I do not like scary movies. In fact, I stay away from them at all costs. When my friends decide to go out on a friday night to see a scary movie, I choose to stay at home, rather than go out with my friends. Watching re-runs on tv, while folding my laundry, is better than going to a dark movie theatre and watching a scary movie. I do not find a point to spending my hard earned babysitting and sculpture teaching money on giving myself nightmares for god knows how long. It is like the parenting elective class in High School, which requires all students to take home a screaming baby of doom for a few days. Why knowingly sign up for a class that I know will result in little to no sleep? Or in the case of scary movies, why torture myself on purpose?
I have only seen tops maybe three films that would be considered scary (well at least to me, I'm sure there are some people who will think I am a complete chicken after reading my list, but I am fine with that!). The first scary movie I can remember seeing was the Sixth Sense. I saw this movie when I was in seventh grade. My best friend and I decided to watch it during a sleepover at my house. It must have been 12 am when we started watching it, so I wasn't really a fully functional twelve year old when I was watching it. I haven't watched it since that day, but I can remember clearly the scene when the little boy is in his bedroom seeing dead people. That scene alone stuck with me all these years...I think it was becasue I have a little brother (he isn't really so little now, he is 13) who was around the age of the boy in the movie and so it hit home. It really isn't the scariest moment in the film, so I am not sure why it stuck with me...maybe it is becasue it is the only non-scary part?
The second scary movie I saw is The Ring. I saw it right after it came out on dvd... in my best friend's dark den during a thunderstorm. Smart for someone who doesn't like scary movies, right? Once again my best friend and I started watching it during the wee hours of the morning. I had ate at least two bags of pixie stix, sour patch kids and god only knows what else! Needless to say, we had a lot of sugar that night! Maybe that is why I agreed to watching a scary movie in the first place! Anyways, I remember that the movie keep stopping and going back to the main menu, and I joked that the Ring girl didn't want me watching her movie, but my best friend eventually got the movie to play from start to finnish...unfortunately for me. During the entire film i had my eyes covered by my hands... I was terrified, but refused to show my best friend that I was. I promised I would watch the entire thing, so i did through my hands on my eyes. I wanted to keep my promise so badly that I tortured myself with the most gross movie I had ever seen! However, I did survive the entire movie and when it was finally over, I picked a comedy to watch and wash my mind of all the images from The Ring. It must have worked becasue I don't remember having any bad dreams. But I have not seen that movie since, nor will I ever want to!
Disturbia is the last scary movie I can recall watching. Before watching the movie with my ex-boyfriend, I had my parents watch it first. I had to know it was safe to watch! After my mom watched it, she told me it wasn't too scary and that I could totally handle it! She was right... I did handle it fine. But was it simply because my boyfriend of the time was sitting next to me and I didn't want to show him I was scared? I am a strong feminst and I remember wanting to prove that girls were strong and we don't all scream girly when something scares us. I remember being disturbed but I knew my mom would never of told me it was safe to watch if it ended badly, so I bravely kept watching the movie. What I can't understand though is why/how people can enjoy watching complete mutilations. Even if they are acted and even if these films serve as a rush of excitement, why can't someone enjoy a good action film instead?
Even though I can not watch scary movies happily, I can watch the tv shows Bones and Ghost Whisperer. Bones is a crime solving show that displays extremely mutilated bodies at the beggining of the show. Gorey things creep me out (one of the reasons to stay away from scary movies), but yet I have no problem watching the show. I think I enjoy the show because of the potential love story between the two main characters. Love stories are my favorite type of movie to watch! Ghost Whisperer depicts its main character as a woman who can see and talk to ghosts. She helps them cross over "into the light" and along the way faces many perils. The peril in scary movies is another factor that keeps me away from them. Getting/being scared is by no means a form of entertainment to me. But I know from watching Ghost Whisperer that every show ends happily and so I keep watching for the happy ending.
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It's so funny that you considered Disturbia to be a horror movie, because I loved it and would never consider it that! I guess it's a difference in tastes, because I do enjoy scary movies. I especially liked The Ring; even though it was terrifying like you said, I couldn't stop watching it! I think it's interesting that you liked the movies that turned out happily. :)
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