I have always loved horror films. But I do remember the first time I truly fell in love with them. I remember watching movies as a kid like Children of the Corn, or Gremlins, but it wasn’t until I saw one movie in particular that I began to love psychological thrillers. The first movie to really get me into real modern horror was the first Saw movie to come out in theatres. I was young and not allowed to see then. I was so angry because, as every pre teen, I believed I was old then and old enough to do whatever I wanted. But the rules were still the rules, and I absolutely could not see Saw. But it looked so good! My sister told me that she didn’t want to deal with my complaints of being tired and not able to sleep. She said she wouldn’t put up with my wining about how I had to sleep in her bed and couldn’t be home alone because I was scared. It was so annoying to me that my sister thought I would be such a baby, and only encouraged my desire to see the movie ten times more.
I waited weeks while everyone else saw it. All my friends saw it, and even some of my family. It made me so irritated that my friends, almost all my age and if not, only a year or two older, were all able to see it, but not me. I was getting upset that everyone in my grade was talking about it and going with each other to see it, and I was the odd man out. To make matters so much more vexing, my brother bothered me about it forever because he knew I had wanted to see it so bad, and he had already seen it twice. Finally, when it was out of the theaters and on DVD to rent, I was going to rent it! Only problem was, I didn’t know how to rent the movie. I was young and did not have a blockbuster card or the money to rent it.
So I waited some more. I waited until my best friend could convince his brother to rent it. At that point I was so excited. I didn’t know how we were going to get it from his brother, or where we would watch it, but I figured, this was the best shot I had. So finally, one night he took it out of the house, came over, waited for my sister to go to bed and be fast asleep, and we watched it together. It was great! I couldn’t sleep all night. I had nightmares and found that it wasn’t scary with monsters but more disturbing and physiologically thrilling, which was so interesting and entertaining to me. After a while I told my sister that we had seen it and although she was angry, she was surprised I hadn’t asked to sleep in her room the whole time. She soon became more lenient about the scary movies I could watch. She let me see the rest of the Saw movies as long as I didn’t come crying to her when I got scared, and I never did. Ever since then the horror movies I love the most haven’t been the big scary monster movies but more the mind boggling, twisted, and disturbing thrillers.
I waited weeks while everyone else saw it. All my friends saw it, and even some of my family. It made me so irritated that my friends, almost all my age and if not, only a year or two older, were all able to see it, but not me. I was getting upset that everyone in my grade was talking about it and going with each other to see it, and I was the odd man out. To make matters so much more vexing, my brother bothered me about it forever because he knew I had wanted to see it so bad, and he had already seen it twice. Finally, when it was out of the theaters and on DVD to rent, I was going to rent it! Only problem was, I didn’t know how to rent the movie. I was young and did not have a blockbuster card or the money to rent it.
So I waited some more. I waited until my best friend could convince his brother to rent it. At that point I was so excited. I didn’t know how we were going to get it from his brother, or where we would watch it, but I figured, this was the best shot I had. So finally, one night he took it out of the house, came over, waited for my sister to go to bed and be fast asleep, and we watched it together. It was great! I couldn’t sleep all night. I had nightmares and found that it wasn’t scary with monsters but more disturbing and physiologically thrilling, which was so interesting and entertaining to me. After a while I told my sister that we had seen it and although she was angry, she was surprised I hadn’t asked to sleep in her room the whole time. She soon became more lenient about the scary movies I could watch. She let me see the rest of the Saw movies as long as I didn’t come crying to her when I got scared, and I never did. Ever since then the horror movies I love the most haven’t been the big scary monster movies but more the mind boggling, twisted, and disturbing thrillers.
