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[catslash]

"Now lemme ask you this, son: what are you doing with a cellular telephone?"

Isn't it amazing how badly a movie can be dated within a decade? Scream could never work now. While the killer was busy taunting you on the landline, you could just call the police on your cell.

Also, why do the two movies that freaked me out longterm (yes, teenage me was too much of a wimp to handle Scream, shut up) revolve around telephones? I'm not sure what I want to hear less when I answer a call (or which one is more of a cliche now, for that matter):

"What's your favorite scary movie?"

or

"Seven days."

. . . DON'T ANY OF YOU BE GETTING ANY IDEAS NOW. I practically needed therapy after I saw The Ring. It's embarrassing in retrospect how long THAT movie fucked me up. My scare threshold has always been pretty pathetic (it's just recently that I've stopped being jumpy for weeks after seeing a scary movie), but The Ring messed with me like no other movie ever has. I'll admit to some curiosity as to how scary I'd find it now, but I'm not curious enough to find out. Maybe once it's also a decade and change old and completely dated in some then-unforeseen way.

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[all-ahoo.livejournal.com]

Dude, I am so with you. Scary movies scare me to an embarrassing degree. For months after I saw The Ring, I would randomly get the image of the fucked up dead girl in the closet popping into my head when I was trying to sleep and then lay awake all night praying that I didn't hear the TV white noise starting up...

[catslash.livejournal.com]

I think the only reason I did not end up afraid of my television is because my primary space is my bedroom, and more often than not my TV is facing my bed. So, I suspect that some level of my brain stepped in and intervened so that I would not actually go insane.

I went with a group to that movie, and just covered my eyes for the last ten minutes. I did not and never have seen Samara crawl out of the TV, and I am totally okay with that.

[caruso.livejournal.com]

Man, I loved Scream because it was a parody / love letter of all the horror movies that came before it. I always thought that was kind of cool. Plus Jay and Silent Bob had a cameo in Scream 3, and that made the whole series worth it for me.

*pets your teenaged self*

[catslash.livejournal.com]

I suspect the only reason I could handle it at all was because of the humor. I did like the series, it just scared me more than it really should have.

[caruso.livejournal.com]

It's kind of funny, Scream probably should have scared me more than it actually did, since I'm a chickenshit when it comes to scary movies.

(And yet I'm still dragging my mom out to see My Bloody Valentine . . . What a disaster that's going to be. Oh, the things I do for Jensen Ackles.)

[doihearawaltz.livejournal.com]

Oh, my GOD. I am so bad with scary movies. Like, the scene at the beginning of The Dark Crystal where that one creature disintegrated when it died, it gave me nightmares for a week when I was little. D: True story. I can handle stuff like Shaun of the Dead, but, really? So, so, so bad at horror films.

[appleredhair.livejournal.com]

Ha! My dad and I rented Scream when I was in high school and literally ate our way through the entire movie. We giggled wildly and stuffed our faces first with Chinese food, then with popcorn, then with ice cream...bloody/gory shit doesn't weird me out at all. The Ring and The Grudge and stuff like that? No effect other than a few shrieks when something pops up.

My biggest freak-out buttons to be pushed? Ghosts Sixth Sense style and zombies. I can't even watch Shaun of the Dead unless it's daytime and someone else is home.