Mommy! The Ring scared me!

This post contains spoilers, so don't read it of those scare you.

You know Poltergeist, with the whole thing about how the evil spirits were communicating with the creepy little girl through the television static? It took me years to get over getting freaked out by television static. Now I have to start all over again. Stupid movie.

It really wasn't so bad most of the way through. There were some images that are going to stick with me a while that I'd really rather not have seen, such as a horse jumping off of a ferry and bashing into the side and getting beaten into the boat again and again. Gleh. But it really wasn't that scary. Kinda like how the Blair Witch Project wasn't really scary -- until the last five minutes, when they went into that house. The final image of Mike standing in the corner screwed me up for days. This was kinda like that. I thought it was over. Happy ending and everything. I was all set to walk out of there and bitch about now not scary it was. But then it just kept going. And it wouldn't stop. And ... and ... I'm home now, and I've got every freaking light in the house on. And I'm moving my TV out of my bedroom tonight before I go to sleep. If I go to sleep.

Damn.

This is why I usually stick to slasher flicks. Cheap scare, but then it's over with when I leave the theater. Sure I sometimes wonder if Michael Myers is lurking in the dark corners when I have to go outside at night, but then I get back inside and lock the doors and it passes. But this supernatural stuff sticks with me and makes me have to sleep with all the lights on. I hate that. I'm probably gonna be up all night watching Buffy videos to wash the taste out of my mouth. I'm aware of the irony. But those have monsters that the heroes can beat up and kill and then the bad stuff is all over, plus there's comedy. And Spike. Spike makes everything better.

Speaking of ... some new DL should get posted within the next couple hours or so, so keep a look out for that.