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I’ve always enjoyed being scared. Maybe this is why Halloween is one of my favorite holidays – because it’s an excuse to scare the living bejesus out of myself. Then again, I don’t need a holiday to do that.
Being scared is an exhilarating experience, as long as it doesn’t get too real. For a short time, I experimented with “ghost-hunting.” I’d take my camera and go to creepy-ass cemeteries at night and just stand around taking pictures. One time I got what appeared to be an “orb” in one of my pictures, and I got freaked out and drove home, fast. Upon further inspection, it was a dust particle. I never heard the end of that one. Anyway, that was the end of my short-lived career as an amateur paranormal investigator.
My flirtation with ghost-hunting aside, I tend to keep the scary stuff on the screen. Here's a little known fact about Chrislove: I'm a huge horror movie buff. I know, you’d think a queen like me would be more into Mamma Mia and Burlesque, but truth be told, there’s nothing I love more than a good horror movie. I like everything from paranormal thrillers to blood-and-gore-fests to the even more sick and twisted (Human Centipede anyone? Freaking awesome!). Anything that freaks me out.
Of course, nowadays, nobody will watch horror movies with me. Most of my friends are just wimps. So now if I want to freak myself out, I have to do it alone. And, now that I live in an apartment by myself, suddenly I’m a little more hesitant to watch horror movies. I can hear everything that goes on in the apartments next to and above me, and it’s not very fun hearing random noises in the middle of the night after you just watched Paranormal Activity 3. But I still watch horror movies. Not to mention, I’ve really gotten into that new show American Horror Story (if that show doesn’t freak the hell out of you, nothing will). I can’t help myself. I know what the result will be – waking up when somebody slides a chair across the floor upstairs and frantically looking around the room for a demonic entity or the Blair Witch or something – but I insist on torturing myself like that. Maybe I subconsciously like lying awake at night, eyes darting about the room, and jumping at every last noise from neighboring apartments. Maybe the post-movie fear is part of the fun.
And tonight is Halloween Night. You can bet I’ll be reaching into my collection of horror DVDs and watching one before bed. I’m as predictable as I am stupid.
In honor of Halloween Night, here are some of my favorite scenes from some of my all-time favorite horror flicks. If you scare easily, you might want to skip ahead!
First, a recent one, but one that quickly made it to my top-5 list of best horror movies ever: Insidious. This has to be the freakiest scene. I showed this one to my 11-year-old nephew because I'm a mean person like that.
I don't care what anybody says, I love Paranormal Activity. All three of them (although they've gotten progressively better). Here's a good scene from the first one.
Here's a classic: Stephen King's It. Coulrophobes beware. One of my favorite lines from a horror movie: "Oh yes, they float, Georgie...they float!"
When I was a little kid, all I wanted in the whole world was to watch Child's Play. But my parents wouldn't hear of it. Probably not bad parenting, because even as an adult, something about Chucky freaks me out.
And of course, it wouldn't be Halloween without a scene from The Exorcist. It's old, but timeless! And I have a feeling this is what life is like behind the scenes with Michele Bachmann.
What are your favorite horror movies?
Now, On To The Top Comments!
A special thanks to this week's Top Comments contributors!
vacantlook sent us this funny, yet depressing comment by Kamakhya, posted in Hunter's diary on the House's sad order of priorities.
From brillig:
Ministry of Truth ran into Senator McCain in the airport and asked a question. With a single comment header, DCBlue left not one but five people making great comment noises. So on behalf of The Swimmer, blue aardvark, glitterscale, SouthernLiberalinMD and msmacgyver, here it is :)
And from yours truly, Chrislove:
I LOL'd at this comment by Troubador, which was in response to MinistryOfTruth's rather bizarre encounter with John McCain in an airport.
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Thanks for reading, y'all! Have a verrrrrrrry scarrrrrrrrry Halloween! * insert corny Halloween "MUHAHAHAHA" here *
If you're scared now, just do what I do. Sleep in the middle of a circle of salt. See you next time!