I Don't Need My Nightmare Fuel Tank Topped Off...
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Okay, I honestly need to quit reading stuff that I KNOW will give me nightmares. Or at the very least freak me out enough to make me lose sleep...
I admit it. I'm a wimp. I know I'll probably never be able to watch certain movies -- horror, slasher, zombie, violent shoot-em-ups... heck, I'm not sure I can handle the Alien movies. It's so bad that just reading a plot synopsis of some movies can freak me out, especially if said synopsis includes screencaps.
So why do I go and look up movies that I know are going to scare me somehow? Train-wreck syndrome? Am I just a masochist in that way?
This time around it wasn't horror movies per se -- it was nuclear-war movies, specifically The Day After, Threads, and When the Wind Blows. And the synopsis of that last one was even thoughtful (or cruel) enough to provide a link to the scans of the comic book it was based off of. And I know, the Cold War is over and Russia and the US are no longer threatening each other with nuclear strikes, but still, it's a subject that's bound to make anyone jittery, right?
So yeah, last night I was up half the night because of a nightmare about a bomb going off near our house. I feel ashamed to admit it, but there you go.
What's funny is that I can read horror fiction just fine most of the time -- Stephen King gets a little intense and squicky in parts, but he hasn't given me nightmares yet. I guess it's because with a book, you control what you "see" to some extent, but with a movie synopsis, you know it's visual and so you're trying to picture it in your head... and sometimes your imagination comes up with something far more awful than what's actually on the screen.
So there's my embarassing confession for the week, I guess. *slinks off to hide*
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I find slasher movies over the top (in many ways), so I don't bother with them. The Kill Bill movies are probably the closest I will ever get to watching one, and besides, I find the fact that the violence is over the top and stylized (sometimes reminding me of sumi-e paintings) makes it easy to watch. Though the eyeball scene in Volume Two is a bit much.
And I still have nightmares about Blurr from Animated. They're usually creepy and rather sad, and I hate when he pops up in them. Though that's nothing compared to the funny one I had where, when on a trip to meet the Autobots, I learned on arrival that they had been kicked out of Oregon some time ago.
But yeah, I tend to like the creepy "is something going to jump out of the darkness?" movies then the RAWR!KILLSLASHMAIM! scary movies. And let I enjoy crime dramas. Weird.
And sorry about the Spongmonkeys. They just like the moon, among other things. And Quiznos subs.
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Have no fear, my friend. You're not alone. I too have that problem. It's not as bad now - after watching a number of slasher films a couple of years ago, I got burned out on such films and am no longer really bothered by them. I just don't watch them anymore because they got so bloody (no pun intended) repetitive.
And yet, every once in a while, I will still encounter something that is disturbing enough that I have to stay awake and read something that's more light-hearted, or get nightmares. (In my case, it usually involves movies with animal cruelty. I HATE that kind of thing.)
Speaking of Stephen King, when I first watched Stanley Kubrick's version of "The Shining" all the way through, I had to sit back and watch my copy of "Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein" in order to not have nightmares that night. Yet the book (which was actually tamer in some respects) didn't give me any troubles at all.
Also, have you per chance taken a look at Schlock Mercenary yet?
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Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
Not yet, but I'm planning on it.
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No problem about the Spongmonkeys. They're weird, but not truly frightening to me.
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In that case, don't watch the teddy ruxpin one. That toy is creepy. And pure evil I tell ya.
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"I reject your reality and substitute it with my own." - Adam Savage
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At the moment, I'm busy catching up on the Star Trek films. Movie 11 (the start of a new era in the franchise) comes out on DVD next Tuesday, and I'm looking forward to watching it.
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Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
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