Hilarious. You all love spicy foods but are big scaredy cats!
When I was around 5, I went to a 'haunted house' at church. This must be one that Mom remembers going with me... all I remember is walking by one room with a mock-surgery, screaming and blood. AND I WAS TERRIFIED! Like Jackie, I've also been to Screams, but the scariest part of that was driving a truck home in the cold, without a defroster, in the rain and hydroplaining past the stop sign at the exit. Also, Reindeer Manor, which the HS drama department used as a fundraiser. I was 'volunteered' to be a chainsaw/hotdog factory victim and got fake blood on my clothes. Like Justin, I experienced Hotard from Hell. And I took Matthew to a haunted house in Dallas one year, though I remember that being dissapointing.
Today's Question of the Day? is:
What are some of the scariest movies you've seen? Please feel free to include movies from your childhood.
Love,
The Asker
8 comments:
I DO NOT DO SCARY!!! It stays with me for the rest of my life. I think I saw the Exorcist in college but if I did, it was with my eyes closed so, does that count? I either leave the room or close my eyes at the trailers on TV because I don't do scary. I didn't even watch the Lord of the Rings!!!! I am such a wimp!!!
Ah. The Exorcist! I had read the book and then we went to the movie.
I had to walk out. I could not watch it!
And some of the CSI TV shows on prime time TV are pretty gross....
I don't like watching them either.
City of God
In my child mind, the Wizard of Oz was pretty scary. As it was shown on TV only once per year when I was a child, we would always watch it, but I would watch the part with the flying monkeys from behind the couch! EEEhheehee.
Scariest movie that I still won't watch : Mothman Prophecies.
Husband's scariest movie : The Ghost and the Darkness (He's only scared of REAL things, whereas I'm scared of things that aren't real, like ghosts)
BUT! Storytime, for the scariest movie experience ever. Take a seat.
While I was still in college, my husband and I got a job working for a cat sanctuary just outside College Station. No pay, but rent and utilities covered. It was off in the boonies a bit - a medium sized mobile home in the middle of a great big field. The field was lit by a single emergency light outside, and the grass grew taller than me in the summer. The front yard sported a small man-made pond which would spew thick billows of early morning fog on a regular basis.
We lived there with 16 cats, feeding and cleaning up after them.
One night, we decided to go watch a movie at the local theatre. Turns out the joint was so small they only had a single movie playing. Something called "Signs" by the same fellow the did Sixth Sense. However, it was late at night, and I was not up to a scary movie.
"Oh, no way is this a scary movie," my husband assured me.
I believed him, more's the pity.
We sit down and the opening credits roll past.
"This sounds like scary movie music," I whisper to him.
"Naaa...can't be," he replies, followed a moment later by, "Hmm, this does sound like scary movie music."
We watched the movie. It was moderately scary, but excellent. We left the theatre and I felt confident in my ability to protect myself, should fictional aliens attack.
The next night, roundabout 1am, the power went out in the mobile home. I jolted awake immediately and lay in bed, listening. The only light came from the nearly full moon shining through the window.
From the kitchen and living room, I heard a series of loud thumps and pitter patters (I mentioned the sixteen cats, right?).
From the BATHROOM (IN THE ROOM WITH US) the toilet began to make wet gurgling noises which sounded EXACTLY like the aliens from the movie. EXACTLY. (My husband backs me up on this).
Terror striken, I gather enough courage to lean over and shake the hubby. "Psst. Wake up. I'm scared."
Groggily, he lifts his head and listens for a moment. "Huh. That IS scary," he said, then FELL BACK ASLEEP.
I couldn't wake him.
I had to crawl through the pitch dark mobile home in the middle of a field of tall grass with soupy fog, alien toilets, and things going bump in the night to the phone so I could call the power company and let them know it had gone out again.
For WEEKS, I darted from the front door to my car door for my early morning classes, just in case the fog and grass hid an alien, waiting to get me.
And I will NEVER let my husband live it down! Falling asleep! When I obviously needed protection! HARRUMPH.
I've seen the Scream movies. The first one was about my level of scary. The others weren't scary at all.
But even shows like Pushing Daisy's I don't like anyone jumping out and startling me.
I don't like mystery. It's not just the gore I can't handle. If I know all the details before hand I can handle mystery type movies like the sixth sense. but the more 'thriller' ones, are on my NO WAY list.
I spent my junior high years reading Stephen King. I saw a few of those movies when they came out, but they were never as scary as his books.
Love TamiJean's story!! That is great!! I think the moral of that story is not to live in cat santuary!!
Zombieland was the last "scary" movie I saw. It was really good and so funny but made me jump a few times.
However, Signs is the scariest movie I've ever seen. Something about creepy alien movies freaks me out.
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