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Artist: Misfits Song: Helena [Embed For Use By Upgraded+]  Prompt via "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  : Today, let’s talk movies. What was the most recent movie you watched? Have you been to the theater recently? What movie are you looking forward to? What is your favorite movie of all time? I'm pretty much obsessed with anything horror-related. Horror movies, horror stories, horror games, horror art. I'm into it all. My parents were really weird in that they let me watch ANYTHING as a kid. I have older siblings and I'd sit alongside them while they watched slasher films when I was, like, three. I don't recommend it because I was petrified of everything as child.  I was afraid of getting massacred while walking down the hallway to my bedroom. I was afraid of getting kidnapped. I was afraid of ghosts and natural disasters. I was definitely afraid of the dark, being abducted by aliens, and contagious viruses.  You name it, I'd seen it in a movie and was scared of it.I always liked watching scary stuff, even when I was afraid of it. I'd excitedly pick out and consume anything that had a "scary" cover at the video store. As I got older though, I stopped being afraid of those things, probably because I realized that there are many real-life horrors that are statistically more likely to happen and should thus take precedence in the fear department.  By the time I was 10 or so, I didn't flinch or jump or cover my eyes during any horror movie.So, that being said, let's talk scary movies. Recently watched  Rewatched the OG Poltergeist recently. This movie is great in the beginning and then gets kind of slow in the middle for me. But then the ending is so balls to the wall crazy that it makes up for anything that was a bit of a drag. The movie is almost 2 hours long. I'd cut about 20 minutes off the middle for a super stellar watch. If satanic horror is your bit, I highly recommend The House of the Devil . It's definitely a slow burn, but the movie is only like 95 minutes long so if you're like me and have a short attention span, you should still be okay. There's a lot of tension and build up and it's just totally unsettling. Some nice satanic imagery and a relatable lead character too. I had heard so many good things about A Dark Song and I was disappointed when I saw it last week. It's just so repetitive and the ending is laughable. The final 10 minutes sincerely seem like a parody. I couldn't believe it was legitimately made and released. The movie has a good premise. It's about a woman who hires an occultist to perform a ritual that will summon her guardian angel so that she can speak to her dead child. It just didn't deliver well on the premise, in my opinion.Theatre screenings I don't see a lot of movies in theatre at all. I get distracted by people around me eating, talking, and checking their phones. It takes me out of the moment which is vital to the experience of viewing a horror movie. That being said, here are some recent ones from the past couple years that I braved the cinema to see.  Hereditary was straight up stressful to watch. I don't remember the last time a movie made me feel so much tension and anxiety. It was just absolutely suffocating for over 2 hours. Let me pause here and say that if you're someone who does not like horror movies, you may not know this, but-- all of these things are good things for a horror movie. Being able to draw a viewer in to the extent that they're physically and mentally stressed out is incredibly difficult. It's like a book making you cry. It's a good thing. It means you're invested. Hereditary was an amazing movie and I honestly never want to see it again. I also saw A Quiet Place in theatre and that's super ironic because the theatre is NOT. A. QUIET. PLACE. For those who don't know the premise of this movie, it's basically a dystopian where the post-apocalyptic world has monsters who have ultra-sensitive hearing the only way to survive is to live in complete silence at all times. I really should have waited for this one to come out on dvd. Not because it wasn't great, but because there were a lot of very quiet, tense scenes that were totally ruined by the audience talking and being loud. It definitely took me out of the moment and killed the tension more than once. This spring, I saw Us in theatre. It's the second horror movie from Jordan Peele, the first being the amazingly popular Get Out (which I also saw at the cinema). Us is very socio-political and I'm assuming all of his horror movies are going to be. I didn't like this one quite as much as Get Out, but I liked the political undertones more in this one. Looking forward to watching This fall should be pretty good for horror movies. Autumn is the season of terror after all, right?  I'll definitely see It Chapter Two on release day which is September 6th. I loved the novel, loved the 90s miniseries, and loved the 2017 remake. I really like the 80s revival thing that's going on in horror right now with Stranger Things and It. I think Bill Skarsgård makes a really good Pennywise too. I've been patiently waiting for Chapter Two since 2017. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was a three-part book series published from 1981-1991. You best believe that my terrified little self was reading these under the covers with a flashlight as a kid. The illustrations were straight up terrifying. I was so beyond excited when I heard they were making the series into a movie. I recently flipped through the first book in the series again and the illustrations still hold up. Doctor Sleep AKA The Shining 2 is coming out in November and I'm looking forward to it soooo much. Not only am I an Ewen McGregor fanboy (for whatever reason), but I also love the director, Mike Flanagan. I've actually not read the book by Stephen King because it just came out in 2013 and I kind of forgot about it, but it's definitely on my to-read list before November.All-time favorites This is the only category that's a little bit difficult for me. Are my all-time favorites just the ones that scared me the most? Are they the ones that I've watched the most times because they have a lot of rewatch value? Are they the classics that paved the way for more modern horror movies that I enjoy? The Shining is the first one that comes to mind, especially after thinking about Doctor Sleep. I love this movie so much for a very specific reason. When I initially saw it, I was terrified for Danny. Like, his dad was completely going psychotic, my own dad was pretty nuts. The thought of being trapped in a hotel in the middle of untraversable winter conditions for months just terrified me. I was already stuck in the middle of nowhere in my own house so it wasn't much of a stretch for my young mind.Then when I watched it in my late teens, I was terrified for Wendy. Shelley Duvall's character is just so entirely weak and helpless in this relationship with someone who is losing their mind. By then I'd been in relationships and just thought the idea of loving and relying on someone only to have them completely unravel was scary. It's like, what do you do when you're dependent on someone who spirals like that? And then I watched it in my early 20s and I was terrified for Jack. Jack Torrance's character is having nightmares, hallucinating, struggling with addiction, entirely unable to regulate his emotions, experiencing serious writer's block & cabin fever, and (if you've read the book) is dealing with the aftermath of an abusive childhood. Basically, the movie has something for everyone. And it's interesting to me that as I aged, I related to a different character every time I watched it. That alone makes it a superior horror movie in my eyes. More recently, 2014's The Babadook was devastatingly beautiful. The horror of the movie is that the monsters are things you cannot escape - mental illness, grief, loneliness. The mental breakdown and deterioration of the mother who is reeling from the violent death of her husband was almost too real, even for me. I have to put The Descent on the list for being one of the only horror movies to ever actually make me scream. This movie is just scary through and through. Should you be more afraid of the monsters or the humans? It has a couple really well-placed and tasteful jump scares that almost made me piss myself. Not recommended for those with claustrophobia. If I cut off your arms and cut off your legs Would you still love me anyway? |
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