Oct

I have a love/hate relationship with scary movies – I am absolutely addicted to watching them, but I do get scared very easily. So in listing out “scariest movies I’ve ever seen” for this week’s challenge, these are actually movies that haunt me, truly. I’ve watched each of these movies over and over again, but always with my eyes covered during the scary parts!

1. Nightmare on Elm Street – honestly, the part where the kids are singing the song “one, two, Freddie’s coming for you…” makes my blood run cold. Even typing that scared me! Not the whole movie, but somehow that particular part just totally creeps me out.

2. Halloween – the first true boogeyman, and still the best; the scene where he stands up behind Laurie in the closet – yikes!

3. Rosemary’s Baby – amazingly well-made…the tension builds & builds…even though you suspect, you still can’t believe it in the end

4. Scream – refreshing take on the whole genre, offers some genuine twists; I STILL can’t watch this movie alone

5. The Omen – the scene with the nannie hanging herself saying “Damien, it’s all for you”; again, I start tripping just thinking about it.

6. Alien – enough said. AWESOME movie, start to finish. The monster was amazing, and it was so refreshing to see a heroine do more than scream; Sigourney Weaver kicks serious butt!

7. Deliverance – yeah, this is why I’m a city girl…

8. Jaws – again, kind of quintessential scary movie thing, and of course the music…

9. Misery – who knew having someone adore you could suck SO MUCH?!!

10. Carrie – okay, high school might’ve been bad, but it couldn’t POSSIBLY have sucked for you as much as it did for poor Carrie; I know the end is supposed to be the worst part, but the scene in the beginning where she gets her period and all the other girls make fun of her…THAT is horrifying

11. Open Water – truly, worst nightmare. I think the anticipation would kill me way before a shark did!

12. Pet Cemetary – the book is WAY more scrary than the movie, but the kid turning psycho and the ending where the wife comes back…very wacked

13. Poltergeist – this one, I don’t even know why, but it totally creeps me out

14. The Shining – okay really only the “All work and no play…” thing, but still, imagine if that were YOUR husband?!!

15. Single White Female – imitation sometimes is NOT flattery, not by a mile

16. The Vanishing – BURIED ALIVE?!! (obviously, my claustrophobic tendencies come out here)

17. Urban Legends – I know, I know, not a great quality film, but the IDEA of it, someone taking urban legends and making them real, and just seeing images of all those campfire stories you’ve heard over the years … very, very creepy.

18. The Last Supper – scary because it is probably everyone’s potential

19. Saved! – given the current cultural climate, this movie is in NO way funny to me, just very VERY frightening

20. Child’s Play – I’m ashamed to admit it, but it’s true…Chucky scared me

21. The Hitcher – THIS what your mom meant when she warned you not to talk to strangers…

22. A Clockwork Orange – disturbing both because of the initial violence itself, but also because of the “reform”; it’s too believable that our society would end up here.

23. The Amityville Horror – the original, not the remake! The idea that evil voices could come out of nowhere and turn you into a murderer … very not cool to an 7 year old girl!

24. Helter Skelter – I saw this as TV miniseries when I was a kid, it totally terrified me. I’ve been skeptical of hippies ever since!

25. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest – scary commentary on society, especially given the political climate these days.

I know I’m in the minority, but I don’t consider Seven, or Silence of the Lambs scary – just very intensely suspensful. Psycho – same thing. Also, Excorcist doesn’t scare me, just really weird. I should also note that I have never seen “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”, “The Thing”, or “The Ring”.

By the way – my kids were so adorable tonight! Sami was a fairy princess and Eli was Micky Mouse.

  

Oct

I have A LOT of guilty musical pleasures, unfortunately, so this week’s challenge wasn’t hard for me! I like a wide variety of music in almost all genres, and that includes a lot of sappy crappy pop music. Some of it is harder to admit than others, though! %-)

1. Ooh Aah…Just a Little Bit (Gina G)
2. I Want It That Way (Backstreet Boys)
3. Afternoon Delight (Starland Vocal Band)
4. MmmBop (Hanson)
5. Fishin’ in the Dark (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
6. I Want You (Savage Garden)
7. Kokomo (Beach Boys)
8. Soldier of Love (Donny Osmond)
9. Eye of the Tiger (Survivor)
10. Footloose (Kenny Loggins)

  

Oct

Similar to week #1, this week’s challenge was to make a collage online?!! Here’s a link to the site:
Collage Machine

Did it, but didn’t really get the point – guess I’m just not feeling that creative this week! My favorite part was a panda bear standing at a tripod taking a picture of a great white shark swimming right at him. I couldn’t figure out how to save the drawing, though, so I can’t post it here. Oh, well! %-)

  

Oct

Even though I tend to prefer suspenseful, dramatic movies, for this week’s challenge on favorite movie lines, I’ve drawn from mostly from comedies or horror films. Somehow they always seem to have the best one-liners!

1. “Asshole” — Otto (Kevin Kline) to pretty much anyone and everyone in A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

2. “Bond. James Bond.” — no explanation needed, I imagine

3. “I’ll have what she’s having.” — anonymous female diner (Estelle Reiner), following the infamous “faking it” scene in When Harry Met Sally (1989)

4. “We all go a little mad sometimes.” — Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) in Psycho (1960)

5. “Game over, man! Game over!” — Hudson (Bill Paxton) in Aliens (1986)

6. “Love your suit.” — Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

7. “I can’t believe I gave my panties to a geek.” — Samantha (Molly Ringwald) in Sixteen Candles (1984)

8. “My Mama always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.’” Forrest (Tom Hanks) in Forrest Gump (1994)

9. “Look, Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this” — HAL (voice of Douglas Rains): in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

10. “There are just some mistakes you can’t make when you have children” — Flor (Paz Vega) to John (Adam Sandler) in the 2004 movie Spanglish; decidedly NOT funny, I know, and not chilling either, but something that speaks to me in a very profound way at this point in my life.