Spooked

Halloween is around the corner and you know what that means...

Scary movies.  And I hate scary movies. 

Let's be serious, you are talking to the girl who brought stuffed animals with her when she moved at the tender age of 23!

"Hereafter" is a recent new release as well as "Paranormal Activity 2."  God help me if I see the trailer to either one of those movies let alone the 6th installment of "Saw."  My thought process - paying moolaaahh to be scared out of my mind? - ummm, I'd rather buy a new top, dress, skirt, or shoes!  And some people would call me crazy. 

However, sometimes it doesn't even cost the movie ticket money to be scared.  Here are two examples that are much funnier now than at the time they occured. 

Tom and his family are movie aficionados - to say the very least.  They love movies, know tons of actors/actresses names, have seen movies that I legitimately have never heard of, and can even name directors and producers of hundreds of movies.  They play "the movie game" after dinner which includes naming movies and actors and actresses that played in them and then associating those actors and actresses with other movies.

And because they are polite, I am included in this game but I know that whatever team I am on, the other members are immediately (yet silently) so sad because I offer little to this game! :)  (It's kind of like the captain of the kickball team who picks the last kid standing and realizes that the team did not get any stronger by the final addition...). 

For every 20 movies they talk about, I think it is safe to say that I have heard of maybe 5 and have seen, at best, 2. 

During one game, Julia Roberts was brought up.  I said that I love her movies, especially "Pretty Woman."  Tom's parents asked me if I have ever seen "Sleeping with the Enemy."  I had never heard of this movie and they said that is such a good one!  As a matter of fact (and as luck would have it), they had it on DVD.  I asked that if it is a scary movie.  I also said my worst fear is being kidnapped or chased by someone.  They said they hadn't seen the movie in quite some time but they said that they didn't think it was too scary.

After about 30 minutes into the movie - I think I about peed my pants.  It was so scary!!!  Okay, maybe suspenseful is a better word but I watched from minutes 30-60 through my fingers and then decided that it would be better for me to just go to bed.  I probably should have used better context clues given the name of the movie... HA. 

ANYWAY, when Tom came up later to say goodnight to me, (because he is a normal adult who can watch suspenseful movies and not retract back to a 5 year old) started laughing when he opened the door.  I had the light on.  He tried to turn it off and I nearly had another heart attack. 

So I slept with the light on. 

Again, I'm 23.  Oh, and I may or may not have been holding on for dear life to the stuffed animal that I had given Tom after our trip to Disney World last Thanksgiving.   

Fast forward a couple of weeks to another dinner around Tom's table where the movie game ensued.  Somehow or another a movie called, "Malice," was brought up.  His Dad had just recently got it on DVD.  So that became the movie of choice for the evening.  Again, I asked - "Is this movie scary?  Do we all remember what happened last time?"  Again the answer was that they had not seen it in a while and they didn't remember it to be too scary.

Scene 1: A young girl gets kidnapped.

I nearly died.  Then I couldn't help but laugh that we were now 2-for-2! 

The night then went like this:  I, with my eyes closed and pretty much saying every prayer I know over and over again, helped Tom to lose the circulation in his arm as I squeezed it every time I thought I heard something scary, until - by the grace of God - I fell asleep on the couch.   

Which again, now, it is much funnier now to think about how scared I can get over the course of a 2 hour movie. 

Moral of the story?  Scary movies and I do not mix well.

My Dad used to call me CutieKat but I think we all can agree that for the month of October - I might be better known as - ScaredyKat.