My best friend Pammie and I go to the movies all the time. As my "date," when we see scary movies, she is subjected to me squeezing her hands until the circulation cuts off, tugging on her sweater sleeves to hide my eyes (RUINED one black sweater of hers, as a matter of fact, during SE7EN).
But few movies freak me out more than zombie flicks. Undead? They terrify me. Two nights ago I watched I Am Legend. Yeah, I know critics didn't love it. But flesh-eating zombies? Of COURSE it's a Christmas movie!
What is even funnier, I guess, is how I define scary. You see . . . Friday the 13th didn't scare me. I mean, come on? Freddie Krueger? I laugh in the face of this gloves. And those movies where you answer a cellphone and next thing you know, you're dead? Come on! Or those Final Destination ones? I laugh in the face of their gore.
But zombies? Well, they could really happen!
So could devils! The Exorcist had me awake for a week after I saw it.
I don't know why I have this pecking order of what I believe could really happen and thus it's scary. But I do.
The only movies I avoid in that realm are torture porn flicks like Saw. See . . . that's just sick. Not scary.
But tell me . . . what movies keep YOU awake at night?
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