Scary Movies?

Another NaBloPoMo prompt: Do you like scary movies that make you jump?

I’m not old enough to watch scary movies! I find them far too fright­en­ing, indeed, nightmare-​​inducing. Sam required that I watch The Crow with him when we’d just started dat­ing him (I can’t remem­ber why any more) and, like a fool, I didn’t refuse absolutely. Today I would, even in the early days of a rela­tion­ship. I too eas­ily sus­pend my disbelief.

But then, i can’t watch many very vio­lent things, either. They’re too upset­ting for me. The more real­is­tic vio­lence is, the more fright­en­ing it is. I can’t under­stand why any­one else would want to watch such things, either, but I accept that they don’t touch some peo­ple as deeply as they do me. I can watch foren­sics shows, but the vio­lence is usu­ally over by the time those shows start. The main char­ac­ters recon­struct the crimes, but the viewer isn’t usu­ally sub­jected to the actual crime occur­ring, hap­pily. That lets me look at them as puzzles.