Morgan: Real Fear Relived

Princess Bride was such a great movie, with excellent writing. How can we ever forget the Cliffs of Insanity or Rodents of Unusual Size. I really loved the "bad guys" Fezzik, Vizzini and the sword fighting Inigo Montoya. Its hard to believe that movie is 20 years old and still delivers every time I watch it.

This weekend I took my wife and son to the movies for her birthday...we decided to see a horror flick based off of a graphic novel, 30 Days of Night I'm not a big fan of scary movies, well because I get scared. This movie was based in Pt Barrow, Alaska and the town was preparing for their annual 30 days of night. Unaware that a whole posse full of zombie like vampires was about dine on them. Without spoiling the movie lets just say cut off from civilization the town gets devoured except for a handful of survivors. I was nervous and tense through out the movie and my wife was clutching my arm and hand the whole time, she claimed she was cold.
At the conclusion we drove home and critiqued the movie on the way home as we usually do. It was then that my wife revealed how scared she really was. She had even contemplated walking out of the theater. She said she was clutching my hand out of fear and wanted to know what was wrong with her. Normally she has enjoyed horror movies, yet this movie scared her so much, and she was wondering why? Was it because she was getting older? Was the Movie really that scary?
I told her I thought it was the hopelessness of the (movie) situation and how it may have been difficult for her because she's always trying to protect her family, and the characters could not.
Not to mention Pt Barrow has got to be the most depressing place in the world to live.

She started remembering her harrowing experiences in 1980 trying to escape Vietnam aboard a coal freighter. She described how they were put into a 12 foot cargo hold with 300 others. There was a total of 5,000 people on the the ship and as soon as they got off the coast, the UN informed them to return to Vietnam, they would not be accepting refugees from Vietnam anymore. They were stuck, no one wanted them. They had nowhere to go. Living conditions worsened daily, she described how she had to climb out of the hold to get 4 ounces of dirty water every three days. While she would be climbing up the ladder people would be climbing down. Chaos reigned. People started dying from dehydration and starvation. Every time someone would die they would ring the ships bell and dump the body overseas. She still considers herself lucky.

Sorry I know I have talked about this before. I guess we wont be going to any more horror movies for a while...