Simple America

It is that time of the year again. Halloween. Tonight little goblins are going to invade the neighborhood and steal my candy stash. Vampires will want to suck down all my punch. Must remember to find my stakes before it gets dark.

Movies really make this a fun time of year. I’m talking about the scarey films. So as part of the Halloween craziness I would like to create a tag. This is just a list of flicks that scared the bejeebers out of you. What are your ten scariest days at the movies? And you can count television too. No limits!!!

1. Zombie movies. I think the zombie movie that scared me the most was one of the first. Night of the Living Dead frightened the heck out of me as a teen. Watching it late at night with lights out. Remember the little girl chowing down on her parents. What a shocker!
2. Vampire movies. There are so many vampire flicks. As a boy I loved the old Hammer flicks with Christopher Lee. But Stephen King wrote one of the best vampire tales ever, Salem’s Lot. The televsion adaption of this was well done. Really kept me on the edge of my seat and for more than one night, since this was a miniseries.
3. Halloween, the original movie, with Jamie Lee Curtis scared the heck out of me. I watched it when I was working at the DMZ in South Korea. We were on top of a mountain in the middle of no where, so it became even spookier. This movie scared me so bad I could not watch it again or any of the seqeuls.
4. Devil’s Rain is an old movie that I caught on television when I was in high school. This was damn eerie with Ernest Borgnine playing the devil. Would like to find this and see it again. Probably will look cheesy considering all of the passage of years and better technology. I remember the people melting under this devilish rain. Gives me the shivers still.
5. The Omen, original of course, scared me a lot too. I saw this in Germany during my first tour there. This film made you scared to look at photographs. It emitted an evil feeling that lured me on to the sequels that were also good creepy flicks.
6. Carrie is another Stephen King adaption and very well done. Really had some excellent actresses working this film with Amy Irving and Sissy Spacek. You can even catch a young John Travolta playing the dumb boyfriend. This is another film I saw in Germany. The ending is quite an eye opener too. It literally brought all of us to our feet with the shock of it. If you have not seen this one, FIND IT, WATCH IT!!! Do not leave the room until the credits roll.
7. Let me throw in another Stephen King tale. The Shining is a great haunted hotel story. Stephen Kubrick directed the original with Jack Nicholson, who plays a crazy man so well. His acting makes up for a lot of the old technology. They remade this movie as a television miniseries a few years back and it followed the book more closely. Both are good, but you have to see Jack Nicholson in this role.
8. The scariest movie in my high school days is The Exorcist. After we watched this film I could never eat pea soup again and I stayed away from Ouija boards too. So damn scarey and eeeeevil!!! This was a real head spinner of a movie.
9. In recent years I have not watched a lot of scarey movies. As a writer I don’t want to taint my idea pool. But I did watch The Ring and that really freaked me out. Makes you want to be very careful with what you watch on video.
10. There is one movie that scared me more than any other film. That movie is Alien. I remember the advertising slogan, “In space no one can hear you scream.” And the music they used really pushed you to the edge of your seat. The composer based it on a heart beat and I think my heart matched pace with it. When it was not stopping from fear that is. I so thought I was gonna die. The stupid thing about this flick, is I read the comic for this movie and I did not even realize it until I went back and read it again. I wish they had done a better job with the recent Aliens versus Predator. I read the books and they were so much better than that film. The alien creature is so scarey. Whenever I have a stomach ache I wonder if one of those critters is eating its way out of me. Eeeks!

Okay there is my list. I wish I would have done this sooner. But I did not. So I want to know about what movies scared:

1. Huei
2. Sila
3. Hisham  It will be interesting to compare brother and sister. 
4. Nicole
5. Hijack Queen

Happy Halloween everyone. Look out for the little goblins when you are driving tonight.

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