Screaming for 30 Days
30 Days of Night has a terrible script, full of plotholes and cardboard characters that you wish to slap sense into rather than watch get killed by vampires. The hero always tries to save the day; the heroine always needs to be saved; the town loner comes to the town's rescue; and a whole lot of things are left unexplained by the end. However, I was completely sucked in and was terrified by the horrific vampires that invade an isolated Alaska town for a 30-day-long human carnage. Kudos goes to the director for injecting tons of suspense and gore into a film that could have easily got lost under a weak story.
I don't watch horror movies on the big screen very often so, when I do, I jump, cower, cover my face, suffer through heart palpitations and think of leaving a million times. I think it all boils down to when I was 5-years-old and my aunt convinced me to go into an amusement park's haunted house with her eventhough I was scared shitless. I've been chasing that combination of fear and excitement ever since.
I sat in the theatre between kixie and denalyia, while the boys - bottled_cat, his housemate and zenithed - flanked us. I actually felt part of the girls since there was a lot of jumping, mouth-covering and groans between the three of us. I even held hands with Kixie at one point! And, of course, we muttered and nearly shouted at the screen when characters did (the expected) stupid things that would call the vampires' attention to their hiding places. All in all, it was a really fun afternoon which I need to repeat more often. It's the closest I get to riding a roller coaster these days.
The trailer for an upcoming horror film, Shrooms, caught my attention. I've known so many people who've had bad experiences with magic shrooms, as well as heard some horror tales bordering on urban legends regarding bad trips, that it's actually a wonder nobody thought of making a movie about it before. If anyone feels like holding my hand through it, let me know!