how did it come to this?
when i was young, i watched IT, an adaptation of stephen king's novel with the same title, in the confines of my dark living room with my auntie(it was late night after all). now years later, the movie still remains as one of the best i've ever watched. the show not only plays with your stomach(as most horror flicks do only now), but with your mind as well. even now i could remember a terrified me, huddled next to my equally if not more terrified auntie, trying to sleep after the show.
sure, the whole concept about killer clowns with huge appetites sound silly now, but it still is one the most horrifying movies i've ever watched. the introduction to the movie, which showed a boy, playing with paper boats in the rain near the drain where the clown hides, resulting, was unsettling. not with the fact that one has fallen prey to the clown - there wasn't much of killer-clown sequences - but with the way the clown taunted the kid behind the drain grates(if i can remember something like that for such a long time..it had to mean something!). there was a rhyme of some kind, which the clown recited everytime he appears(or wadeva)..and honestly that was scary. shall try to find that rhyme. anyways, from what i can remember, somebody found out he's dead, then it's cut to the funeral scene, where someone leaves the photo album of the brothers open - to the portrait of the dead one. then suddenly blood was oozing all over the photo. whoa. the show was actually about evil in the form of the clown, and occasionally in the shape of the person's worst fears.
i also actually thought the bathroom scene where one of the guys killed himself rather than to go back again, then splays "IT" with blood on the tile freakish.
i guess that was one show that set my standards to horror flicks. there wasn't much movies after that that i actually thought was really scary, especially recent ones, not with all the blood and gore injected to suit the teens nowadays. not even exorcist..i kinda thought that show was lame, but what the heck. maybe it's because i'm grown(IT doesn't seem so scary now that i watch it again), or it might be because films now just don't cut it. we shall see.
meanwhile, am finding some horror flicks to scare, enjoy or to laugh at to pass some time. any suggestions?
