Ah, October. Leaves are changing color, and everyone is
talking about football, or the return of The
Walking Dead. (YES!) Halloween is just around the corner. As a child I
loved everything about Halloween from making decorations to dressing up to
trick-or-treating and bringing home a mountain of candy. I didn’t particularly
like being scared, but a little bit was okay—the kind of scared when I knew I
was really safe, such as a tour of a haunted house, or going to a scary movie. (These
days, the prices of the ‘good candy’ alone are enough to scare me!)
We love scary movies in my house. I married a man who grew
up watching Vincent Price and shows called Chiller
and Thriller and even Twilight Zone. Movies back then used to
advertise that there would be a doctor in the theater for those who might find
themselves in need of one. One oldie I watched even had flashing lights and a
clanging bell when something scary was about to happen, in case the viewer
wanted to avert his or her eyes. *snort*
On our first date, my future husband took me to the drive-in
movies to watch Friday the 13th, the first movie starring villain Jason Voorhees.
It scared me sufficiently that I spent the second half of the show much closer
to my date (possibly his ulterior motive for choosing that movie?) My mother nearly
passed out when we told her later. Much later.
That was the beginning of our relationship, and our joint
love of scary movies. We’ve seen a good share of them. Many were really awful. Some
were just gory. A few were top notch, such as the first Halloween movie. (The
sequels slowly went downhill.)
Hubby doesn’t like demonic or satanic themes, so we don’t
watch those. I don’t like violent gore-fests where bad things happen to
good, innocent people for no reason. (This does not include those teenage camp
counselors in the Friday the 13th movies. Those kids
should have known better.)
I am guilty of recently watching the 2013 supernatural thriller Mama because it starred Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister from Game of Thrones). But that’s a whole ‘nother topic, right there. And don’t even get me started on The Walking Dead. Best zombie show ever!
Happy October and Happy Halloween to those who celebrate it!
Jamie Hill
Love Halloween but have no love of scary movies or TV shows. I'm a crime junky and violence there doesn't completely bother me but show my the ghoulish kind of movies and I dive for the floor. Even was freaked out by the trees in Snow White,
ReplyDeleteI'll be keeping my lights on again. I've always been a bit touchy about sharing my birthday month with every kind of ghoul, ghost, zombie, and sliterhing monster Hollywood could create. I prefer the pumpkins -- wimp I am. I can just picture you and John in that drive in with you shaking in your boots. Smart man.
ReplyDeleteHalloween is much more of an event in Canada and the US than it ever used to be in the UK. I'm a real chicken when it comes to scary stuff and rarely watch those kind of movies. Something like Godzilla, which is totally over the top, or Sharknado (groan) I can handle, but I guess it's e case of each to his own.
ReplyDeleteHey Janet, I love crime tv, movies and books too. My favorite genre, especially when there's a little romance mixed in! Jude, I'm guilty of shutting the lights off, too. After 21 years taking care of children, by evening time I was done. Hi Ms. Vicki Anon, we haven't seen Sharknado but it's on our list (double groan) but the Piranha series was great! David Hasselhoff had a cameo, LOL Thanks for commenting everyone. Jamie
ReplyDeleteI don't think scary movies today as as scary as they were in the '40s and '50s, with Lon Chaney's Wolfman movies and Frankenstein's monster.
ReplyDeleteCute pictures, here.
I've never been a fan of scary movies--they used to give me nightmares, lol!
ReplyDeleteGreat post Jamie,
ReplyDeleteI don't like scary movies either, I am a bit of a chicken I'm afraid.
Cheers
Margaret
Thanks for commenting Shirley, Ann and Margaret. Scary movies aren't for everyone but I'm pretty brave about them. I'm a big chicken about real life things like getting lost in strange cities! Jamie
ReplyDeleteThose dogs in costumes are priceless! We have a golden dachshund and I always think of dressing him up like a toffee roll.
ReplyDeleteI've never been into scary movies, but I do remember watching The Twilight Zone when I was a kid. It scared me so much, that's probably why I stopped seeing further scary stuff. Loved the pictures
ReplyDeleteI love Silence of the Lambs but so much on special effects they aren't scary. A good example is the original and the remake of King Kong.
ReplyDeleteNope, hiding under the bed here. I prefer the supernatural, psychological kind of thriller, but the bloody is not on my menu.
ReplyDeleteLove the doggy costumes--have a friend who does her dachs up proud every year. One year he was The Highlander. :)
Thanks everyone for stopping by. Never knew what scaredy cats all my friends are, LOLOL just kidding! Jamie
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