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I love, love October! It's scary movie month and I love scary movies!!! My friends think I'm odd.
I am watching Saw II right now. The Saw movies are great. I think they helped bring horror back in the mainstream, just like Freddy did. I don't think Saw was first in that - to me it was The Ring that did it. My friends even watched The Ring. Yeah, those friends that think I'm odd for loving horror movies. I don't care what they think about that though, it's been an almost life-long hobby. I was the 12-yr old that stayed up until the crack of dawn watching Chiller Theater.
One of those nights I happened to catch a movie by the name of The Exorcist. I had never seen anything like it. The little girl's head spinning around and the cuss words!!! I was terrified sitting alone in the dark in my parent's basement. I took the stairs by threes after it was over. That movie still scares me after all these years and I really don't know why. I watch it every year in October, along with my all-time favorite horror flick....the original Halloween. John Carpenter at his best, I believe. And it wouldn't be the same movie without Jamie Lee and Donald Pleasance. No matter what Rob Zombie did in the remake, he could have never topped that performance.
In the same period that I watched The Ring and Saw, another movie caught me: Hostel. And I'll add in the The Grudge too. I think The Ring and The Grudge are more psychological (and also foreign remakes) in their scare. And Saw and Hostel were going for the gore factor.
Creepy little kids are always scary to me. Hostel - I believe things like that really go on in the world. The first Saw, I was so focused on those two guys cutting their foot off with a hacksaw, I never paid any attention to the fellow in plain view. In the following Saw movies, I was just watching and waiting to see what the next "gag" was going to be. It was a welcome break from the usual ways people died in horror movies. Creative gore it was.
I am watching Saw II right now. The Saw movies are great. I think they helped bring horror back in the mainstream, just like Freddy did. I don't think Saw was first in that - to me it was The Ring that did it. My friends even watched The Ring. Yeah, those friends that think I'm odd for loving horror movies. I don't care what they think about that though, it's been an almost life-long hobby. I was the 12-yr old that stayed up until the crack of dawn watching Chiller Theater.
One of those nights I happened to catch a movie by the name of The Exorcist. I had never seen anything like it. The little girl's head spinning around and the cuss words!!! I was terrified sitting alone in the dark in my parent's basement. I took the stairs by threes after it was over. That movie still scares me after all these years and I really don't know why. I watch it every year in October, along with my all-time favorite horror flick....the original Halloween. John Carpenter at his best, I believe. And it wouldn't be the same movie without Jamie Lee and Donald Pleasance. No matter what Rob Zombie did in the remake, he could have never topped that performance.
In the same period that I watched The Ring and Saw, another movie caught me: Hostel. And I'll add in the The Grudge too. I think The Ring and The Grudge are more psychological (and also foreign remakes) in their scare. And Saw and Hostel were going for the gore factor.
Creepy little kids are always scary to me. Hostel - I believe things like that really go on in the world. The first Saw, I was so focused on those two guys cutting their foot off with a hacksaw, I never paid any attention to the fellow in plain view. In the following Saw movies, I was just watching and waiting to see what the next "gag" was going to be. It was a welcome break from the usual ways people died in horror movies. Creative gore it was.
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