When I was growing up, my mother played bridge some Friday and Saturday nights and my father, brothers and I would often watch scary movies on TV (like anything running on Shock Theatre). My brothers were older and soon it was just my dad and I watching.
Lights out, of course.
One of my dad's favorite "enhancers" was to say he was going to the kitchen to get something to drink or whatever. Soon I'd forgotten he was even gone. He'd then crawl up behind my chair, and at just the right time, his arm would come over the top and he'd scare the carp out of me. I'd jump and then laugh and we'd settle down to watching more.
But my wife and two daughters have zero interest in scary movies. Annabelle came out recently and I know that no movies of this genre will ever really be highly rated but the wife just laughed at the suggestion of going to this movie.
In fact, my older daughter is now 24 and whenever I bring up the idea of watching a horror flick she recalls the time we were watching Jaws (how scary it THAT?) and after returning from the kitchen I snuck up behind her chair and pretended I was a shark. She screamed, then cried, and the wife yelled at me.
I apologized and explained that grandpa used to scare me just like that, and I loved it. I told her I shouldn't have assumed she'd like it. She said she understood and told me to try scaring her again sometime in the future.
So that night after she got ready for bed she was coming around the corner about to go down the stairs while I was about to round the same corner going up the stairs.
My wife was changing our younger daughter's diaper just a few feet from the bottom of the stairs.
So anyway the older daughter is rounding the top of the stairs and I said "boo." That was it, "boo." And she SCREAMED so loud her sister (having her diaper changed by wife) activated all bodily functions. That was I think the only time in my life I ever heard my wife use that kind of language.
So I once again apologized and never again said "boo."
Girls are not boys.
They keep making scary movies, so someone besides me has to be watching them. Anyone else here like this genre?