In honor of my favorite month, October, I thought I would do a series of blog posts about the creepy stuff that influenced me growing up!! This is a four part series on this blog, with one post a week. Today is a list of all the movies and television shows that influenced my taste in scary things. The next three will be specific episodes from each of the shows listed. I'm so excited!! And I would love to hear from YOU. If you like spooky things, what sorts of movies or TV shows influenced your taste? Or books? Please let me know in the comments!!
- Are You Afraid of the Dark?
- A kid's horror anthology show from the 90's. Kids sitting around a campfire telling scary stories at midnight. The Midnight Society. Anyone remember this? I LOVED this one!! And there were some genuinely scary stories told.
- Goosebumps
- This was more popular than "Are You Afraid of the Dark?". Based on R. L. Stine's children's book series. I liked this one, and some episodes scared the crap out of me and influenced what I like in spooky things, but I was more of an "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" girl.
- So Weird
- A Disney show from the very early 2000's. For a girl who loved weird things, this show was amazing. I still preferred Fi over Annie. Sorry.
- Watcher in the Woods
- This movie came out on the 80's. I adored it, and it also scared me. Many of my favorite things seem to do that. I was also recently made aware it could be considered Gothic Horror. Which I think is the genre I may enjoy most.
- The Sixth Sense
- The classic M. Night Shyamalan movie with the twist that shocked the world. Also from the 90's. 1999. One of my favorites. And it got pretty emotional, too. Psychological Horror is very much my thing. This one and The Others scared my cousins senseless. They were well versed in slasher movies by the time they watched these two with me at 13 years old, which is what led me to believe that Psychological Horror is scarier than Slasher movies.
- The Others
- I also just realized that this has many of the hallmarks of Gothic Horror. This one is from 2001. I adore this movie. It utterly scared the shit out of me when I first saw it. I wonder if I would see the twist coming now... But at 13, absolutely not.
- War of the Worlds
- I loved the 2005 War of the Worlds. It honestly terrified me. I was 14 when I saw it at the theatre. When I was waiting for someone to unlock our door, a car horn went off and scared the daylights out of me. If you've seen the film, you will understand why.
- Signs
- Another M. Night Shyamalan movie. I loved this movie. It had several scenes that freaked me out but it is one of my favorites. (That is a theme here: my favorites often scared the crap out of me.) I also really liked the philosophical and theological lean the movie had. There were a lot of emotional moments, too. Definitely a few jump scares in there, as well.
- The Village
- I think this movie was not marketed well at all. It was supposed to be the scariest movie of the year, and I did not think it was nearly as scary as it was made out to be; which is where I think a lot of the negative reviews came from. Personally, I love this movie. It was a unique plot, good atmosphere, great score, a sort of quiet dread, and it did have a couple of jump scares.
Let me know your favorite scary movies and shows!! Especially ones from when you were a kid and teenager; ones that really influenced what you love in a spooky story!!
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