Random thoughts

So Shelby has been here since Saturday, and we've been having a good time. I've been to the fucking movies like 5 times though, and going again tonight. My poor wallet. =(

We saw The Orphanage with Shawn and his girlfriend a few days ago, and it made me think of a few things.

I am never, ever, ever going to see a horror movie in a theater ever again. I liked this movie. Thought it was well made. The people though. Holy shit. People talking "Oh nooooo", girls screaming, boyfriends laughing at those screams and jumps. Never again.

The other thing that got me thinking. If we didn't know it was a horror movie, how would our reactions be different? As the music started building up, and you wait for the inevitable jump out and blast of music, you start to tense. But you tense up because you know it's a horror movie. Because you know that these things are supposed to happen. Shawn's girlfriend would put her hands over her ears to muffle the loud noise that we all knew was coming when something would jump out. Without a predefined notion of this being a horror movie, would she still have done that? Would our reactions be vastly different?

I bet somewhere out there someone has done a study on this, or on the psychological and physiological effects of horror movies. Well I hope someone out there has done one because I don't have the money to fund one myself. Maybe I'll test it out by finding another horror movie that is named so inconspicuously, and show the trailer to one person, and not the other. And see how the reactions go. It's so hard to keep someone on blackout about a movie though.


Oh, and I also haven't posted pictures because I've been pretty busy, but rest assured I will as soon as I get time. I have been taking them.