Northern Noise

I've run into a couple of folks the past few days that I haven't seen for awhile.  Both asked me the same question, "Did you do something different with you hair?"  It made me smile because I haven't done anything different with my hair.  Been the same for a long while. I have lost 35 lbs.  Maybe that's what's different.

When it come to really scary, no one does it like Stephen King.  His books have caused me to sleep with a light on, pulling my toes in so they don't go off the edge of the bed.  Even his "non-scary" books are scary, often through examination of human nature, but also with the way he makes normal people experience paranormal events.  But, since this post is about the categories of horror in my collection, I'll share the four  Stephen King movies I own which most folks would count as "scary." Stephen King Movies: Pet Sematary .  Classic cautionary tale of letting the dead be dead. Especially if it includes an ancient Indian burial ground. The Mist.  The humans are the scariest, but, like it's predecessor The Fog , not being able to see what's out there is  horrifying.  This one isn't as scary the second time around, which I think weakens it's status as a classic. IT .  This is one of the most terrifying books out there, and Pennywise th...

October is scary movie month at our house.  It has been since Aileen hit about 13 years old, and we like being scared.  Over time we've gotten a pretty decent collection of what I see as classic horror movies.  Recently a friend asked me if we had a method to watching them - chronology, based on true story, zombie, etc.  It made me think about the types of movies we have and why.  So here's a first attempt at making sense of them. The Classics: Damien - The original demon child When we started watching movies, part of what I was doing was helping build Ali's cultural literacy.  (Like the summer I made her watch all the John Hughes movies, but with more death).  I think we started with the original Psycho ,  followed by The Omen with Gregory Peck and Lee Remick.  Like The Exorcist , which we've seen but don't own, these have cultural references everyone should know.  They're also pretty darn scary in their own ways.  Georg...