Thursday, April 17, 2008

I know what you did a bunch of summers ago.

Your pedicure is about to get effed up hard, sweetcheeks.



That last post sparked my memory a bit and reminded me that there was another time in my life when fright was in fashion. In high school a small group of friends and I became obsessed with renting the worst (i.e. awesomest) horror movies on the Blockbuster shelves.

We invented this game where we made each member of our group a character in the movie, (I particularly loved being the dumb blonde slut.) and relished as each character got picked off in some over-the-top, farcical manner, hoping ours made it too the finish line. We got to root for ourselves as the fat kid, the old person, the gimpy person. It really made us empathize with every walk of life. If we got killed off too early in the movie we were allowed to switch characters. I encourage you to adopt this interactive practice into your own life to experience maximum viewing pleasure of any movie. It works best with horror, but I'm sure is still fun even if your cup of tea is, like, Atonement.

And we went deep. Most of the names of the movies during this time period escape me, which is a shame because there were some real treasures in there. Of course, Piranha was a pretty unforgettable classic, but I think our crowning glory was this:

Despite what you might think, that's not my genius photoshop work. Though I wish it were.



"They love their grandchildren...well done"?? Could that tagline writer be a bigger genius? I still don't understand how a story this sophisticated and crowd-pleasing did not win an Academy Award.

So feel free to play this game yourselves and let me know how much y'all love it, too. No thanks required. I just like to give back when I can.

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