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rose_griffes) wrote2009-10-31 11:28 am
rose_griffes) wrote2009-10-31 11:28 am
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the zombies don't want my brain
It's Halloween!
HEEEEEE! I was two and a half. My mother says I wasn't throwing a fit--this was my idea of how to "properly" pose for a Halloween photo. (Why are my bangs so short? I can remember cutting my own bangs at one point, but I don't think that was until I was older.)
My personal favorite costume was when I was a teen. I took a large box, glued on some fabric as a table-cloth, then cut a hole in the top and glued on a cigar box that also had a hole in the bottom. Then I could put on the box and slide my hand through the hole, coming out the cigar box, rather like "Thing" on The Addams Family, but holding a treat bag. So the big box looked like a table with a cigar box perched on it. And why was I motivated to go to such lengths? Because I wanted candy, darn it, and I didn't want people to say I was too old to go trick-or-treating. I crouched down after I rang the doorbells. At least I had younger siblings with me, so maybe it didn't look completely ridiculous.
I don't have a problem with teens going trick-or-treating, as long as they have a costume. *grins*
I don't like gore in movies. Or lots of violence. And I tend to think of most paranormal stuff as being worthy of eye-rolling rather than fright. So I just don't watch the majority of scary movies. But I love suspense and scary moments. One of my favorites: Wait Until Dark has Audrey Hepburn playing a woman who's been blinded in an accident earlier. (How it happens is not a plot point--just the fact that she's blind now is what matters.) And there's a bad man with a knife in her apartment and she has to deal with him on her own and you think she's killed him and then he LEAPS OUT and I nearly always shriek out loud right then. Heh.
Oh, and the first Jurassic Park is a favorite scary movie. The others were far too gory for me.
The Ring scared me a lot, even though I thought it was ridiculous in the clear light of day. (Um, watching by myself in the dark was probably a bad plan. *laughs*)
I would rewatch Doctor Who's "Blink" today, but I saw it a month ago when I was in Utah. We made my friend's husband watch it. Excellent suspenseful episode of TV.
Trick-or-treat!
HEEEEEE! I was two and a half. My mother says I wasn't throwing a fit--this was my idea of how to "properly" pose for a Halloween photo. (Why are my bangs so short? I can remember cutting my own bangs at one point, but I don't think that was until I was older.)
My personal favorite costume was when I was a teen. I took a large box, glued on some fabric as a table-cloth, then cut a hole in the top and glued on a cigar box that also had a hole in the bottom. Then I could put on the box and slide my hand through the hole, coming out the cigar box, rather like "Thing" on The Addams Family, but holding a treat bag. So the big box looked like a table with a cigar box perched on it. And why was I motivated to go to such lengths? Because I wanted candy, darn it, and I didn't want people to say I was too old to go trick-or-treating. I crouched down after I rang the doorbells. At least I had younger siblings with me, so maybe it didn't look completely ridiculous.
I don't have a problem with teens going trick-or-treating, as long as they have a costume. *grins*
I don't like gore in movies. Or lots of violence. And I tend to think of most paranormal stuff as being worthy of eye-rolling rather than fright. So I just don't watch the majority of scary movies. But I love suspense and scary moments. One of my favorites: Wait Until Dark has Audrey Hepburn playing a woman who's been blinded in an accident earlier. (How it happens is not a plot point--just the fact that she's blind now is what matters.) And there's a bad man with a knife in her apartment and she has to deal with him on her own and you think she's killed him and then he LEAPS OUT and I nearly always shriek out loud right then. Heh.
Oh, and the first Jurassic Park is a favorite scary movie. The others were far too gory for me.
The Ring scared me a lot, even though I thought it was ridiculous in the clear light of day. (Um, watching by myself in the dark was probably a bad plan. *laughs*)
I would rewatch Doctor Who's "Blink" today, but I saw it a month ago when I was in Utah. We made my friend's husband watch it. Excellent suspenseful episode of TV.
Trick-or-treat!
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Don't just play random VHSs! I'm sure DVDs are okay, though.
Happy Halloween!
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And aw, you were such a cute little disquiet spirit. :):)
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I just don't watch scary movies. I'm not interested in being frightened, and suspense only works occasionally anyways. Which makes this time of year rather dull for me. ;-)
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We went for vaguely appropriate instead of actually scary and ended up watching Labyrinth for the pre-Halloween movie. Heh.
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Oooh, Labyrinth! I own that, maybe I'll pop that in the DVD player. (My younger self was quite impressed by David Bowie way back when. Hah!)