M.O.M and I were talking about scary movies and what we have classified as the all time most scariest movies in our day. Candyman and Exorcist reigned supreme in our picking. In comparison to today's scary movies we landed on the thought that this era's scary movies are mostly either gory or comedic. They don't generate a natural idea of something to fear. With the costumes and make-up and horrible story line or plot, there's the lacking of the reality of fearful circumstances or ideal of something to fear in real life. Both of those movies in our opinion captured the idea of something in reality to fear. They are both human mixed with truth and the possibility that this could really happen because they both display the evil side of a spiritual realm. We also have to consider the place and time in our lives when these movies came out, very young and impressionable. It's still so amazing though how human and less monstrous those movies from back in the day was so scary to me.
Aside from movies now their are other shows on TV that I have found to give a whole different meaning to the word scary. Perhaps they are scary to me because it's reality and we know reality can be scary. Shows like The First 48 Hours, it takes you on a journey of finding out what happened to the person who was murdered and how or if they find a killer. This show is real TV, there are no scripts or actors. Find Our Missing is one that searches for answers or closure on mostly black children who were kidnapped or went missing and how authorities take a different approach on finding these children opposed to when a white child is missing. Now this show hits home for me because it is a scary thought if this were to happen to me. I would die.
We had just had this discussion about the scary movies and this show Finding Our Missing. This morning at the gas station as I was pumping gas I saw a flyer for a kid in my neighborhood who went missing earlier in the week. I've never been that close to this idea before but there it was right in front of me, this scary movie is happening to a mother who's kid is missing and this family is right in my backyard. This could be my family going through this terrible ordeal. This could have been my reality and just thinking about it is scary enough.
Aside from movies now their are other shows on TV that I have found to give a whole different meaning to the word scary. Perhaps they are scary to me because it's reality and we know reality can be scary. Shows like The First 48 Hours, it takes you on a journey of finding out what happened to the person who was murdered and how or if they find a killer. This show is real TV, there are no scripts or actors. Find Our Missing is one that searches for answers or closure on mostly black children who were kidnapped or went missing and how authorities take a different approach on finding these children opposed to when a white child is missing. Now this show hits home for me because it is a scary thought if this were to happen to me. I would die.
We had just had this discussion about the scary movies and this show Finding Our Missing. This morning at the gas station as I was pumping gas I saw a flyer for a kid in my neighborhood who went missing earlier in the week. I've never been that close to this idea before but there it was right in front of me, this scary movie is happening to a mother who's kid is missing and this family is right in my backyard. This could be my family going through this terrible ordeal. This could have been my reality and just thinking about it is scary enough.
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