Mutants

Mutants.......

Just plainly freak me the fuck out. Ever since I was young and saw the movie "Hills Have Eyes" in theaters, I was petrified of body mutation. The movie was very graphic if you have not seen it, beware, because it might lead to a few nightmares. I would definitely recommend it as one to watch tonight on Halloween.

By pointing out what kind of body that freaked me out the most, I was able to ask myself WHY it has a negative appeal towards me. Simply enough, I can say that I am used to normal looking people, with equally proportionated bodies. I am surrounded by people that look like me, which puts me in an peaceful state of mind.

However, if you put someone with either a mutated face of body, I just feel extremely uncomfortable because it goes against what I am used to seeing. I don't have anything against people that have mutated bodies, they just freak me out. He or she could be the nicest person on Earth, but still I will be equally enough uncomfortable around them.

Happy Halloween!
- Jake

Abominable Snowman From Rudolph

One thing that I'm scared of is the Abominable Snowman from Rudolph. When I was younger, I couldn't watch this movie because I was so afraid of him. In the movie he was introduced as the scary bad guy at first, and I don't think I ever got past that point in the movie when I first watched it. Obviously he's pretty creepy looking, with his big teeth and the fact that he was much bigger and more threatening than all of the other characters in the movie. I think I also was a little freaked out by the way he moved, which had more to do with the animation, but his jerky body movements were especially frightening to me. By now I have watched the full movie, and I understand that he's not supposed to be scary and he's just misunderstood, but if I'm bing honest I would say that he actually still freaks me out a little bit.

Cops

So I had a little trouble with finding something for this. Of course I am afraid of things, but these are more abstract things like people paying attention to me or making a fool of myself. As far a a concrete body, this is the best I could come up with.

I am am not so much scared of cops as in run away screaming but I simply don't like them. This goes for police officers, state troopers, even campus security people.  Whenever I see a cop, pass one in my car, or whatever, I stare them down and watch their every movement.  I watch them like a hawk, get defensive and even are angry at them for no reason.  

I think that this boils down to the fact that they can cause so much trouble.  They could do this simply because they are having a bad day.  There are so many things that a cop could pull you over for or give you a ticket that are just bullshit.  Like look at the clip art, CLIP ART, he has his hand on his gun and I did absolutely NOTHING.  Another part of this is that they are suppose to be there to protect us and then they could just cause problems for you.

The Tooth Fairy

Okay, this might seem a little childish, but this was the first Horror movie I ever saw. My older sister, who enjoyed my terror, forced me to watch this when I was 8. I couldn't sit through the film, and was terrified of the Tooth Fairy (the villain of the film) for years. I wouldn't let my mom pull my teeth out after that, and had to go to the dentist to have them removed. 

In an effort to get over this childhood terror, of what I now know is a really campy movie, I tried to watch it again this year with my friends. I got to the first action scene before I threw a pillow at the TV and ran to my room. I know the graphics are bad, and the story is crap, but for some reason that childhood terror of this movie stays with me. 

I mean, it's an old woman in a mask who kills children for "peeking" when she comes to take their teeth. HOW MESSED UP IS THAT? Then there's this child in danger in the movie, and I always about faint when the kid is in trouble. The adults; don't really care, children or pets; I die. 

THIS. MOVIE. TERRIFIES. ME.

On a plus side, I have forever sworn off Horror movies. 

I don't think I've ever seen one all the way through, except for campy ones like "Tucker and Dale VS Evil". I don't know, man. I just can't handle the creepy stuff.

Being Tickled

I absolutely CAN NOT stand being tickled. I know that being tickled isn't something that anyone necessarily enjoys, but for me if anyone tries to tickle me i freak out. I am petrified of being tickled. I understand that this is a bit bizarre in comparison to the normal "clowns, spiders or heights" fears, and I don't know where this weird fear even came from or when it began! Perhaps it was from growing up with two older brothers who thought it was funny to pin me down and tickle me. I mean after all you're laughing... that means you like it, right?! WRONG! I think what scares me most is that people think that you're enjoying it or think you think it's funny because you're laughing. When in reality there is NOTHING you can do to stop yourself from it. When you're being tickled you are basically completely helpless and there is nothing that you can really do besides flail and scream for them to stop. Gah. Never tickle people. It's the worst and I hate it.

Happy Halloween!

Being a fan of Harry Potter since a young age I have been exposed to a lot of scary bodies that were made for the film. But low and behold, the scariest of all was always good ol' Voldy. I remember when the movies hadn't come out yet so I had to use my imagination and the header picture drawn at the beginning of each chapter to get a grasp on what the characters looked like. I had always imagined him to be frightening, but when I saw him up on the screen for the first time I got the heeby jeebies. With the nose of a snake, the teeth of a great white and the sunken eyes like a ghost, how could anyone not be scared (excuse my language) shitless? However, now that I am grown up (a little) I now know that it is just all done with prosthetics and makeup. Now I am really fascinated by his face--because I want to learn how to do this and pursue a career in stage makeup-- and how they got it to look the way it does. I think it scared me as a child because it was unknown to me. I had never seen anything like it and that made it really difficult to process in my little baby brain exactly what Voldemort was. I was also scared of him because WOW he looked so real. How can something so scary be so real? Now I look back and think WOW he DOES look so real, and that is absolutely fascinating that now we can transform a human into looking the way he does. Good job guys, props to the makeup crew on HP!

E.T.

E.T.  is still the scariest movie character I have ever seen. Even just searching for a picture has creeped me out.  From the moment I first saw the movie, hiding outside my parents door, I have been permanently creeped out. I was very young, barely 6, the first time I saw E.T.. I was not supposed to be watching it, but of course I decided to just hide and do it anyway. I guess this is the karma. E.T. is the creepiest creature of all time. His fingers are so long and spindly, his voice sends shivers down my spine, and just thinking about his face makes me cringe. This fear of E.T. expands to not just his character, but to many things in relation to him.
For instance, often at the hospital there are machines that they attach to your finger to monitor your blood pressure. When you're a child, the doctors love to call these "E.T. monitors". As if that is supposed to make me feel better. Of course, it instead made me believe I was going to turn into E.T. and caused complete hysterics as a child. Another problem is tunnels. Specifically, white construction tunnels, such as the one that was on UVM campus for a few months earlier this year. This tunnel was very similar to the one in E.T. As ridiculous as it sounds, I took a longer way at night to walk back from class to avoid even going by this tunnel.

I think that my fear of E.T. stems from a few factors. One, it was something I was not allowed to watch. This automatically puts the idea in my mind that it will be scary, because at that time in my life not age appropriate equalled scary. Next, E.T. was probably the first somewhat scary movie I had seen where there were also real people in it ( not a cartoon). As a child, I assumed that this meant that there was a very real chance that E.T. could come to my house next. Finally, he's just so weird looking. People always talk about how cute and nice E.T. is. No. He's a creepy and terrifying alien.

I have not seen E.T. in a very long time. There is a chance that I could see past E.T.'s creepiest and give him some sympathy, but I don't think it's worth making me remember more of the movie and scaring me even more.