{"id":9498,"date":"2015-07-09T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=9498"},"modified":"2015-07-16T13:44:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T17:44:46","slug":"missing-horror-movies-of-days-long-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/missing-horror-movies-of-days-long-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Horror Movies of Days Long Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I miss the Horror movies of days long ago. My oldest brother used to force me and my other brother to watch all these Horror movies with him. It would be at night, after eight p.m. when my parents would go upstairs and leave us alone. Of course, my brother would turn off the lights. Sometimes, if we begged him, he would leave them on, but not too often. And we would be introduced to \u201cHellraiser\u201c (1987, 1988), NOEL (\u201cNightmare on Elm Street,\u201d), \u201cHalloween,\u201d \u201cFriday The 13th,\u201d \u201cChild\u2019s Play,\u201d and \u201cHouse\u201d (1986). Yes, there was a Horror movie called \u201cHouse,\u201d and thanks to that movie and \u201cPoltergeist\u201d (1982), I had a problem with closets. It didn\u2019t help that I went opening weekend to see \u201cGhostbusters\u201c (1984), where my mother had covered my eyes throughout the movie right up to when that hellhound creature yanked Sigourney Weaver\u2019s character into the freaking closet. Thanks, mom, but isn\u2019t that what Horror movies are supposed to do? Scare the ever living crap out of you, and yes, even traumatize you.<\/p>\n

Years later, my younger brother gained the same appetite for Horror movies as my older brother. He loved Horror movies, and who did he drag to the movie theatre? You guessed it, and I blew away the whole plot of \u201cFinal Destination\u201d (2000) before he got on the plane. I thought the audience was going to kill me, but my brother got his revenge. We went to see the first \u201cResident Evil\u201d (2002) opening weekend at the movies, and after the elevator scene (if you saw the movie, you know what I\u2019m talking about), we were both under our seats. Through half of that movie, this was the argument that my brother and I were having. \u201cYou look.\u201d \u201cNo, you look.\u201d \u201cYou look!\u201d \u201cHow about we both look,\u201d and we finally did, jumping up out of our skin. But that\u2019s what I love about Horror. It\u2019s the rollercoaster ride that keeps you screaming, and I was on crutches when I saw \u201cScream\u201c (1996). That did not stop me from jumping out of my seat, but after my younger brother forced me to watch \u201cSAW\u201d I and II, luckily not back-to-back, I was done. Both times at the end, I felt like someone had kneed me in the gut. To this day, no Horror movie has ever made me throw up except for \u201cJason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday\u201d (1993). Why did I see that movie? I guess I was a glutton for punishment, but after that, I was done.<\/p>\n

I hate the Horror movies of today. The \u201cParanormal Activity\u201d? Really? I did not need to be hopping out of my seat just for a scare. I want substance. I want another boogeyman. We need a new Freddy Kreuger, and I am not talking about remaking him. We need to stop with the remakes, because the remake of \u201cFright Night\u201d sucked \u2013 literally. Someone, somewhere, needs to create a new monster to scare the ever-living crap out of us, and Chucky needs to be forced into retirement. At least, in my search for a good Horror movie, I did stumble across \u201cHush\u201d (2009), \u201cPrisoner\u201d (2007), \u201cTell Tale\u201d (2009), and \u201cThe Purge\u201d (2013), which did a great honor to the Sci-Fi story it was based on. I cannot comment on the sequel because I did not see it, and speaking of Sci-Fi, could someone please turn Ray Bradbury\u2019s \u201cZero Hour\u201d into a movie? You want to scare the crap out of people? That ending would definitely do it, and another thing that I love about Horror movies is that there are no happy endings except for \u201cMimic\u201d (1997). But we do not need an ending like in \u201cThe Mist\u201d (2007). I wanted to scream like Thomas Jane at the end of that movie. It was as mind numbing as the \u201cSoprano\u201d ending.<\/p>\n

Speaking of mind numbing, I avoid the new Horror movies like the plague. It\u2019s right up there with stupid movies, but I miss the Horror. I miss the thrills and chills. At least, I can finally open my closet door at night.<\/p>\n

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Melissa R. Mendelson is a published author and poet, whose writing has been featured in Names in a Jar: A Collection of Poetry by 100 Contemporary American Poets, Espresso Fiction: A Collection of Flash Fiction for the Average Joe, and Antarctica Journal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I hate the Horror movies of today. The \u201cParanormal Activity\u201d? Really? I did not need to be hopping out of my seat just for a scare. I want substance. I want another boogeyman. We need a new Freddy Kreuger, and I am not talking about remaking him. We need to stop with the remakes, because the remake of \u201cFright Night\u201d sucked \u2013 literally. Someone, somewhere, needs to create a new monster to scare the ever-living crap out of us, and Chucky needs to be forced into retirement.”<\/p>\n

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