What’s your favorite scary movie?

What is your favorite scary movie? That is the question I pose to you.  Of course if you ask it of me I doubt I would be able to give you a real answer.  You see I have never really seen a scary movie, not straight on anyway.  The thing is, the only way I can watch a scary movie is through some sort of screen.  At home I watch them through an afghan.  At the movies I watch them through my sweater. (Yes I wear a sweater to a scary movie even in summer heat)  And when the action gets a bit too intense I close my eyes and block it all out and depend upon my ears to give me a clue as to what has happened.  It doesn’t matter that the 8 year old sitting two rows in front of me sits with rapt attention, I am watching safely under a gauze of yarn and wool.

This past weekend my husband and I went to see "The woman in black." a gothic type ghost story.  It was his choice of course since I would much rather have seen something a bit lighter. Don't ask me for a review because I would have to give you a choppy one, since most of the time I was buried under my sweater with my eyes tightly closed. Even through this protection, I jumped out of my seat when someone screamed or the music blared at a critical moment.  And my husband sat stoically next to me unaffected.

I think it all started when I was a kid.  My mother would force me to visit my grandmother who lived in an old Victorian house that seemed as if it was a block long. It had creepy hallways, turrets and spiral staircases. All the weather had to do was add a thunderstorm and my imagination would run away with me screaming down those halls. If ever there was a place that a ghost could call home, that was it!

 One such time, while visiting my grandmother I went with a friend in the neighborhood to a matinee to see, of all things…”The blob.”  The movie got to the part where the gook rolled down the stick and then it jumped… and so did I-- right out of my seat and out of the theater.  Needless to say my friend followed none too happy. 

So in order to keep my scare loving friends, I needed to figure out a way to watch, but not watch, hence the burrow viewing. 

So what is your favorite scary movie?  And do you watch it straight on or do you use my sheltered method?