Carnival of Souls

Happy Halloween everyone!

I have been watching a lot of horror movies the last month, and I still have several to go in my Netflix queue. But that's okay, I like horror any time of the year. Last week I watched Carnival of Souls for the first time ever. The movie was made in the early 1960s, and it was a lot of fun to watch. I probably enjoyed it because it reminded me of The Twilight Zone. It had all of the same elements, the same eerie atmosphere, and a twist ending that I could see coming a mile away. There were several cheesy moments, but I totally expected that. Despite some bad acting on the parts of some characters, I think that anyone who enjoys films should watch this movie once in their lives. Visually, it was really well done for a low-budget movie from that time. And the scene above was enough to freak me out.

I must admit that I have a tendency to not see what is coming in a movie or a book. When I am reading or totally engrossed in a movie, I live right in the moment and don't even think about what could be happening later. I did not see the twist ending coming when I read Fight Club. I did not see the twist ending coming in The Sixth Sense. Sometimes this is embarassing because the outcome seems so obvious when I look back. But I think this is a good thing. I LOVE it when I am surprised. It would ruin it for me to know what's coming. Not everyone is like this; when I watch a movie with Mikel, she always guesses what's going to happen. She will say things like, "He killed her, didn't he?" and it pisses me off.

When my brother and I were kids, we would watch movies with my mom, who is very squeamish. I remember watching Misery with her, and we had seen it before. She watches movies like that through her fingers. She told us to let her know when a scary or gross part was coming up so she could look away. We were kind of mean; we would always "forget" that something gross was going to happen and she would yell at us for letting her see it. Brother-sister bonding time. That was fun. Sorry about that, mom.