movies of DOOOOM- I say...dooom
Growing up I was majorly banned from watching horror movies. It wasnt because of the normal excuses parents hand out to their kids, "Its too violent" "Its rated R" " you're too young"... nope, I was banned because of MY OWN ACTIONS.
Not long after my mum finished reading the novel 'Amityville horror', the movie came out and becuase my parents really wanted to see it and didnt have a baby sitter they were stuck taking my sister and I along to the drive in. (I do have the long version of this in my bio. If you are interested let me know and I can send the chapter to you... I was a very odd child). Within the first few minutes of the show the guy goes and takes out his parents and siblings. Because of this I began looking at my sister sideways. She could snap at any minute and kill me! It was possible wasnt it? I doubt anyone expected the Amintyville Guy would do it, it wasnt like he left them little notes stating "death is coming!"
I dont think I slept well for over a month and then like a dumb arse I snuck out to watch "halloween". I got no furture then 30 minutes in. It was enough time to see Michael Myers kill his SISTER. I was now POSSITIVE that my sister was gonna snuff me out. I definately couldnt tell my parents my fear as they too were trying to kill me by other means. I would be lucky to make it to my teen years.
My odd behavior forced my mum to put her foot down early in life and tell me "No more scarey movies! Its for your own good" (and my brain was whispering "thats because she doesnt want you to know its coming!!")
This in combo with the fact that I have NEVER had a normal dream in my life (every one of them is filled with death, torture and the end of the world in some various degree) has kept me from even WANTING to see a horror flick. sure it was hard on some level when I was in highschool as all teens want to go watch gore and guts, slasher films, etc and I didnt want to be found out about my over active imagination...but miraculiously I made it thru those years and only beat myself up a tiny bit for not being able to join in.
My husband knows this secret of mine and has avoided slasher films all these many years since knowing me so when I begged him to get us the remake of halloween he told me "No".. "Oh come on please! I can handle it... if I start to freak out we will turn it off." "No" . Its not that I had the desire to suddenly WANT to see these scary films but since Halloween was the one that got me officially banned I was hoping that the Rob Zombie version (having a bit of back ground to why Michael kills his sister) would give me some sort of closure. "are you kidding! Rob Zombie is gonna be WAY worse" But I kept poking the bear so at last he said "maybe... lets start at the bottom first."
so last night we sat down and watched 2 friday the 13ths.
(Im possitive everyone but me has seen these films so Im not even gonna try to hide any spoilers)
"damn that girl is a bad actress...wait... is she going have these corny lines the whole movie?" I commented watching the girl catch a ride with some trucker on her way to Crystal lake and it wasnt even 15 minutes in that I could not WAIT for this bitch to die as she was getting on my nerves.
The first killing happened.. the victim panicked and threw themselves against boxes while throwing such items as a ball of yarn, a hair brush, and other highly dangerious items at the killer and at last the camera zooms in as he lurches to kill, a scream and .........."Thats it!?" I felt cheated. Thats what I have been scared of all these years? the 2nd kill was a little more flashy. Finally it came to a point in the film where the teens open the pantry and an old man came out... he warns them to leave now or they will be "dooommmed" he croaks... "dooomed I tell you doomed"
this was a cause for a pause. "wait ... when this movie really came out was that part scary? was it MEANT to be scary? or is it a comic relief point... I'm serious. Did people in the theatres laugh or gasp?"
its so strange to watch a film that made years and years ago and to be so late on the band wagon that I dont know what my emotions should be. what I did know is that every turn in the film my husband and I had to call out "DOOMED... doooomed I say" followed by never ending giggles.
I felt NOTHING... not scared at all. My dream last night was something along the way of another end of the world bit and nothing blood related. Just me trying to stay sane and live in a world of debri (and I might have had to kill a few people along the way but nothing like in the movie). I understand that our special effects improve and the closer I get to films made in this era it might freak me out but for now with 2 'horror' movies behind me, I feel pretty damn good that I made it thru with little to no trama to my brain. so where the hell is my "I lived thru the Horror" T-shirt at? haha.
is it down right goofy to be proud that I sat thru a few horror flicks?
I'm a bit lost because I found myself laughing, I dont understand why people watch them. I dont like the feeling of unbelievable fear.. do people normally feel deep rooted fear and if so WHY would they want to watch them? and if this was scary to someone else, does it make me a sicko that I laughed? am I (wait for it... ) DOOOMMMED.... I say...dooommed!!
comments? scarest movie, movies I should avoid? Has anyone seen the Rob Zombie halloween and should I avoid it?