Horror Movies

I'm sick and tired of those Korean horror movies.

Ever since The Ring, the only ghost that appear in Japanese and Korean horror movies are Sadako-lookalikes. What happened to those good, old pontianaks that fly from trees, or the vampires that can climb on walls like bats??

Anyway, in conjunction with the Lunar Seventh month, I would to talk about horror movies.

Let's start with the scariest horror movie I watched when I was young. And that is, without a doubt, The Exorcist.

Scary girl with white face, long hair and a man's voice were certainly enough to scare the wits out of me then. But it was made a little less scary because my father was telling me about how horrible that movie was and how much it had frightened him when he took my mom to watch (when they were dating). So I was more or less prepared.

Then, there was this scary show named Evil Dead or something like that. Apparently, that story's about some supernatural thing that lurks in the basement. Which constantly reminds me, that I will never get myself a place with a basement. That is, if im moving to one of those countries with big houses and basements.

So I grew up watching horror movies (thanks to mommy who's favourite family activity was going to the movies; so my bro and I had to watch all the movies that our parents watched). And I sort of don't get scared of such movies easily. In fact, I do enjoy them. I get scared while watching (but of course!) but after that, I'll laugh at how silly I was.

There is this one movie, that has frightened me in recent years. That is, Dawn of the Dead. Not sure if this movie's about the supernatural, but flesh eating zombies are my least favourite of the supernaturals. I mean, vampires are pretty cool, you know, except, they can't go sun-tanning. Ghosts are just energy while witches can be pretty cool as well. But zombies just do not fit into the cool category. And zombies that can run faster than I do certainly freak the hell out of me.

The horror movies that I hate most are those stupid Korean or Japanese ones with Sadako's hair and nails. I mean, can the props supervisor or make-up artist do something different? Somehow, in all these Korean movies, someone must wear white (and maybe look bloody), and start crawling on the floor onto a very frightened victim or that white body would start scratching her nails on the floor. They really gotta stop ruining the floor tiles.

Anyway, the reason why I started talking about Korean movies is because I was on my way home from Malaysia (from our company retreat in KL), and we get to watch these movies on the bus, and they were showing this movie titled "Ghost Train". i slept through half the show, but I believed that i didn't miss much. Cos in the end, there was no proper ending and you're sort of left to guess who was the dead and who was still alive.

Some movies that I thought were scary and had every reason to include Silent Hill, Ghost Camp, Tale of Two Sisters and some others. At least the story lines' pretty original.

If I were to write a script, I'd like to write something to do with children playing hide-and-seek and finding themselves being hidden with something (someone) else in the closet, or people at a wedding banquet when half the room suddenly turned into werewolves and start feasting on all others, or the local S-11 coffeeshop that the supernaturals visit after midnight.

What would your scary movie be like?