Okay, so I'm trying to make myself a better person. Push my limits so to speak. And one of those things was to face things that used to scare me. One thing I did maybe a year ago (I can't remember the time exactly) was watch Michca Bartons scene from 'The Sixth Sense.' And yesterday (and today) I've decided to watch 'Chucky', 'Child's Play' to be more specific. Chucky was something that scared me. I've never watched one before (with the exception of the end of Bride of...and that gave me weird nightmarish dreams). But when I saw it on my friends Netflixs I had to check it out. But I don't find it scary. Is that me? Isn't this movie supposed to be some terrifying thing. And yes, the doll does give me the creeps, but so far (and I'm a little bit more then half way through), I don't find it that scary.
Maybe it gets scarier as it goes. I don't know, some movies to take a lot before they get going. I guess I've been expecting that iconic Chucky voice and have yet to see it. Okay, never mind, there it is. Hmmm...reminds me of Danny Devito.
Oh....and was I also the only one to go 'IT'S THE MOM FROM SEVENTH HEAVEN!" lol
I wouldn't know. Slashers have never been my thing since I watched the last half of Scream 2 when I was... 12. It was pretty traumatizing. Might watch it again to face my fears but honestly, it's not on my list of priorities. Also, I've never seen 7th Heaven.
ReplyDeleteBut I will say, the older I get, I get more used to the idea that I may not only watch slasher movies but maybe enjoy them. I've just never been a fan of gore.
No, its not just you.
ReplyDeletePerhaps its because you're grown up and it takes a lot more for a movie to scare you than it did as a child. When I was a kid some movies and certain TV shows could give me the creeps and cause me to have trouble sleeping at night, sometimes for months if it scared me the right way. Now when I watch them again my reaction ranges from being entertained if its good to laughing if its cheaply made to sometimes even being bored if its just lame. It just doesn't affect me like it used to.
What scares me? Reality scares me. I've reached a point where fiction doesn't scare me anymore, it doesn't even come close. The only movies and TV shows that can scare me now are true stories and documentaries about real events or possible scenarios that can make me think “Fuck, this could actually happen.” Fictional puppets don't do it for me anymore but for example something like a realistic depiction of what the world may look like after a nuclear war has made me lose sleep in recent years.