Maybe it was all the Halloween costume shopping the other day that got me in the mood for spookiness, but I LOVE this time of year. All the pumpkin scented candles, lattes, and muffins, the first chilly mornings, fires in the fireplace, hayrides and apples. I get the warm fuzzies just thinking about it (It's still 80 degrees here in North Carolina, but I like to get a head start on things.) I also love those 13 days of horror movies that show up on TV every year leading up to Halloween. For some reason though, the older I get the more easily disturbed I am by some of these gorefests. There are some movies which I wish I'd never seen and really want to delete from my memory forever.
#1. 'The Mist' by Stephen King. It's relatively new, so I won't be a spoiler (and also I can't even type what happened because it's that bad), but that very last scene where the guy is screaming will haunt me for the rest of my life. It's so fucked up and I wish I could locate the part of my brain where the memory of this scene is stored and have it sliced out. Which brings me to...
#2. 'Hannibal', you know, Silence of the Lambs II. The part where Hannibal Lecter saws off the top of the dudes skull like a melon, scoops out a little piece of brain, sautes it up with some garlic and shallots, and then feeds the dude his own brain. I have a little vomit in the back of my throat just thinking about it.
#3. 'The Ring'. Holy crap, their faces are disgusting and when the little girl crawled out of the TV, I accidentally gulped Diet Coke down my wind pipe.
#4. 'The Exorcist'. Not the old version, but the redo of the old version that came out a few years ago. Apparently there was a bunch of fucked up shit that didn't make it into the first version, so they reedited it all back in and made some more money off of jerks like me. While spinning heads and demonic possession don't seem to faze me, send that little girl walking down the stairs backwards on her hands like a crab, and I'm out.
#5 'Halloween', yes it's a cliche, but it freaks me out every time because it really could happen. Ok, not the part where Michael Myers gets shot 6 times, falls out the window, and is still alive. But the rest of it could be real. Whenever Lennie wakes up in the morning with me shellacked onto his arm and the bedroom door has been locked, you can bet I stayed up late to watch 'Halloween'.
There was another Stephen King one from my childhood, 'IT'. My lovely friend, Susana, who grew up two houses down from me used to stand on her front porch at night when I had to walk home, turn off the only light, and squeak, "Keep away from the sewers or Pennywise will get you." I ran home right up the middle of the road in the pitch blackness rather than risk being dragged into the sewers by a fucked-up clown.
And we can't forget the time Seth and I went to see 'The Blair Witch Project' late one night, and then I had to drop Seth off at his job. At a summer camp. In the woods. At night. And, he had to walk a mile by himself on an unlit road to get back to his bunk. Sorry 'bout that one, Seth.
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Blair Witch, even though I am teased for it, scared the bejesus right out of me. I am completely devoid of the bejesuses.
The Ring shook me up, too, but not nearly as much as it did my teen-aged daughter, whom we still find ways to taunt about. Things like, in the middle of a conversation, one of will just randomly say, "you know, Laura, that she never sleeps." Or how we take the red ladder from the Lincoln Log set and place it where she is sure to see it.
The Mother of the Year award is in the mail, I am sure.
There is another, obscure movie, starring Kevin Bacon: Stir of Echoes which shook me to my very core for some reason. That, and I saw Play it Forward as a horrifying movie - what could be more terrifying than your child dying due to your lack of common sense, brains, maternal instinct, etc.?
The one that got me was Copycat, with Harry Connick, Jr. Seriously. I can't use a public restroom in peace ever again.
Ooooh I love scary movies.
We saw...oh, what is it, Captivity, not long ago. That was good.
I grew up on the Nightmare on ElmStreet series. What fun.
There are so many, but at the top of my head, the ones that fucked with me immensely are:
1. Event Horizon: Can't spoil it, you just have to see it.
2. Silence of the Lambs: It puts the lotion in the basket. *shudder*
3. Cujo: FUCK. THAT.
4. Jacob's Ladder: The part with the wife dancing is so messed up. The psychological shit in that movie is scary as hell.
5. The Shining: This one's just a given.
Blair Witch freaked me the f out too. I went to a midnight movie with friends and was scared shitless to drive home alone at 2am when it ended.
Poltergeist also freaked me out. The little girl getting sucked into the TV and the freaky ass clown. CarolAnne, Step into the light...... Ugh. I heard about the original little girl who died on the set and it had me convinced that stuff was real.
I'm SOO with you on "The Mist"...that is just WRONG!! But for my tastes, I generally like flicks that are more get into your head than just flat out gore. My hubbs HATES scary movies and won't watch them. I still enjoy "Ghost Ship" and the all time scariest for me is "Prince of Darkness" its an oldie for sure, but rent it some time. And sleep with the lights on. The remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, "The Invasion" was pretty good actually!
I don't do well with scary movies.
I used to watch "Unsolved Mysteries" on TV when I was young and I would run upstairs to my room and lock the door behind me. I thought the stupid convict that they were trying to find just maybe was outside my house peering through my windows.
I watched "Disterbia" not too long ago...I was freaked out for days. I was convinced that my neighbor was a killer.
CARRIE!! I mean, how much worse can it be than watching the pigs blood drip slowly down her face, over her eyes that are so wide-open like a crazy psycho nut???? I have NEVER forgotten that movie, and seriously could not watch it today.
And someone mentioned CUJO. Oh my god.
I couldn't imagine CUJO meeting blood covered CARRIE. Damn.
Haaa!! And just when I thought "IT" was going to be forgotten. Nice.
*Except, um, I don't think I "squeaked," thank you very much*
To this day, I don't think I could walk to your house at night past the damn sewer. "We all float down here. ..."
I thought of you the other day, here in Guatemala, while walking past a DVD stand at the market. I'm in happy traveler land when SMACK I have evil clown staring at me. Shivers.
Exorcist is BY FAR the worst. Seeing the out-takes years later was not wise.
The Grudge is pretty creepy too. Although, I will freak my husband out making that hollow noise from it. In the dark of the night I have been known to do it just to see a grown man get "girly". LOL Yes, I am demented too. ;o)
Also, You've been nominated:
http://knaphrodesiac.blogspot.com/2008/09/and-id-like-to-thank-academy.html
Oh, I feel for Seth. That sounds beyond scary.
I'm a total wuss about scary movies.
But give me a scary book any day. I may still see monsters in the dark, but I can handle it. Kind of.
"Happy Birthday To Me" is my fav scary movie. And "Final Destination" I tried to watch the second FD movie after having my son and just couldn't do. It freaked me out...and I may have been a little hormonal since baby was 3 days old. People (kids) started getting killed and I just started crying and shut it off!
I had a darling babysitter when I was six, who let me watch the Exorcist one night, after which I couldn't sleep in the dark for about five years. Thanks babysitter!! My parents were delighted.
Yes, Pennywise was freaking scary -- thankfully I didn't see that until I was an adult.
I pretty much avoid the scary movies these days. I went to "I am Legend" without knowing the scary angle of it, but still liked it a lot. I think things that are disturbing are something that stay with me more -- like "Gone baby, gone." I cried for about a day.
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