A 12-yearold is braver than this chicken
Let’s make one thing clear: I haven’t seen the movie about the “clown” with the sharp teeth and hungry belly. Nope. I refused to see the 1990 miniseries based on Stephen King’s novel
“IT” and I won’t be seeing the new movie with that same name playing in theaters now.
My husband, on the other hand, couldn’t wait to see it and told me all about IT.
His lightweight description of kids being eaten alive was enough to make me wonder if the clown living in our sewer is really as friendly as he claims to be.
He is offering bacon and new shoes. How can he not be legit?
I know what I am when it comes to horror movies and haunted houses. A big chicken. Wimp. Scaredy cat. This is nothing new. When I was 6 or 7, all my older brother and cousins had to do was say “redrum” to send me running.
Those jerks even wrote it on the bathroom mirror in red lipstick: REDRUM.
At the point they scared the bejesus outta me, I had not seen the movie version of Stephen King’s “The Shining.”
I did not realize until college when I mustered the strength to actually watch that classic film that “redrum is “murder” spelled backwards. I know… what?!? “The Shining” freaked me out that day and a sudden, still-mysterious bang on the door made my friend and I leap from our seats.
I focus my eyes on my finger when things get too jumpy in even the semiscary movies I am forced to see.
I don’t like things coming for me or anyone else.
Vampires suck and so do clowns with sharp teeth and hungry bellies.
Happy is a far better emotion than fear.
A Facebook friend started an interesting debate with a post about her sixth-grader wanting to see the movie.
According to this friend’s kid, all the kids in his class were allowed to see “IT.”
People weighed in on what age is appropriate for kids to see such horror.
It seems a lot of parents did not have that debate.
My husband says he saw kids as young as 6 or 7 in the screening of “IT” he attended.
To be certain, an 11 or 12-year-old horror fan is far braver than me, but a 6-year-old? Come on.
They don’t even know redrum is murder spelled backwards.