Journal 23

I have never really been into scary movies a whole lot.  I did not see the point of getting creeped out and not being able to sleep.  This year however, I started to watch more and more scary movies.  They were not the scariest movies out there, but they were still considered scary.  The first one that I think about it When a Stranger Calls.  What made it scary was the suspense of it.  You knew someting bad was going to happen, you just did not know when.  It kept you on the edge of the chair.  The other part about the movie that made it scary was the fact that you knew more than what the actress knew.  You knew that a bad guy was in the house and that it was not just your imgagination.  Knowing this information, makes you want to tell the actress what to do and when to do it, thinking that it would actually help.

My whole life, I have been interested in scary/mysterious books.  I classify them as scary because when I was younger, I wanted to hide when I slept because I thought something like that would happen to me.  I loved the Boxcar children books.  They were probably my favorite books of all time.  I stopped reading them when I was in third grade, but they were the only books that I read.  What made them scary was that things that are classified as bad, were happening in the world.  It was like my introduction to murderer, stealing, and everything else.  They were also very suspensful, which made you want to keep reading them.  I think that is a quality of not only a book, but a scary book that makes it more interesting and better.  I then grew out of those books and went into the Hardy Boy books.  They were a lot like the Boxcar children except that they were for a older audience.