Dark & Twisty

Okay, so I lost my old blog.  I lost my wife's interview about monsters.  Here is a new interview with her about things scary.  Please note that she is not a fan of horror or reading horror novels. (But we're working on that.)

Why don't you like horror? Lauren: Well, I guess I don't like it at the time.  I don't like it when things jump out.  I don't like to be startled.  The more psychological things, like Halloween, bother me later because they are too real.  They are like things that could actually happen to you.  I think on it too hard.

So we've discussed a variety of monsters, what is the scariest monster for you? Lauren: Like an actual monster? [yes].  I don't know.  A lot of monsters don't actually scare me that bad.  As a kid, I was terribly frightened by the Gremlins.  I guess I'm more scared of people than monsters.  I can think of one thing that always freaked me out.  That truck from the movie Duel.  I didn't like that it really bothered me.

Did you know that Duel was a book first? Lauren: Yeah. Wasn't it a Stephen King book?

So what about the Exorcist? Lauren: It sucked. If you're asking me if it was scary, ah . . . no.  You hear all these things about the exorcist, you would think that me a scaredy cat would be frightened.  The creepiest thing was the girl's makeup.  There was too much of the movie that was unnecessary.  After studying demon possession, there wasn't much to it.

Talking about devil children, how about Rosemary's Baby? Lauren: The movie, I haven't read the book, wasn't really all that scary.  It was curious because you don't really understand what's going on.  Until you think you haven't at the end, unless she's just crazy.  Even so, nothing bad happens in the movie.  it's not all that frightening.

 So how about Jaws? Lauren: Didn't you ask me about Jaws the last time.  It's scarier than somethings because they really are sharks and you hear of people seriously or mortally injured by sharks.  Because it is based on a true story, it's too much food for thought.  It lingers.

What about Hammer Horror movies? Lauren: I thik to most modern people, even anti-horror people like me.  Hammer horror seems, quant.  It's supposed to be scary and was intended so in the time it was made, but it's kind of like reading Dracula, it's just old fashion enough to not be scary.

So you're a history teacher, whose scarier Abraham Lincoln or Harry S. Truman? Lauren: Why those two?  In the looks department, Lincoln.  In terms of capabilities, probably Truman.

Again as a history teacher, who would you least like to meet in a dark alley U.S. Grant or Walt Whitman? Laren: I don't know enough about Walt Whitman to make that decision, and how drunk is Grant?

Okay, John Q. Adams or Mike Arnzen? Lauren: Ooh, definitely Mike Arnzen.

One last question, what is the creepiest song you know? Lauren: Can it be a like just movie music or a song? [Doesn't matter].  Probably the music from the shower scene from Psycho.