THE RIGHT KIND OF SCARY
FAVE LINKEY-POO RIGHT THIS SECOND: My office is awesome but, seriously, I want to work here and sing Backstreet with hipster colleague friends.
A friend and I were chatting the other day about the right level of scary we crave in a movie. You see, we’re both cowards a little bit, but we both still really love to be scared. We agreed that Signs was a good scary/suspense movie that was freaky-deaky, but didn’t keep sleep at bay for days. Another was Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp (mmmmm…Johnny). I love that you don’t find out if the horseman is real or not until about halfway into the movie. Anything more than that — liiiike, The Exorcist, Saw, or Friday the 13th — is a little to much for me. And by much I mean I cry I’m so, so scared.
But even so, right now there are two Scareville temptations out there that are calling my name, but which might make me sleep with the nightlight on for days afterwards. One is the Paranormal Activity movie that everyone is talking about. The other is this creeptastic alien flick called The Fourth Kind. Here’s a trailer of the latter if you’re interested in seeing it but, I warn you, it’s crazy scary.
What is your threshold for scary? Are you a scare addict or is Monsters vs Aliens as far as you’ll go?
October 24th, 2009 at 12:12 am
I am like the biggest scare wimp ever. I actually saw the very beginning of the ring with hubs… andgot scared I had to get up and leave.
I can’t even handle like Scream… I am suchawimp
October 26th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Can handle scary if its so fantastically not-ever-going-to-happen. Its the could-be-legitimate stuff that freaks me out. Strange, but true? I can READ scary stuff… hmm.
October 30th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Actually, The Fourth Kind trailer made me laugh out loud. Good approach, making us think this is all from actual transcripts, but don’t you believe it for a second. It’s a MOVIE, folks. These people are skilled at making you scared, but you don’t have to believe it! OK, just my 2 cents.