My Scary Movies

It’s Halloween time, and that means my husband is trying to get me to watch scary movies. I’m not sure what my relationship is with scary movies. I don’t particularly love them, but I can’t make a blanket statement that I hate them, either. In truth, I don’t like very many movies at all. Scary or not, movies rarely get a good review from me. 

However, that wasn’t always the case. In my younger years, I loved movies. Scotty and I used to go see everything in the theater. Everything! It was probably childbirth that ruined me.

Anyway, as a teen, I was obsessed with Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, and I watched them on the regular. For some reason, I had no qualms over watching those R movies, but I never delved into Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, or Texas Chainsaw Massacre… and the only Michael Myers I ever knew was this one…

Anyway, like I said, Scotty wants me to watch scary movies with him every Halloween, and I never do. I think I'm becoming less and less the woman of his dreams, poor thing. So this year, I determined the three scary movies I am willing to watch. These are three I actually like:

And, for the sake of personal research, I am also willing to watch:

The Sixth Sense because it's been over 20 years since I've seen it, and when it first came out, I genuinely liked it. You guys, I seriously didn't know Bruce Willis was dead (also, I feel like that's a spoiler I don't need to be accountable for. I normally firmly believe in "no spoilers," but there are some exceptions. Like, you should just know that Romeo and Juliet die and that Bruce Willis is dead and that Darth Vader is Luke's father).

Signs I didn't like. But it's been nearly 20 years since I saw it, too, and I'm willing to watch it again... even though it has creatures. 

So, when Scotty comes begging to watch a scary movie, here's what he has to work with. That should get us through the next five years or more. 

The last time I agreed to watch a scary movie with Scotty, he picked it. 

It's been at least five years, and I'm still suffering from the memory of it. This movie is so bad. So very bad.