The Only Horror Fan in the House
by Wayne
(TS)
Does anyone share a house with a non- horror family? No one gets it here, and I don't get why not?
I married a great lady and she has 2 kids living at home. The daughter is 17 and sometimes I think that she sees it as EVIL. She'll look at some tense movies but will cover her ears, which is cute I guess… and it gives me something to rib her about. My step-son is twelve and he's just petrified. Now, I'm not putting in The Exorcist around him but this kid tenses up at Searching For Bobby Fischer! OK, that's an exaggeration but you get the point. My wife, bless her, will sometimes actually sit and watch a Romero Dead movie with me but she obviously isn't into it. Now she can like Sixth Sense and that kind of thing, but Dead Alive? Friday the 13th? No. She wants to watch The General's Daughter or Man on Fire, which have their qualities but... not horror.
The best thing I can do is stay up very late on weekends to get my horror fix. I think horror movies are far less bad influences on kids than nervous parents cause... the scenarios in horror aren’t plausible. CSI on TV is worse to me. I have to have escapism.
Any suggestions on how I can get my horror fix at any time other than 3 am?
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