Depending on the type of person you are really. I like them as long as they aren't the "there's a creepy slasher guy who has decided he's going to attack, torture and kill everyone in the 38th house on your street,oh shit, that's your house" type film. Certain types of supernatural films get me too. Not Paranormal Activity cos that was just crap but films like that.
I just watched Dark Water which has Jennifer Connolly as a woman going through a messy post-divorce child custody battle with her husband and moves into an apartment building which is haunted by the spirit of a little girl who died by falling into a water tank.It's very depressing and it's meant to be more of an intellectual "make you think about the human mind" film but doesn't quite meet the mark though it makes a decent attempt.
Dark Water is based off an Asian horror novel and I can imagine the original would've been a lot better as with the Grudge and the Ring etc.
I'm also watching it home alone at 2:09AM and if it were a better film I think I would be shitting myself right now. But this is not the type of film to leave me wanting to run to my friends house in case the same plot suddenly takes place in my house.
The few sane readers I have are currently asking "why the hell are you up at 2:09 in the morning watching horror movies home alone?"
Well partially because I'm making the most of my Dad and brother being up at a hockey tournament and the fact I'm still on mid-term break, that explains the home alone part.
Also I'm still desperately hoping that my cat, Frei, will come home and as I never know when that will be, I am terrified to go to bed or leave the house in case he comes home and I'm not here so he leaves again.
I keep hearing the floor creak in the corner of the room behind the fridge and automatically my brain associates that with the noise Frei makes when he's under the house coming in through the old hot water cupboard.
But of course then I remember that the noise is coming fro the wrong end of the room and the no, it's not Frei coming home and I'm just hearing things.Again.
Those of you old enough to have your own pets will know why I'm so desperate for him to come home. I don't mean people who have a family pet that was given to them for a birthday or is just considered 'their pet'.
When you get your first pet and you raise them and toilet train them and take them to their first vet visit and you buy them the food and their toys and their collar and watch their personality come through, it's heartbreaking to think of anything happening to them that you can't help them with.
I guess it's the same with kids, you take them to their first day of school or their first sleep over and you wait... and wait... and wait and you're terrified something is going to happen and you just want them to come home.
A 4 year old was in the news last week because he went missing and 6 days later they hadn't found him. Eventually they discovered his body in the river that flowed past the back of the family property.
I can only imagine how awful it must have been for his parents just waiting and every day the not knowing.
By no means am I comparing my missing cat to a 4 year old drowning and being found 8 days later.
However, it is a good example of what I'm going through and I feel I can understand his parent's dilemma a bit bitter.
When you wait day after day and just don't know what's happened it's just awful... awful. You want to go out and look because you feel so helpless sitting at home doing nothing. At the same time there are only so many places you can look and only so many times you can check the same place.
Sometimes the answer IS to sit and wait. That answer isn't always helpful though because you feel like you're not doing enough or there is something you should be doing and if only you knew what it was then maybe that would get them home sooner.
I'm sorry guys, these posts have been slightly down but I am kind of going insane waiting for Frei to come home.
I promise I'll get something super cheerful and awesome up soon.
In the mean time, check out Allie's latest offering at hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com she currently has a mini comic strip about being careful what you wish for but from a funny new angle.
Also if you see my cat bring him home damnit!!!
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