It’s that time of year again. Pumpkins are for sale at the local store, costume shops are popping up on every street corner and there is candy corn a plenty. Halloween is coming soon and that means it’s time for a good horror flick. It got me thinking. What exactly is a classic horror film? Is it the ones with blood and gore, like Saw? Or maybe, it’s the ones that scare you with the unknown, like The Blair Witch Project. For me, the scariest movies are the physiological ones, the ones that totally played with your mind. The old Twilight Zones scare the dickens out of me. Remember that episode where the guy on the plane saw a creature crouching on the wing? I still get shivers whenever I fly.

My husband, on the other hand, loves the blood and guts. I will be sitting there, with my hands over my eyes, while he is just drinking it in, a twisted smile on his face.

“Did you see where he just stuck that knife?” he asks.

“Gawh, no,” I respond, as I peek out between my fingers. “This is so wrong.”

“How can this gross you out? You used to be a paramedic?”

“True, but I never had to treat a patient who had his head squeezed like a grape after a hatchet was taken to him.” I cringe as another blood-curdling scream erupts from the TV speakers. “How can you watch this?”

My better half shoots an incredulous look. “This is a classic. How can you not watch it?”

“I am watching it.”

He pulls my hands away from my face and I squeak in fear as I slap them back in place. “Yes, you’re really watching it there?” he snorts.

“Leave me alone or else I’ll make you watch a chick flick.”

“Now that’s a scary movie.” He shudders.

So, here is my question to all of you. What is you favorite horror flick and why? Are you like my DH and like the slasher films? Or are you like me, and enjoy the ones that are more subtle?

-Stephani