So I was looking at some scary movie lists out there, and I can’t believe how many movies there are that I have never seen! I must have looked through ten lists, just to see if I could find some that I had forgotten about. Anyway, of the movies that I have seen in my lifetime, I will tell you that these movies are by far the best of the scary!
28 Days Later – I thought this movie was pretty scary. I tend to like those movies that are on the verge of being a real possibility. This movie did not have any real big movie stars in it, but the acting was great, and it kept me on the edge of the couch…lol. It was much better than I thought it would be.
Carrie – Was a great scary movie for its time. I remember being pretty scared as a kid watching this one.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre – I didn’t see this movie until about five years ago, and the scary part about it was that there are probably towns just like this somewhere. The bloody guts and gore scenes were really good too.
Saw – This one and all of its following sequels are all good for giving you chills up and down your spine. The whole idea behind this one is the scariest of them all. I think the one of the worst ones was in the second or third one when the girl falls into the syring filled pit. Yuck, I hate the thought of thousands of pins being stuck in me.
Exorcist – This movie is the paranormal scary winner of them all. I loved this movie, and as I said before, I first saw it when I was nine. After that, it was very difficult for movies to scare me. My favorite scene has always been when the demons make her head do a complete 360.
Silence of the Lambs – A ScaryGeek classic. I may be a bit biased as I just love the acting in this one by Anthony Hopkins. He is amazing, and so is this movie.
Pet Sematary – This movie was pretty scary, maybe not the best, but definitely enjoyed it. I had just had kids when I saw it, and when the little boy gets run over in the beginning I cried. Then he comes back and the scene in the hallway when he is dying and says, “no fair” just made me cry again. I know, its supposed to be scary.
Alien – Definitely scary, and very good. Those Aliens are the scariest of all Aliens that have ever been created. Even better than the Predator. This movie had me on edge the whole time.
Hostile - This is a movie I have not heard too much about, but it scared me because I know that there are really places like this, and that is something that makes me sick and scared at the same time. Good movie if you like blood and guts, severed hands, fingers, toes, heads, you name it.
Well, this is just a list of some of my favorites, I will try to get a list of more together and post again. Have fun.
I am not sure why I have this love of scary horror flicks, but I do. I have been watching scary movies since I was a little girl, and I can’t even imagine allowing my little ones to watch the movies I watched at that age….lol. I couldn’t decide which one was scarier than the other so it is a tie. Remember back in the 70’s when all we had was the “Z Channel”…..wow, I remember it was the coolest thing ever. Just a turn of one knob and you had instant movies at your finger tips. Well, I was nine, and it was late. I remember my parents let me stay up later then usual and I was all alone. I turned that knob and I watched “Exorcist” all by myself, in the dark. I remember I started watching it on the floor, and then slowly ended up in the corner of the couch with my feet up….lol. It was that movie that got me hooked. Nothing really scared me much after that. Not the Omen, not anything, until…..”The Trilogy of Terror”….wow, that movie really freaked me out. It had Karen Black in it too, and that little Voodoo doll, or Zuni doll they called it….yikes! I kept looking at those razor sharp teeth and imagined it biting at my feet and legs. I think I was 12 when I finally saw that one. I have been wanting to get the movie and watch it now, but I would probably be disappointed. They should do a remake of that one, now that would be good. The special effects and computer animation that they can do now would make this movie much more realistic. The end was the best, when Karen Black is sitting there with her sharp teeth and her knife, and she is stabbing at the floor. I think she was waiting for her fiance to come home. The Zuni doll was a gift for him. It was great, I haven’t seen that movie in over 20 years, wow do I feel old. Anyway, if you want to watch an old scary movie or two, these are sure winners. I loved them both. Well, have a scary day!
Tonight is the night of the very first full moon of the year, it is also known as Wolf Moon. On this night the moon will be it’s biggest and brightest of any other full moon of the year. Go ahead, take a look, it is very bright and beautiful tonight!
I wanted to give everyone an update on the activity in our home, that has been occurring since about the middle of August of 2009. We live in New Braunfels, Texas at the moment, with four of our five children. Our oldest daughter is 13, and she seems to be the conduit that attracts these spirits to our home. They are generally seen in or around the stairway, and are seen as shadow figures, orbs, bright figures, and now we are seeing actual full apparitions.
Since August, my husband and I moved into the bedrooms upstairs, and all of the kids sleep together in the master bedroom downstairs. This way they are as far away from the stairway as possible. Anyway, after we put the kids to bed last night my daughter called me down to the bedroom because she was hearing footsteps in the attic. Then she said she was also hearing voices, but she could not make out what they were saying. I stayed with her in the bedroom for a while and then she began to get frustrated because she does not know why they won’t just leave her alone. She said that all she wants to do is to be able to sleep. I feel so bad for her. We sat there and listened with her, but she said that they soon stopped. I decided to just let her come up stairs and sleep with me, so that the both of us could get some sleep.
Well, she seemed to fall asleep pretty quickly, but I stayed awake for a bit, because I was feeling like something followed us up stairs. I was trying to get comfortable when I heard footsteps and something in the attic. I turned to the sound and heard it a couple more times, and then it settled down. I didn’t tell my daughter this, but earlier before I went down to her bedroom, I was lying in the bed trying to get comfortable when I felt something grab my exposed leg, and it happened just as she called me down.
We really are not afraid of these spirits anymore, we have gotten quite used to them. The only problem is that they do not let us rest. A good nights seep would be wonderful. We will be moving soon, and I know that it will not solve our problem, but I am going to do my best to make these spirits stay right here in this house.
I was reading the news articles today on Yahoo, and I found out that Zelda Rubinstein died from complications, after suffering a heart attack only two months ago. She was only 76 years-old. She is probably best known for her part in one of my favorite movies, for its time, “Poltergeist..” She played the medium that cleansed the house at the end of the movie, Tangina Barrons. I remember her very distinctive voice as she said, “This house is clean!” She played in many other parts on shows like “Picket Fences” and “Under the Rainbow.” She was 47 when she got her first part, which is a little old to start and acting career. She was only 4 ft. 3 inches tall, and had a unique look to her, and I always loved her part in the movie “Poltergeist.” One thing that I did not know, was that there was supposedly a “curse” on the whole “Poltergeist” movie. It was kind of like the Bruce Lee curse, but worse. Several actors died from the time of the first movie in 1982 to the last in 1988.
Dominique Dunne, who played the eldest daughter, was strangled by her abusive boyfriend in her driveway when she refused to reconcile with him in 1982. She was only 22 years-old.
Heather O’Rourke was the youngest daughter in the movie, and in she became ill in 1987 and was misdiagnosed with Crohn’s disease. She had actually had a bowel obstruction which caused her to become septic, and died when she went in to cardiac arrest during her surgery.
Will Sampson, died in 1987 at the age of 53. He was ill prior to the filming of Poltergeist. He was in need of a kidney transplant, and died of kidney failure.
Julian Beck had a major role in Poltergeist II, and was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1983, and died two years later at the age of 60.
Lou Perry was murdered at his home in South Austin, Texas, in 2009.
I guess most of these can be labeled coincidence, but during those few years between 1982 and 1988 they are not so sure. They call it the “Polergeist” curse……Rest In Peace, Zelda!
I moved my family to New Braunfels, Texas in July of 2009. About three weeks after moving there we began to experience and increase in paranormal activity. Our family is not new to the paranormal. I have several family members who possess real psychic abilities including myself, my husband, and our children. The problem now, is that these spirits, ghosts, or entities have increased their presence, and have made if very difficult to go one night without an incident. Most of the activity seems to occur in and around our stairway and loft area. We see shadow figures all of the time, they walk up and down the stairs several times a day. Sometimes they just sit at the top of the stairs and I wonder what they are thinking. I have had them come into the room and walk over to my side of the bed and just stand there, staring, and I wonder what it is that they want. Sometimes when I am in my bedroom or in the bathroom getting ready for work, my kids will walk up the stairs, and as they get to the top they start screaming. My little boy calls them monsters but I try to get him to see that they are not, and that he needs to tell them to just go away. He has now started to tell them when he sees them, and he points his fingers at them too. When we have family gatherings I have started to take lots of pictures, and when we are done there are always lots of very bright orbs that have joined us in our festivities. I love to ask them to take pictures with us, because they usually do. There seems to be one that I recognize, and that is interesting to me. It is the same bluish color and has the same markings time and time again. Lately, my kids have seen an increase in activity in the down stairs bathroom and closet. We have had light fixtures fall off of ceilings, and doors open that were closed. The kids take baths in the big tub in there, and every once in a while my little ones decided that they want to get out because there is something in the closet. We hear a lot of noise from in there, and I don’t know what it is, but the kids do not like it. My youngest son sees it, and I know he does, because he will point it out, and he trembles. The ghost in the closet has caused me many nights of sleep. Anyway, I will be writing about more of my true ghost stories as they come about. Right now, one has just decided to join us in the bedroom.
