper -- I didn't dress up but I had a nice, laid back time with Big D Girl and Bro at the Zookeeper's party.] Now, back to the scare. Okay, so, I wake up this morning, and I decide that I’m going to write a post about scary movies. Darwin did a kick-ass post on horror flicks yesterday, and it inspired me to come up with a list of my favorite scary movies. Okay, so, The Shining is one of my all-time favorites horror flicks, right? Well, I’m looking around the web for a picture of Danny Lloyd (the kid on the big wheel who says “Red Rum”). I image google “The Shining”, and all these really creepy pictures of Jack Nicholson come up. But, it’s pretty early in the morning. So it’s quiet, right? Well, all of a sudden, there’s this click sound in the apartment because someone in the building either turned on the hot water or the heater clicked on or something. It isn’t anything big, but it’s enough to make me freak out. The hairs on the back of my neck stand up and I feel like, “Oh my gawd, Johnny’s hiding in my bathroom with an axe and he’s gonna chop the door down!!! Heeeeeere’s JOHNNY!!!” I get so creeped, that I can’t even bear to look at the photo that I found anymore.
Maaaaan, back in the day ( … um, that would be the eighties …), I used to watch scary movies with my sister who is quite a bit older than I am. I wanted to prove that I was a “big girl” who didn’t get scared easily, so I was like 5 years old and I was watching shit like Hellraiser. Add this to the fact that I’m a total movie junkie and you can pretty much figure that I’ve seen almost every single horror flick ever created from the 1980s until some time around Scream & Blair Witch.) After that, something happened. I got scared. So, while I’ll always count Scream, Nightmare on Elm Street, the Halloween flicks, The Exorcist, Carrie, The Shining and others to be some of the most interesting films of the genre, I just can’t do it anymore. Freaks me out too much. How about you? Do you like scary movies? Do you have a favorite one?
November 1st, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Scary movies scare the living shit out of me, and I can’t watch them. Can’t. I am a very visual person, and scenes will just pop into my mind out of the blue for days and days after watching something disturbing. My heart races, and next thing you know, I’m running as fast as I can to my bedroom and jumping headfirst into my bed so the boogie man doesn’t jump out of my closet of from under my bed to kill me.
Last night, I wanted to watch something a little Halloweenie (hee hee, I said “weenie”), but the scariest I could do was The Craft and Sixth Sense. How pathetic, huh? Ah well… ;o)
Hope your heart is beating at it’s regular pace again! Haha!
November 1st, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Most ’scary’ movies don’t scare me, so unless they twist it like say, “Shaun Of The Dead” or the upcoming “Severance” (another British horror/comedy) or Peter Jackson’s brilliant “Dead Alive” then I generally don’t watch.
The ones that creep me out are the psychological thrillers like “Silence Of The Lambs”. The movie that scared me the most this year was “V For Vendetta” because of how close we are to that kind of government if we don’t already have it to some extent.
THAT freakin’ scares me.
November 1st, 2006 at 1:43 pm
AmyD: Same here!!! I’m so freaked out by those movies now, that I can’t even watch them anymore. Thrillers? Yes. Horror? No.
Howard: Okay, “Shaun of the Dead” was a horror-comedy and that was GREAT!!! I love that movie. Haven’t seen “V For Vendetta” yet, but I saw a film in the same vein — i.e. totalitarian states suck — “Land of the Blind”. (I actually sat a couple of seats over from Donald Sutherland at the film’s opening at the Tribeca Film Festival this year.) VERY good movie!!
November 1st, 2006 at 2:11 pm
I am funny with scary movies. I couldn’t watch something like a Jason movie, What you did last summer?, ect. The scare the crap out of me!! The only exception being Freddy (only because Robert Englund was in V and I loved him). Oh also because the teenagers annoyed me and Freddy is funny :)
Seriel Killer movies (Silence of the Lambs, Saw, ect), I love. If it can actually happen, I can’t keep from watching it (aka my addiction to the History Channel, Discovery, A&E).
Now, I don’t count Vampires or Werewolves as scary because they are just misunderstood LOL :)
Movie I can never ever watch: The Exorcist. Saw it once…scared the heck out of me. The next one The Omen…never ever again!!!
November 1st, 2006 at 2:24 pm
So THAT’S why you didn’t get the ‘Saw’ quote, it came out after you really turned into the funky brown CHICKEN (sorry, couldnt resist!).
I personally jump and squeal for every little thing in a horror movie. And I get scared and cover my eyes and peek through them nevertheless. But once it’s over and the lights come on I’m all ‘Ah that was soooo tame!’. It’s like eating really really HOT spicy food…you know you want to but you also know it comes with a price!
November 1st, 2006 at 2:41 pm
I *heart* The Shining. It is one of my very favorite movies. I’m not a gore fan, so if it’s too bloody or has too much chopping people into little bits, I’m not interested. If it’s scary in a mind-trip kind of way, I’m good with that.
November 1st, 2006 at 3:22 pm
I don’t do scary movies, ever! The Shining, while scary, is more like a tradition in our family, everyone watches it. Even the little ones. I hate vampires but I love Lost Boys and Fright Night because of the comedy factor. I have never watched any of the Freddie or Jason movies. Gore freaks me out. The movies that have come out in recent years are just way too much for me. I watched a show last night about the 30 scariest movie moments and I had my hands in front of my eyes the whole time while my sister loved the show and had seen almost every movie on the list. Ugh!
November 1st, 2006 at 10:16 pm
There was this movie called Wrong turn that scared the crap out of me when I saw it for the first time. I recommended it to a friend that by phone ‘cuz he doesn’t live in-town as if it were THE movie and he said it turned out to be a piece of s*it.. hmm, so I watched it again.. and it was truth.. it did stink!! have any of u ever seen it??
November 1st, 2006 at 10:29 pm
I can’t watch them. None at all. I watched one the other day because it was a friend’s party and I would have felt bad if I didn’t (I admit it was a tame one, too) but it totally freaked me out (and that was after watching it with ~20 friends who all made fun of it).
I’m logical about it! I tell myself it doesn’t happen, etc etc, but my mind always revisits the scenes, replays them… I always replay movies in my mind so that’s normal, but it makes it a bad thing when it comes to horror/thriller/gore. So, I generally avoid them when I can. I haven’t even seen Scream or the Ring or whatever they all are (I don’t keep track).
November 2nd, 2006 at 6:58 am
Depends on the type of scarry. I can’t watch things like Scream because then I dream that someone’s gonna slash me up while I’m asleep in bed, but I can watch stuff like The Sixth Sense, though I get major creeps, but they’re not ‘I’m going to get murdered in my bed’ creeps, y’know?
November 2nd, 2006 at 7:05 am
Oh, and yes, I know I’m a wuss ;) Forgot to put that one in. Sounds like a nice Halloween you had there, I wonder how a black Paris Hilton looks like… ;) Tah!
November 2nd, 2006 at 8:34 am
History Chic: I love the History Channel!!! I’d given up TV (kicked the box) for years. But, now that I have cable again, I’m back to my old addiction. :) … And, oooh, The Omen is a GOOD movie!
Darwin: Yep, I’m a chicken! :)
MamaChristy: The Shining is a REALLY good movie!!
mel: Kubrick at his best. :)
Nat: Wrong Turn or U Turn? I’ve seen U Turn, but I haven’t seen Wrong Turn … It came out after I became a chicken. :)
kypris: SCREAM is a GOOD movie. It’s a horror-comedy so they actually make fun of scary movies. It’s not that bad. Don’t watch it alone; watch it with other people and you should be okay.
Firefly: Exactly! It’s that whole thriller vs. horror thing. Thrillers good, horrors, bad. And, by the way, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being a wuss when it comes to scary movies! :)