Seriously Scary

What is it about being scared that we like so much? The adrenaline? The power of confronting our worst nightmares from the safety of our couches?  Or just the same thrill you get when you're a kid and someone dares you to look into a mirror and chant, "Bloody Mary" three times?

Personally, for me, I love the suspense of it all. I like being made to jump when I don't know it's coming, much more than I like guts and gore. Below are a combination of movies that made me jump and movies that scarred me for life. haha.

Exorcist. This one definitely falls into the scarring me for life category. If you've never watched the Exorcist uncut, do yourself a favor and keep it that way. Seriously disturbing. I had to choose this picture because it was the least creepy and I didn't even want to look at the others.

Silence of the Lambs. This fell more into the category of making me jump, although Hannibal Lecter is definitely one of the creepiest characters ever.

Saw. Too much blood for me. Scarring.

Disturbia. One of my favorite movies. Plenty of lighthearted moments, but also tons of times that had me jumping.

Nightmare on Elm Street. I know tons of people aren't scared by these at all, but the concept of  a deranged killer who could get to you in your sleep--thereby making it impossible to avoid him--always scared the living crap out of me.

Psycho. This one made by the master of suspense, which makes it easy to guess which category it falls into. But I'm still a little scarred as well. :)

So, which category do you prefer? Suspenseful horror or scares-the-crap-out-of-you-in-traumatic-ways horror? Any faves I didn't name?

D is for Death Scenes.

A to Z CHALLENGE...Letter D

Today I’m focusing only on film. I recently went to the movies and saw Olympus Has Fallen. Not a bad action flick, but the hero, Gerard Butler, told the villain that he’d stab him in the brain when he caught him… *Spoiler*

…He did.

The audience applauded. I’ve been to movies were the audience clapped, cheered, or jeered, but this didn’t seem the type of movie or the type of audience to have that reaction. So it got me thinking about death scenes and the reactions they draw from us.

Did Janet Leigh getting knifed in Psycho scare you so much that you stayed out of the shower? I have a see-through shower curtain because of that movie.

Did every ridiculous death in The Happening annoy you so much you wanted those 2 hours of your life back? I mean, a man just laid out in front of a lawn mower because the wind made him crazy!

  

Was King Leonidas’ death in 300 momentous? Were you proud that he stood his ground and died for his lands?

  

Were you heartbroken at the end of Moulin Rouge when Satine dies in Christian's arms while the final strains of their love song plays in the background?

Or did you go out cheering because Bill “The Butcher” Cutting finally got his in Gangs of New York?

Vote for the most memorable death scene in the comments. And no worries, if you haven’t seen any of these films, tell us about one that stuck with you and why!