I do not find films with serial killers scary at all. You know, slasher films like Scream. I love that stuff. Sitting on the couch with a bowl of popcorn while blood splashes across the screen.
But as soon as ghosts and that kind of thing get involved, you can scrape me off the floor.
Then I replace that bowl of popcorn with a pillow I can hold in front of my face. And that is because of my very carefully considered, absolutely bulletproof real-life theory…
Look, if some lunatic with a knife breaks into your house, you still have a chance of surviving. Not a very big chance, probably, but still a chance.
But when an ancient demon has set its sights on your human body, you might as well give up. Hands in the air, accept that it is over and let it happen. You are simply not making it out.
That is why films like The Conjuring are genuinely terrifying to me. I seek them out, I like watching them, but man… so scary!
A new one is coming out, and the trailer has just been released.
I have not watched the trailer, because I am home alone and, as I said: that stuff is terrifying.
But I am sure it will be spooky again.
I am already grabbing my little pillow…