If you take the badgers to the movies…
They’re going to want popcorn (with Hot Tamales, thank you)…
…the closer the blue planet Melancholia comes to earth on a collision course, the more the just-married sister falls apart, and her depressed sister regains her peace and equilibrium…the dread in the film builds as the characters take turns using a wire loop to measure the increasing diameter of the approaching planet. This isn’t a traditional horror film, but it scared the heck out of me…
…I watched Chuckie when I was a kid and didn’t watch a movie scarier than that Halloween movie with Bette Midler for YEARS.
The original Psycho with Anthony Perkins scared me so badly, for a long time after, I wouldn’t take a shower if I was in the house alone. Good thing we also had a bathtub, or I would have been scaring a lot of people myself.
But…bathtubs, tablecloths, eyeballs, Diabolique… NOPE…
But House…House is like…crack on fire…with flooding and glitter…
And then I watched The Ring and couldn’t watch anything even remotely scary for years…
…OH MY GOD GUYS I AM SO BAD AT SCARY MOVIES…
The French film Martyrs is the first one I thought of. Totally brutal and disturbing and strangely beautiful. I want to watch it again, but I can’t quite work myself up to it…
…I thought about Martyrs, then thought that might be….way too much. It’s one of my That Was a Really Good Movie But I’ll Never See It Again movies…
Eyes Without a Face — also file under “strangely beautiful,” all those dogs in the kennel…
The Shining…or Alien, though I haven’t seen that for eleventy billion years…
(Home Alone, because tarantula –why would anyone agree to let it crawl on their FACE?)
…seeing Chuckie as a kid is enough to terrify anybody…
I will probably pick The Congo because I was too young when I saw that…
…did you want a horror movie? I can name an actual horror movie…
Oh, heck no–doesn’t have to be straight up horror. I mean, even Gravity is scary on some level, right?
Gravity scared the hell out of me…
…the 1989 Woman In Black done for British TV. It’s the only movie that’s ever made me yell and hide my eyes as an adult, watching it…
House of Leaves was pretty freaky tho…
Fantastic bunch of movies. So happy to see Diabolique and Eyes Without a Face getting some much deserved love. And Hausu! Ahhhh, this is the best time of year.