I’ll admit it, I’m not like most girls.
Wanna take me to a movie? Make sure it has some good car chases and things that blow up. Wanna curl up on the couch with me and watch some Netflix? Better tune into the thriller/suspense/psychologically-messes-with-you-from-the-first-scene section. Wanna make me swoon? Bring over a zip drive loaded with your favorite slasher flicks, some popcorn, lemonade and maybe some JuJuBees.
Wanna go see a Rom Com?
Ask your sister.
No, instead of wanting to watch some dork sweep a girl off of her feet by somehow deciding not to date her best friend, I want to see something that really moves me.
I want to see a good horror flick. Or a good thriller. Or a good adventure flick. Heck, there are even a few Tom Cruise movies that I almost don’t hate with a passion.
But my favorite, my absolute favorite, is a good scary movie.
If I’m cringing under my blanket, barely peeking out between my fingers, I’m in heaven. It’s kinda like riding a roller coaster – you know you’re safe, but it scares the crap out of you anyway and gets your adrenaline pumping and your heart thumping. There’s nothing like it.
Periodically, Max and I will curl up on the couch on a Sunday afternoon and experiment with some new scary movie we’ve heard of, or one he’s never watched. With some popcorn and a blanket, it’s an afternoon made for this Mama.
This all started last year when we got this light-up sign for Halloween that said “Bates Motel – No Vacancy,” but the “No” part wouldn’t light up. Max insisted it was broken.
So, of course, you know, in true Uber Weird Mom fashion, I had him sit down with me on the couch and watch the original “Psycho.”
I’m sure it didn’t result in any permanent psychological scarring.
It was in black and white after all, which is about as scary to them as Tom and Jerry cartoons.
Still, since then, we’ve watched “Silence of the Lambs,” “The Babadook,” “Scream,” “Children of the Corn,” and “The Sixth Sense.”
I did the same thing with his older brother Mason too. Of course, those were more B-movies that we watched and laughed at, late at night after everyone else had gone to bed. We got through at least three of the Godzilla franchise movies, “Lake Placid” (1 and 2), “Piranha” (in 3D), “Jaws” and any number of really awful creature vs. creature flicks.
Think Dinocroc vs. Supergator… yeah… we made our own little Mystery Science Theater:3000 in the living room on those.
I consider this doing my part to enhance their cultural education.
This year, however, I’m doing something different. Instead of just binge watching scary movies from October 23 to Halloween, I think I’m going to count down the days to Trick or Treat with a movie or five a day. I’m thinking it will be my own personal Halloween Advent Calendar.
With the help of some trusted friends, and a few online lists, I’ve compiled a list of scary movies to watch everyday this month.
Hopefully, on November 1, my hair won’t be white, and my waistline won’t look like I’ve swallowed a pumpkin whole.
Because there are so many good ones to watch, I’ve added a few theme days on Sundays so I can fit them all in. And I’ve tried to avoid the ones I’ve either already seen.
See one or two you like? Let me know when you watch them what you think, and I’ll try to do the same.
I think it’s going to be a killer month… Get it? “Killer” month???
Jeez. Some days I just slay me…
- Halloween
- Oculus
- Human Centipede
Classic Movie Weekend – Nosferatu, Cat People, Ghost Story (Fred Astaire), Creature from the Black Lagoon, Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things- You’re Next
- Eyes without a Face
- Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
- Creep
- Monkey Shines
- The Uninvited
- House movie weekend – House, House on Haunted Hill, Haunting of Hill House, House of the Devil, House with laughing windows
- The Strangers
- Sleepaway Camp
- Maniac
- Madman
- Event Horizon
American Psycho- Surreal weekend – Jacob’s Ladder, Inception, Angel Heart, the Changling, A Tale of two Sisters
- Repulsion
- The Innocents
- Suspiria
- The Haunting (1969)
- The Sentinal
Rob Zombie’s Halloween- Modern Classics – Exorcist, The Omen, Alien, Chucky, Salem’s Lot
- The Host (Korean version)
- Severance
- Black Death
- Starry Eyes
- Scarecrows
- Halloween H20
Stay Creepy!!
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