{"id":25125,"date":"2014-10-20T07:04:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T11:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=25125"},"modified":"2014-10-20T07:04:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T11:04:06","slug":"ooh-scary-scary-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/10\/20\/ooh-scary-scary-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ooh, Scary Scary: Movies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I asked you about the <a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/10\/13\/oooh-scary-scary-books\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>scariest books you&#8217;ve ever read<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week? It&#8217;s time to talk about movies.<\/p>\n<p>So, hit the comments, and let us all know: what are the scariest movies you&#8217;ve ever seen? (They don&#8217;t have to be horror, explicitly &#8212; though certainly we want some of those in there.) Why did it freak you out? Was it just one scene? The whole film? Something deeper and darker?<\/p>\n<p>A film that scared me early on was\u00a0<strong>The Shining<\/strong>, less because of it&#8217;s overt fright factor. More because of it&#8217;s slow, freaky creep. I had never seen a film like it. And even now, not many horror films are willing to just be slow and strange for their (long) duration. (If I watch it now, I sometimes think it&#8217;s a bit funny &#8212; &#8220;Oh, ha ha, look at that hilarious Blowjob Koala Man! Look, Shelley Duvall runs like an embarrassed sandpiper. Oh, Jack Nicholson, you murderous ghost-talking scamp.) If you want a film that\u00a0<em>disturbs\u00a0<\/em>me these days &#8212; look no further than\u00a0<strong>Requiem for a Dream<\/strong>, whose final act is so harrowing even thinking about it gives me the shivering shits.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hear it from you.<\/p>\n<p>Scary, freaky, disturbing movies.<\/p>\n<p>GO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I asked you about the scariest books you&#8217;ve ever read. This week? It&#8217;s time to talk about movies. So, hit the comments, and let us all know: what are the scariest movies you&#8217;ve ever seen? (They don&#8217;t have to be horror, explicitly &#8212; though certainly we want some of those in there.) Why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-6xf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25126,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25125\/revisions\/25126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}