Nothing in this post sounds as scary as anything you'll see in a movie. I realize that my experiences were mild to say the least but I'm not complaining. If you read this and you're expecting something like The Exorcist or Demon House you'll be disappointed. Just because I didn't have those experiences though doesn't mean that what I did experience was any less frightening to me. When I was about 8 years old, my family moved into what I have come to call the "Bad House". The house was bad for a number of reasons. It was a tumultuous time for both me and my family in all ways possible. It was also one of the scariest times of my life. Before I continue further, a general description of the layout of the house with some room descriptions based off of how my parents labeled rooms. It is a one story, three bedroom two bathroom house. There is a good-sized front and back yard. When I lived there there was a solid ...
So I was hanging out at my buddies' house watching Geostorm . If you are unaware of what movie I am referring to, feel free to refer to my movie blog for further information. Geostorm stars Gerard Butler as a scientist who is trying to save the world. So the middle girl of my friends' their twelve-year-old is intently watching the movie. At one time she sits up a little straighter and asks, "Who is that?" Gerard Butler's face happened to be the most prominent on the screen at that moment. I respond, "That's Gerard Butler." "What's he been in?" She asks. "Lots of things." I reply and my mind starts to race as I try to imagine what she could have seen him in considering that quite a few of his well known films are rated R. Without missing a beat, her father, who is also watching the movie, pipes up. "He's in The Phantom of the Opera . He's the Phantom." "Oh." She responds. A...