Monday, February 19, 2007
Current mood: anxious
I'm watching Saw II.
Okay, so I wanted to watch this movie... it always seems like a good idea at the time, but it doesn't take long for that feeling to wear off.
I've been fascinated with watching scary movies since I was maybe eight or younger. I can remember watching The Omen, and some other more standard flicks like Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Mummy. The Omen might of been a surprise to my parents, but they knew about the others, in fact they'd watch them with me. But I remember watching the Omen one night when they were out and I distinctly remember painting one or two of my matchbox cars with moms nail polish while I watched the movie. Funny thing to remember huh? The car thing that's besides the point though. I think about it now and I'm not sure now how I pulled off watching the Omen. Just like now I can't remember where I ditched the brussel sprouts at dinner? We didn't have a dog? Anyway...
So why the fascination with scary movies? I have yet to figure that out.
Watching the Freddy Kreuger movies, and Michael and Jason that's nothing, while they have their creepy moments Jason and Freddy Kreuger can't happen. At least in my world that can't happen I don't know about the rest of you. But the Omen and Damien, he gives a good case of the creeps and Michael, well there could be insane serial killers out there but somehow that only gives a good chill. Have to admit though can't really sit through watching pin head, haven't tried to watch those Wes Craven shows in a long time though so who knows maybe it had something to do with the beverages?
The need for goosebumps and chills moved beyond the small and big screen for me though when I was in jr high, high school and college. That's when I started going to haunted houses, not like the kind you find at Disneyland, or the creepy dingy boarded up cob-web covered kind on the outskirts of town but the ones that pop up at Halloween. The kind where they may tell you our ghouls won't touch you if you don't touch them. I've been to a few good haunted houses.
Here's my rundown of the top three: First place goes to - the haunted house on Hawthorne Rd in Pocatello. Some club took over an old abandoned house (okay so it was creepy, dingy and cob-web covered) and made it up. Their first year was really the only good year though their 'ghouls' were in makeup not plastic masks. They had the standard vampire in a coffin, a bowl full of eyeballs (those are grapes by the way) but when you went upstairs the show took a turn - they had the "lost boys vampires" rigged on springs they literally sprang out at you like they were flying and right when you thought they'd snatch you up they snapped back to their hiding spots near the ceiling in the corners of the room. There was a great mad scientist room with a cadaver (supposedly) on the table and darn hunting season all to you know what because those guts were way too real! From there to pass through the rest of the house you had to go through a maze, it was the best I've ever been in. The walls were painted black they had taken most of the upstairs and made narrow winding corridors it was pitch black and at times you had to step up or down and sometimes walk on something squishy (I think it was a worn out mattress) but that maze was something. At the end of the maze though you headed back downstairs and out of the house through the kitchen. You could hear what you'd face next, the crazy guy with the chain saw. No matter how rational I might of been before that when that chain saw started up I was out of the house and in the parking lot like a flash. The guy with the chain saw now he scares me.; Second place goes to a haunted house that was held in an old warehouse in Pocatello, I don't know if they held it more than one year. Whoever put it together had room after room of props, most of the ghouls were in masks (that never does it for me on the scare factor) I think one of the guys who helped put this together was headed for the big time doing movie FX. They had replicas of the aliens masks on display and predator, those stick out in my memory. Walking through this haunted house was fun though. The shocking part was the walk out... it seemed normal enough but you were walking up a loading dock ramp, that was the exit. I was still expecting a shock at some point though so I was walking near what I thought was a wall. Ha, silly me they had put up fake walls. The walls were just thin slats of wood and they were spaced with big gaps between them. So if you went near the walls fingers would reach out and grab you. Like I said I was near the wall and things go a little fuzzy at that point, but I know I freaked and I'm pretty sure one of their ghouls was lurking nearby. So after the fingers in the walls reaching out to touch someone, I recall punching the nearest ghoul square in the face, probably a good thing he had on some big foam rubber mask. And then again with the gone like a flash thing, and I'm in the parking lot.; Third place goes to a sick and twisted haunted house put on by one of the fraternities at ISU while I was a college student. Some guy I knew invited me and some friends to their haunted house. We went to check it out it was really kind of retarded a bunch of drunk college guys trying to look scary and whatnot, the only reason they rated third place was because of the mad scientist space. Once again ick, hunting season strikes again, there was blood and guts galore and it stunk to high heaven I can't imagine being them when it was time to clean-up. Ewww.
So why am I writing this? Why do some people like myself feel the need for that jolt, the scare, the hair crawling sensation with the chill down the spine? Really, why?
So I'm waiting for your explanations, your comments and what not.
Gotta run now though the movies paused (I was watching it in the background but the phone rang), James has gone to sleep and now I want to see what happens to these people and who makes it out.
So as always see you later allig8tors.
p.s. This is on Showtime on Demand, but MS doesn't offer that choice so I put DVD. After this I'll be waiting to see Saw III, I've read a little about the second and third movies in this series on the web and I'm pretty sure I'll need to see the third show. So back to the second and here's hoping I can sleep tonight.
oh and another p.s. I'm not so into the whole haunted house thing anymore... I could of seen so many and some with reputations that far precede them, if your interested there used to be one in Salt Lake City that was held in an asylum. I had my doubts about that being true but I heard ads for it on the radio when I was visiting friends in the valley. There are also several in the Metro Atlanta area that are held in large buildings in industrial parks or old warehouse areas.
Currently watching : Saw II
