Today is Friday the 13th!!
Only couple of times a year, day 13th falls on the friday of the week. This year, it already fell one time in April and today is the last one for this year. Whenever that happens, you hear lot of superstitions, urban legends, phobia's and lot of other horror stories. Last year we heared about 6-6-2006(666) phobia created around the world. We were worried about my wife giving birth on that day but fortunately not.
This Friday 13th and 666(triple six) phobia whirls around among the people is really weird if you think in the practical sense. They talk about being careful as it unlucky day or bad luck haunts on you at that day and so forth. I don't know whether its true to believe or not but whenever I hear about friday 13th, it reminds me of the movie "Friday the 13th".
It brings back memories of good old days when I used to be so scared especially after watching the horror movies. Getting scared voluntarily, never stopped me watching those evil, horror movies. I got so addicted at times watching these horror movies whether or not I can sleep that night or go to the bathroom in the pitch dark. I don't know why?! May be I like to be horrified!!
I guess I am cursed to watch horror movies after my first exposure to the all time favorite movie, "THE EVIL DEATH". I watched when I was like 10-11 years old. When you are that young, the horrification totally get on to you. It was horror cum suspense movie which freezes your bone to chill and slithers every one of it in the body every time a shocking scene rolls around. I can still remember it so fresh.
The movie was a total hit. I can vaguely remember the story. There were like 5 friends takes trip to woods and stays at an abandoned house. They encounter all sorts of horror things in that the place one at time and get killed one by one. The movies rolls very slowly revolving around that house fully with some shocking and exhilarating scenes, starting the horrification process first time inside me.
Life changed after that movie. I got immersed into the horror factor and I couldn't able to go alone anywhere especially in the dark. Fear of darkness just glued on to me creating a mental block. I can still feel that block at times to this day. It just hangs in there in my closet. There are lots of sequel to that movie, none of 'em really made a great impact to the audience except Part I and II.
Next one which took on the horror height was "The Omen", another great horror & suspense movie. The story plot is like a kid who has the birthmark "666" (the sign for child of Satan) tries to make the presence in this world opposing Christianity by killing every body who gets to know about his Satanic character. This movie was accolades for its originality and vulgarity to the characters. It had a good story line and nice direction.
"The Exorcist" is another famous and more talked about horror movie at that time. But it failed to impress me as one. With some horror devil characters, its just not really my type of horror movie I guess. I heard some weird stories about the filming of this movie in local theater at chennai. They advertised like whoever watches this movie alone in the theatre can win prizes. Few seems to have taken that risk watching it alone to experience the thrill. Some couldn't take it and close to get an heart attack. Also there are news that many had died watching that movie in a heart attack in other countries.
After that, there were series of movies on evil and horror plot with different versions of vampire and Satan's. Recently like 3years back, I watched a movie named "THE RING". Its was a remake of a Japanese movie. I should say it revitalized the horrification and totally gave a different outlook of the horror movies. Its a movie about taking revenge in a evil way coming out of the TV sets thru the video tape. It gets spread by the video tape. Its a totally wierd one. You should watch it to feel it.
I went to see this movie, the day before my half marathon race and my roommates where out of station. That night, I couldn't sleep along after watching the movie. I tried to sleep with lights and nothing worked. I might got only 2-3 hours of sleep. With little amount of rest, I couldn't run the race effectively and I failed to meet my expected time limit. It always reminds of that horrific day.
Last but not least, Friday the 13th which is not exactly an evil horror but an entertaining slasher/thriller. There were lots of parts to this movie. I don't remember exactly which part I happened to watch. It had a good plot to about taking a revenge against people and lot of them getting killed in the camp ground. It started off the race of many more thrillers like Valentine, Silence of the Lambs etc.,
Evil and Horror goes together and they are meant to scare you!! I don't think there is anything wrong to get scared. So I feel its ok to be scared at this age too.
After all humans are frone to horrification!!
