I was staying all night at her house and I wanted to watch a movie when she and her husband were deciding to go to bed.
So I asked her, "Is it really scary?" She said no.
So off to bed they went, probably 10 pm or so and I began to watch the movie alone.
The opening scenes were not scary of course, but the music, oh God, the music. It began to creep me out immediately.
I laid on the floor, close to the TV, so I could turn down the sound when it seemed to get too loud. It started out that the music was the loudest.
Of course, the storyline was fascinating and the cast, amazing.
The first time I had to quickly change the channel was when I first saw these two.
They started to freak me out.
Everytime they showed the girls, I reached up and changed the channel.
The night got later and later and I felt very alone in the house.
Between the "Danny's not here, Mrs Torrence" and the "REDRUM" I was hooked and spent the late evening jumping up to change the channel whenever the blood came streaming through the hallways.
I could not believe my own sister told me this movie was NOT scary.
To this day it's one of the best and scariest movies ever made.
The next morning when I talked to her about the show, my sister said, "Well, I got to thinking about that, I guess it's not really scary if you're watching it in the middle of the afternoon with a house full of people, probably watching it all alone at night it would be scary."
Yeah, thanks for that sis.
And here I am thirty years later watching it alone late at night. Bob went off to bed, we're in our Florida vacation home and I have my internet friends to keep me from feeling too scared and the remotes right next to me to change when it gets too scary.
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