Irrational childhood fears

[Shirley]

<<some snippage>>
 Iggy here:
I can deal with movies like Alien and Deep Blue Sea MUCH better than
> I can handle films like Seven, or Silence of the Lambs.  (I still 
refuse to
> watch the latter of the two.)  The more plausible I see something 
as being,
> the worse it effects me...

now Shirley:
Yes, that's what gets to me, too.  And I had the same issue with both 
of those movies.  [And, oddly enough, the book, Salem's Lot, by 
Stephen King, somehow did that to me, as well (but maybe I just have 
a vampire fear-thing, since the movie that scared me when I was a 
kid).]  There have been several movies that I have chosen not to see 
because I think I'll just identify with it too much to really get 
enjoyment out of it.  I had *no* desire to see that Hannibal movie a 
couple of years ago.... ick!

Iggy again:
> 
> As for RotK... as I have yet to actually read LotR, I don't get the
> reference.  (Although I am planning on reading it soon.)  My step-
son has a
> copy of the first movie on DVD, and I've only gotten the chance to 
watch
> about half of it.  I haven't really gotten a chance to watch any of 
the rest
> of the story...I know the main storyline, but that's mostly from 
the old
> cartoon movies...

Shirley:  I had to think about this one a little while, June, but 
then I remembered.  Wondering how they'll do that on the big 
screen.....  Iggy, don't worry about it, but do read the books before 
you see the movies, if you can; my husband has never read them and 
had trouble keeping track of stuff in both the first two movies.  I, 
on the other hand, absolutely *loved* them.  And don't get me started 
on Aragorn - with him I could watch paint dry.....

Iggy again: 
> BTW: Speaking of bugs in movies, and scary parts of said movies... 
My
> daughter and I are watching The Mummy Returns even as I write this, 
and it's
> the scene near the beginning where the flesh eating scarabs burst 
out of the
> ground at the dig site.  It's making me recall my reaction when I 
saw the
> first movie in the theatre with a few friends.  For the rest of the 
movie,
> since you see the first swarm of scarabs, none of us put our feet 
on the
> floor until the credits began to roll.  (And even then, it was with 
a great
> deal of trepidation.)
> 
> 
> Iggy McSnurd

Shirley:  I, too, have had this happen.  Point in fact:  we had this 
huge snake on our front sidewalk several years ago.  It was just 
peacefully sunning itself, but I couldn't figure out what kind it was 
and ended up calling some snake-rescue guy to come get it (turned out 
it was, IIRC, a Mississippi mud-snout, or something like that, but I 
digress).  Anyway, it was weeks before I could walk outside our house 
without my ankles getting all tingly, clearly anticipating a snake to 
rub against them, or something.

Shirley, who probably won't see Kill Bill, either, because that 
hypodermic needle scene in Pulp Fiction totally squicks her out, who 
really is happily married (but, let's face it, Aragorn is dead 
sexy!), and who generally doesn't have an irrational fear of snakes 
but evidently is prone to the creepy-crawlies in the right(wrong?) 
situations... ;-)