Being as it was Halloween ‘an all, I had planned to write a blog last week about the creepy village I live in, but I changed my mind when I watched Halloween Resurrection on Saturday night. Now it is no secret that Michael Myers rates number 2 on my list of things I fear the most, right after spiders, which I find totally alien (there is absolutely no justification why they need eight horrible, hairy legs). Anyway, I snuggled under my duvet and, with hubby snoring next to me, I watched the whole movie. Anyone who has seen ‘Resurrection’ will no doubt agree with me when I say it doesn’t hold a torch to the original Halloween film. In fact I have no idea what number in the franchise this one is and, to be honest, I don’t care enough to spend the two minutes needed to Google it, but my god, does Michael Myers scare the crap out of me.
A little piece of information you should know about me before I continue. Not much will frighten me. If I hear a noise during the night, I will go and investigate. Yeah sure, I thought I was going to have a heart attack while I walked alone (walked you hear, and I rebuke all rumours that say I nervously edged my screaming self round) the House of Horrors in LA’s Universal Studios, but the adrenaline rush was amazing!
Well, after the film finished I wanted to go to the loo (that means ‘toilet’ to my American friends) and, as always after I watch Michael Myers for 90 minutes, I was scared to leave my bedroom.
This got me thinking. What was it about his character that scared me so much? I’ve watched all kinds of horror films and none of them have this effect on me, Vacancy, Wrong Turn, Friday 13th, The Crazies, and Tremors. Ok, I am kidding with the last one, although will admit to loving it. I thought it could be because there are many Michael Myers out there for real. No? How many stories do we read in newspapers of people being butchered in their own homes or knife wielding maniacs dragging women off to their death? Way too many to mention on my small and mere blog, I can tell you. Then I watched another film called ‘The Strangers’. For the entire film my heart beat so hard against my chest I actually questioned whether this is what it felt like before someone died of fright – I kid you not! But why had this film also scared me to such a point that I would think this?
I’ve pondered over this for a while now and this is what I’ve finally come up with. In both Halloween and The Strangers, all the killers are wearing masks. You cannot see their faces, only the blacks of their eyes. These masks stop me from seeing any emotion shown on their faces, hence I have absolutely no idea what they are thinking or planning to do next. This to me is utterly frightening.
My husband cannot watch paranormal/ghost films, heck he struggles to get through an episode of Supernatural, and yet these films do not scare me. Why is that? Why does one film scare me and another scare someone else?
So, as an experiment, I want to know who or what scares you and more specifically, why.
The movie Poltergeist scared me. I was taking care of the family farm by myself when I saw it, and I didn’t sleep all night for wondering if the pork chops in the kitchen were busy dancing. Then I would wonder if I was going to attract a poltergeist by the mere fact that I was occupying my imagination with dancing pork chops. No way to win that one. Happy to report nothing was amiss in the kitchen the next day. Loved your post. All the best.
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Now this film would freak my hubby out. He finds it really hard watching ghost and supernatural stories. I’ll have to dig it out and put it on over the weekend. I feel like making him pay for something or other. Thanks for the idea! 😀
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Spiders – it feels like a stupid fear. I am sure I shouldn’t be afraid of them but it is that they can be in the bed with me and I don’t know it. I have always been scared of them but when I was 16 I went down in our basement and moved this box of stuff I wanted to take to college and there were hundreds of spiders under it. After that I am paralyzed by fear. Plus, we have brown recluse (poisonness) spiders in Maryland.
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Oh my god! I hate spiders for a number of reasons, and you have just given me a whole bunch more to add to my list. Spiders in yours bed!!! I am never going to sleep tonight now. 😀 Thanks for sharing this one, I love it!
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Zombies. I cannot watch zombie movies, anything on tv, or even watch someone playing a videogame with zombies. It is totally irrational, as zombies don’t (and hopefully will never) exist. I think it’s the lack of reasoning and humanity in them – vampires, ghosts, werewolves, all supernatural beings like that have some semblance of soul or spirit. Hypothetically, if they are going to attack you, you can reason with a ghost, or vampire, as they are still human to an extent, but zombies are just vacant flesh-bags whose only conscious thought is to eat you. You can’t fool them either – with a bear, you drop and play dead, it’ll leave you alone. A zombie will eat you anyway.
In the event of a zombie apocalypse, I will hide in a locked panic room and not come out until they’ve gone away.
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LOL, Becca you’ve made me smile. I love your way of thinking! Now get over to the Six Sentences post and give me a story. I want to see where your imagination takes you!
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