You may think I’ve been living under a rock for admitting this, but until last night I had never seen “The Shining”. Mike and I have been been lining up a bunch of horror flicks on our Netflix queue leading up to Halloween. I really enjoyed the movie, and I’m glad that I finally agreed to watch it. Contrary to what you might believe, I don’t consider myself a true horror fan. With such a love for Halloween, you’d think I’d be all over that… Actually, let me rephrase that; now that I’ve had a chance to think about this a little, I do like horror movies. I’m just very selective about the ones I agree to watch and someone usually has to coerce me into watching them. You see, I don’t like getting TOO scared, so I avoid the ones that seem over-the-top. But I’ve seen the Exorcist, and that scared me out of my mind, so there goes that theory! Anyway, roll the clip:
I’m not going to go into a long interpretation of the movie, because, quite frankly, it’s already been done. But I will say that we sat around talking about it for quite a while after it was over — the sign of a good movie. I was definitely scared watching it; on more than one occasion I reached out a clammy hand to grab onto Mike. However it did not scare me nearly as much as the Exorcist! I’m looking forward to getting the next movie on the Netflix list, but I’ll save that for another day. ;)
