Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

11. First horror movie you remember watching?

Confession time - I'm a big, girly wuss when it comes to horror films. For heavens sakes, "Carry On Screaming" traumatised me, so you can imagine how I feel about full fledged horror movies! I avoid them like the plauge.

2 sorta exceptions, because I don't know if horror fans would consider them part of the genre.. "Aliens", which a friend once plied me with cider and got me to watch (liked it) and "Constantine", which I loved to bits but I came outta the cinema with sore stomach muscles where I'd been tensing for the next big fright. (c.f. "big, girly wuss). Oh and I loved "The Frighteners", but I don't know if that would count?

However, all that said, there was a time when I was staying over at my friend Karen's house. Her parents were out and we were trusted to be on our own, so I'm thinking we must have been 13 or 14 at the time. There was me, Karen and Karen's younger brother, Neil. Naturally, we had the TV on and left it on while we were playing whatever board game was the game du jour and it drifted into the late Saturday night movie which was a horror movie called "The Survivor" (Huge, huge props to halcyon_shift for helping me track this down, btw). Well none of us really watched horror movies but we all kinda talked ourselves into it. Besides, it starred Robert Powell whom we all liked, and Jenny Agutter who we knew only from The Railway Children, so how bad could it be, right?

It was terrifying!

What we did was we each took it in turns to watch for five minutes while the others kinda hid and then we'd say what happened and switch places :P The basic premise of the movie was that there was a catastrophic plane crash where the only survivor is the pilot, who walks out without a scratch. He doesn't know why he survived and he tries to find out. There is a few evil twists that I'm fairly sure M.Night Shyamalan copied down for future reference but back then, it was pretty darn shocking.

We maaaaay have left the hall lights on when we finally went to bed *whistles innocently*

Work news - didn't go into work today, still queasy and just couldn't face another day of being bored outta my skull and feeling crappy. Feel better this evening though so will be going in tomorrow. There may have been happy flailing over Inception with halcyon_shift, which was great fun, plus I'm watching shiny, shiny White Collar S1 DVDs *cuddles her show*

Rob T Furball was VERY pleased not to be abandoned. He's going to be Unhappy tomorrow :P You should heard the yowling I got Monday when he realised both me and thessalian were leaving the house and cruelly abandoning him. Bless his fuzzy four paws *scritches the snoring lump*