Date Machine: Scary Movies or I Peed My Pants

re: Date Machine: Scary Movies or I Peed My Pants

recycledbrooklyn — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:26:57 GMT

AHG--I had a similar thing happen after I had kids. I couldn't watch slasher movies any more. Anything where kids get hurt makes me wretch--literally. It wasn't a conscious change. Perhaps something instinctual.

re: Date Machine: Scary Movies or I Peed My Pants

amboabe — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:17:07 GMT

recycled: I would have vomited and peed my pants if I had seen that. You've got more vigor than I do, sounds like.

airheadgenius: I slept 3 hours on Sunday night thanks to the kaleidoscopic zombie panorama swirling around in my head. Yesterday was very much indeed :(

re: Date Machine: Scary Movies or I Peed My Pants

airheadgenius — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:49:53 GMT

Pre parenthood, I liked all things scary... horror films, rollercoasters, flying, drugs, fast cars. These days, all the above make me want to vomit. It's partly fear of death in general now I have so much responsibility and partly the fact that I am almost always tired which leads to too much cupboard checking after scary movie which leads to less sleep and then more cupboard checking etc etc. It's not a good look in other words.

re: Date Machine: Scary Movies or I Peed My Pants

recycledbrooklyn — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:43:27 GMT

My aunt used to come from Scotland to stay with us every summer. She'd been run over by a truck (no joke) and couldn't make our stair so she had to sleep in a near upright position on a sofa in our den. I came home stoned one night when I was about 16 and forgot I shouldn't come in through the back door. She was there sprawled with her mouth open and her eyes rolled back in her head wide open. She didn't appear to be breathing and it scared the bejesus out of me. I started screaming for my parents that she was dead. When she sat up all of a sudden and started cursing up a blue streak I nearly wet myself with fright. My family still gets all over me for that.

re: Date Machine: Scary Movies or I Peed My Pants

vix_en25 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:23:29 GMT

yeah... i guess i tend to go off on spooky tangents which is probably normal for a 4 year old to do.

re: Date Machine: Scary Movies or I Peed My Pants

amboabe — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:41:08 GMT

I don't remember ever having any paranoia about the person sleeping next to me suddenly being a zombie. I did have a terrible nightmare when I was 4 in which I came into the living room and announced to my parents that my grandmom had suddenly become a witch. I remember that to this day...

re: Date Machine: Scary Movies or I Peed My Pants

vix_en25 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:02:22 GMT

so yeah, the point is youre not alone.

re: Date Machine: Scary Movies or I Peed My Pants

vix_en25 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:52:44 GMT

I love scary movies but that was before the movies that had to do with torturing people (saw 1 2 and 3), and the remakes of japanese movies like the crush and the ring (although i enjoyed dark water visually). its simply too much. I also live alone and on nights when I remember certain scenes I have to fall asleep with the lights on. If Im sharing a bed with someone on a night like this then I usually freak myself out with thoughts of that person turning around and revealing himself to have a scary monster face. I need help.