Sunday, October 27, 2019

Scare me - I LOVE IT!! by Peggy Jaeger


There are really only two things I love about Halloween: the candy and the scary movies.
The candy doesn't need an explanation, I mean, come on: Candy corn, Peppermint Patties?
Paleeze!

The fact that I like scary movies – and the scarier the better - is one of the top 10 things you need to know about me that I have listed on my blog bio. And when I say scary, I’m not talking about all the blood and gore crap and the torture porn that passes as scary these days. Movies like Saw, versions 1-10,000,000 and the Texas Chain Saw massacre franchise. Those movies are meant to shock you, not really scare you.

When I say scary I mean those movies that make you drop down into your seat at the movie theater, pull your legs up to your chest, make you heart pound, your ears ring, and make you cover your eyes with fingers you can peek through because you just know something’s gonna happen. You know it; you feel it; you sense it. Your adrenaline goes haywire; your hormones kick in with either a flight or fight or paralyze reaction; a scream gets lodged in the back of your throat, or alternately, pierces the air around you like an air raid warning. Your lips tingle, your toes wiggle and you can’t keep still in your seat.

I love those reactions!!

When I was a kid and my parents worked late into the evening, I was usually alone in our apartment. Back then there was a station on regular TV ( no cable back then, kids!) called CREATURE FEATURES that played nightly. I watched that damn channel every single night, alone in our apartment, a blanket pulled up over me and every single light in the house on full blast. My mother could never understand why our electric bills were so high.

My scary movie watching wasn’t only relegated to old black and white movies of the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s though, with Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Lon Chaney. Every weekend I took my meager allowance money and went to the actual movies, which cost $0.75 for a Saturday matinee.  Lord, I loved those days and those movies. Nothing really compares nowadays for plot, star power, or scare factor for me.

Some of my favorite scary movies of all time, the ones I can watch over and over again and really enjoy, run the gamut from sublimely scary to ridiculously uproarious.

In the scary scary group, I’ve got:

Halloween (the first one only. The rest were just dumb)


The Exorcist (I went to church every day for two months after seeing this the first time! – I was 11)
Scream (One of the best beginnings of any scary movie out there! The rest of the franchise wasn't scary.)

In the fun and funny group, I’ve got:

Practical Magic ( love Sandra Bullock!)
Young Frankenstein (I-gor not ee-gor)
Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein ( I went my pants every single time when Costello tries to tell Abbot about Dracula!)
It’s the great pumpkin Charlie Brown ( Because it’s Charlie Brown)
Hocus Pocus ( Bette Midler is a superstar and Kathy Najimi flying on a Hoover is side splitting).


So, want to be my BFF? Go to a scary movie with me and watch the whole thing. Heehee
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SEE YOU AT THE MOVIES!!!
Until next time ~ Peg


26 comments:

  1. Hey, I watched Creature Feature. On Fridays I used to go to my best friend's house and stay over. They were night owls so it was normal to be up late. Those movies scared me so much, I had to sit right beside my friend while we watched. I was still scared but sure we were having the best time. Would never have thought of turning off the TV or going to bed..

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  2. I LOVE scary movies, Peggy! And I was a huge fan of Creature Feature growing up! I'm with you on the scary vs. gory. A couple of modern scare favorites - I guess you'd call them Gothic Horror - are Crimson Peak and The Woman In Black. I also never turn off Dracula with Frank Langella, Lost Boys, Salem's Lot, Fright Night (1) and Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp. I think I have a vamp thing going! LOL Happy Halloween!

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    1. OMG FRANK LANGELLA!!!!! the best Dracula EVAH!!!!!!

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  3. I don't do scary movies! At All! Call me a wimp but the few I've seen leave me with nightmares for YEARS! Not my idea of fun. Can I still be your best friend??

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  4. I cannot not watch Tremors if it’s on. I love that ovie and those giant worms in the desert.

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    1. OOOO> I like that one too . It;s scary and campy.

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  5. The first time I watched a scary movie, it was Damien and I was terrified. Even the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz still gives me nightmares.

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    1. OMG< OZ is like, my favorite movie next to gone with the wind of all time!!! It's funny, but i never look at it as scary - just campy!

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  6. Wizard of Oz is about as scary as I'll watch. I prefer sunshine and HEA. Guess that's why I love romance.

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  7. YOu're with Jennifer above!!! hahaha..

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  8. See you at the movies, but I'll be at the musical next door. Want to meet for coffee after? :-)

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  9. The most scariest movie for me was the original IT! I love Hocus Pocus, but I don't watch really scary movies anymore.
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    1. The original IT was amazeballs!!! I can't wait to see part ii when it releases on video!

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  10. I love Practical Magic and Young Frankenstein. I watch Practical Magic and Arsenic and Old Lace (which was a spoof scary movie by Hitchcock himself) each Halloween. I just watched It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown tonight while I worked I think the psychological movies are so much better. Don't care for gore. And the Exorcist scared the fool out of me when I was a kid! I watched The Shining at midnight on Halloween night in a theater one year. Yikes!

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    1. OMG I Forgot about Arsenic and old lace. Lovelvoleovleo Cary Grant. Now see, the Shining to me was just a movie that started Jack Nickolson being...Jack Nickolson, hee hee.

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  11. Nope not me, I can't do scary movies. The Exorcist messed me up for Life!

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    1. That movie was evil ... pure and simple. By today's standards, probably not that scary but when it first came out it was terrifying.

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  12. Msredk - messed me up too, but after a daily dose of mass for a month, I was okay again. But it was one scary movie, too be sure!

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  13. When I was little the scariest movie for me was the Wizard of Oz. I remember hiding behind my mother's arm and peeking at the tv screen. Now I enjoy more Alfred Hitchcock type suspenseful movies. clarksuzannah at gmail dot com

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    1. Suzannah - it seems so many people are or have been scaredof, that movie! YOu'r ein good company

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  14. I can't believe anyone other than me knows about Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein! Yes, I watched the old black and white scary movies too. Today's horror? Not so much since special effects makes it too real. I like to sleep at night. *g* Last scary movie that made me jump in my seat at the movies was Alien, the first one, but I guess that's SF, not horror, even though that scene was totally memorable, shocking, and horrifying.

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    1. I love those old Abbot and COstello movies. I used to watch them every sunday morning on our local tv station, WPIX. So funny.

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  15. COngratulations SUZANNAH CLARK! You are my winner. Look for an email for me about how to claim your book! Thanks to everyone who commented. I love a scary movie and hope you do too!

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