I immediately perceive every little sound and shadow passing through my house is in a fact a raving, bearded lunatic with a butcher knife coming to murder me while I shower. I have also been known to mistake an innocent little fox as the Jersey Devil at 2 in the morning.
It is a little known fact that I actually enjoy horror movies, but I rarely watch them, because I scare myself to the point of covering myself with my comforter like a two year-old. Nothing seems to turn out okay after I force myself to watch a horror movie.
The strange part about all of this, however, is that I try to force this blatant and incredible fear onto my friends and relatives. I, who cowers like a child and hides under a freaking blanket whenever the wind changes direction, tell my comrades to try this. I tell them that these films are not in the least bit scary, and yet I am the one who needs counseling after a brief encounter with a faceless demon on a computer screen.
This is where expectations converge with reality.
Say that you buy some cake mix or something.
EXPECTATIONS:
When I watch a horror movie, this is what happens. Except instead of milk, sugar and eggs, it's substituted with blood, stalking, and scary noises that make me pee my pants every single time.
I believe that it is karma, rearing its ugly head at the fact that telling your friends about scary things almost always leads to you being forced to cower under your sheets from Gorgons.
In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have been left alone with a complete library of horror movies...
I gotta say, those pics add volumes to your work. But what sort of movie scares you?
ReplyDeleteThriller movies, mostly. Like the Blair Witch Project, Marble Hornets, and Paranormal Activity. I think it's because you don't know what, exactly, is scaring you. The fact that the filmmakers leave it up to you to decide makes it all the more frightening.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, while would urge you to watch every movie on this list, there should be a few on here you might enjoy:
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Of that list, I would pay particular attention to 'The Amityville Horror', 'The Exorcist', 'Invasion of the Body-Snatchers', 'Psycho', and if you feel particularly daring, 'Cannibal Holocaust'.