I had the bad fortune of growing up with an elder sister who loved horror movies, but the good fortune of having her to tell me about them and intellectualize them before I saw them. Long before "Scary movie" came along, I knew the golden rule that "Nothing's dead until you've shot it through the head" (except for in vampire and werewolf movies, which require silver bullets and stakes through the heart). The scariest movies for me are the ones with haunted houses because I have had weird things happpen to me in some houses in RL and the idea of a house that actually tells you to "GET OUT" is so totally freaky (and why didn't they just pack up and leave right then and there???) As a kid, Poltergeist gave me the worst scare because it was shot in my home town. The exterior of the house was a house on a classmate's street and the interior was the inside of my sister's best friend's house, so the environment was overly familiar. Unfortunately I was also permitted to go see the movie by my own-freakin'-self at the age of 10 which probably scarred me for life. I barely slept in my own bedroom again in the house we were living in at the time, because of the tree outside my window. On a lighter note, some of the local high-school kids managed to steal stuff off the set, so that corpses in coffins were popping up all over the local high school for awhile. But you know what really scares me? Real-life cruel, sadistic people. Sometimes I just have to take a break from the news and tell my husband that our kids are never walking home alone. EVER.
I think that having kids may change most people a little bit, in so far that suddenly you may become extra sensitive to the existence of actual real life creeps and sadists on a whole different level than if you're only worried about yourself and other adults in your life.
Awesome facts about Poltergeist, in spite of your youth trauma with it, I'm a little envious about the movie corpse-props at your high school!
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The scariest movies for me are the ones with haunted houses because I have had weird things happpen to me in some houses in RL and the idea of a house that actually tells you to "GET OUT" is so totally freaky (and why didn't they just pack up and leave right then and there???)
As a kid, Poltergeist gave me the worst scare because it was shot in my home town. The exterior of the house was a house on a classmate's street and the interior was the inside of my sister's best friend's house, so the environment was overly familiar. Unfortunately I was also permitted to go see the movie by my own-freakin'-self at the age of 10 which probably scarred me for life. I barely slept in my own bedroom again in the house we were living in at the time, because of the tree outside my window.
On a lighter note, some of the local high-school kids managed to steal stuff off the set, so that corpses in coffins were popping up all over the local high school for awhile.
But you know what really scares me? Real-life cruel, sadistic people. Sometimes I just have to take a break from the news and tell my husband that our kids are never walking home alone. EVER.
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Awesome facts about Poltergeist, in spite of your youth trauma with it, I'm a little envious about the movie corpse-props at your high school!