Its Only 365 Days
276/365: FEAR
3 OCT 13
October hath landed, and is the month of Halloween and scary movies and such. I'm trying to think of the last movie that legit gave me the heeby jeebies, and I'd have to give that honor to The Ring (The original version). I saw this forever and a go before the American version came out. I was watching it at home, alone, and when it finished...I cannot make this up, the tv went all staticky when I pulled the DVD out and at the exact moment, the phone rang. I was like, Ohhhhhhhhhh heeeeeeeeellllllllllllllll nooooooooooooooo! I didn't answer the phone. I was like F-that. I have since seen the American version which I felt wasn't scary at all because the original didn't have any jump cuts so you couldn't escape the horror of the girl oozing from the tv, but the American one did, and I was like, womp womp, lame.
Thinking back to when I was a kid, there were three movies that gave me nightmares. The first was the aptly named, Nightmare on Elm Street. My dad was like, no way, my kids are going to see this movie, and we snuck and saw it anyway, and the next thing I knew I was on the couch and couldn't sleep. My dad woke me up b/c of course I'd eventually fallen asleep and he was like, what are you doing up little one, to bed with you, and he scooped me up and carried me to my room and then I was like dad, don't leave, LOL!!!!
The second was most definitely Poltergeist. The thing that most terrified me about this one was my bed in our old house, faced my walk in closet, and instead of a nightlight, my mom would sometimes leave the light on in there...holy mother...after seeing that, she had the light on in there as usual, but it looked just like the movie and I swear all my stuffed animals were alive in there talking about trying to steal my soul. That movie F'd me up for reals. I don't think I've ever seen the movie since. P.S. they are doing a re-make 2014.
The last movie is really just comical because it's not a scary movie at all. In fact, its quite a nerdy movie, Short Circuit which featured a former U.S. military robot built originally for the Cold War, who winds up being struck by lighting and gaining sentience. Basically the movie is a bunch of comical scenes of the robot discovering what humanity is like...but for some reason, after seeing this movie, I became really scared of door knobs. I can't even explain in. I would freak out about the door knob at the end of the hall. I really did not like that robot. It's probably one of the funniest things that ever happened to me in retrospect. Oh boy. Speaking of irrational fears, it reminds me of this girl once at work. We were having a festival for the kids, and they had these clowns at the end of the hall. Well, after attending a friends birthday party, she stepped out and LOST HER SH*T. She started screaming...not just like quiet screams, like loud everybody is turning around and wondering what's happening screams. Her mom looks up and is like, oh my god, get them out of there now. I told her, I can't, they are basically entertaining those other children down there. The girl was just flipping out. It was almost like the equivalent of a 2 year old tantrum except she was 12. I walked down the hall, and kindly asked if the clowns could step behind the wall while the girl and her mother left, and they did, but the girl could I guess sense them there because she was crying hysterically and hitting at her mom and trying to run. I'm not going to lie...it was one of the best laughs I've had. I was telling my co-workers, guess that white elephant DVD of "IT" was a bad choice.
Says the kid once scared of door knobs....
276/365: FEAR
3 OCT 13
October hath landed, and is the month of Halloween and scary movies and such. I'm trying to think of the last movie that legit gave me the heeby jeebies, and I'd have to give that honor to The Ring (The original version). I saw this forever and a go before the American version came out. I was watching it at home, alone, and when it finished...I cannot make this up, the tv went all staticky when I pulled the DVD out and at the exact moment, the phone rang. I was like, Ohhhhhhhhhh heeeeeeeeellllllllllllllll nooooooooooooooo! I didn't answer the phone. I was like F-that. I have since seen the American version which I felt wasn't scary at all because the original didn't have any jump cuts so you couldn't escape the horror of the girl oozing from the tv, but the American one did, and I was like, womp womp, lame.
Thinking back to when I was a kid, there were three movies that gave me nightmares. The first was the aptly named, Nightmare on Elm Street. My dad was like, no way, my kids are going to see this movie, and we snuck and saw it anyway, and the next thing I knew I was on the couch and couldn't sleep. My dad woke me up b/c of course I'd eventually fallen asleep and he was like, what are you doing up little one, to bed with you, and he scooped me up and carried me to my room and then I was like dad, don't leave, LOL!!!!
The second was most definitely Poltergeist. The thing that most terrified me about this one was my bed in our old house, faced my walk in closet, and instead of a nightlight, my mom would sometimes leave the light on in there...holy mother...after seeing that, she had the light on in there as usual, but it looked just like the movie and I swear all my stuffed animals were alive in there talking about trying to steal my soul. That movie F'd me up for reals. I don't think I've ever seen the movie since. P.S. they are doing a re-make 2014.
The last movie is really just comical because it's not a scary movie at all. In fact, its quite a nerdy movie, Short Circuit which featured a former U.S. military robot built originally for the Cold War, who winds up being struck by lighting and gaining sentience. Basically the movie is a bunch of comical scenes of the robot discovering what humanity is like...but for some reason, after seeing this movie, I became really scared of door knobs. I can't even explain in. I would freak out about the door knob at the end of the hall. I really did not like that robot. It's probably one of the funniest things that ever happened to me in retrospect. Oh boy. Speaking of irrational fears, it reminds me of this girl once at work. We were having a festival for the kids, and they had these clowns at the end of the hall. Well, after attending a friends birthday party, she stepped out and LOST HER SH*T. She started screaming...not just like quiet screams, like loud everybody is turning around and wondering what's happening screams. Her mom looks up and is like, oh my god, get them out of there now. I told her, I can't, they are basically entertaining those other children down there. The girl was just flipping out. It was almost like the equivalent of a 2 year old tantrum except she was 12. I walked down the hall, and kindly asked if the clowns could step behind the wall while the girl and her mother left, and they did, but the girl could I guess sense them there because she was crying hysterically and hitting at her mom and trying to run. I'm not going to lie...it was one of the best laughs I've had. I was telling my co-workers, guess that white elephant DVD of "IT" was a bad choice.
Says the kid once scared of door knobs....