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12-20-2011, 12:48 AM
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Awkward Horror-fan moments
Let me explain.
I'm in my early-twenties, recently graduated from university, unemployed (though that may change tomorrow, fingers crossed) and in the abolute worst period for buying a house. In short, I live with my parents (as well as one of my sisters). My parents know I like horror movies, but it's an interest they don't share (Same with science-fiction films). My mum's seen a few, and doesn't mind them, my dad just doesn't like them. He, and my mum, both like American Werewolf In London...but that's about it. So, this morning, I get up, go downstairs and put on my DVD of House By The Cemetery. My dad walks in just as Ania Pieroni has her head cut off and sees the blood spurt all over. I swear to god, for a moment, he was stunned. He laughed it off and I did explain it was a Video Nasty so it's pretty violent, even so it felt awkward. Anyone else have a moment like this? 
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12-20-2011, 02:14 AM
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Sure, and if I get Caligula or Ilsa for Christmas, I'll have to hide them before my parents arrive for dinner.:D
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12-20-2011, 05:57 AM
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Two moments I can think of:
High school. Watching From Dusk 'Til Dawn with friends. Dad walked in during Cheech's speech: All right, pussy, pussy, pussy! Come on in pussy lovers! Here at the Titty Twister we're slashing pussy in half! Give us an offer on our vast selection of pussy, this is a pussy blow out! All right, we got white pussy, black pussy, Spanish pussy, yellow pussy, we got hot pussy, cold pussy, we got wet pussy, we got smelly pussy, we got hairy pussy, bloody pussy, we got snappin' pussy, we got silk pussy, velvet pussy, Naugahyde pussy, we even got horse pussy, dog pussy, chicken pussy! Come on, you want pussy, come on in, pussy lovers! If we don't got it, you don't want it! Come on in, pussy lovers! ... That was pretty awkward... And then again... High school. Watching I Spit On Your Grave with a friend. Dad walked in on the rape scene... And quickly walked out...
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12-20-2011, 07:16 AM
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Yeah when I was young I recorded Ghoulies 3 off the tv-somehow my parents saw it and said they would only let me watch it if they watched it with me and could fast forward the bits they didn't want me to see-awkward doesn't cover how bad this was.. In the end one night when they were at the pub I managed to find the tape and watched the bits they fast forwarded anyway lol. Thank goodness I left home at 18 just when I was getting into more serious horror.
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12-20-2011, 04:28 PM
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Brought The Devil's Experiment round to a friend's and preceded to get REAL stoned. Watched it and that was all good then some other people rocked round so my friend had to show them the needle vs eyeball scene. I just felt really uncomfortable and thought they would be thinking I was a pretty sick fucking dude. That film hasn't sat quite right with me ever since and it really had me questioning why I dabble with the extreme side of cinema. But yeah I was just high and caught the fear and wasn't thinking right. To this day I watch the more graphic stuff alone and save smoking bongs for more lightweight viewing :D
One thing I find awkward at times is explaining why I have action figures. People find it a bit weird a grown man with toys haha... but maybe that's more a awkward "being a fucking geek" moment. I was at a thrift store awhile back and the lady behind the counter took offence to the Maniac shirt I used to have. Pretty fucked up to have someone judging your morality over a t-shirt. Caught a few dirty looks when I've worn a horror shirts... strikes me as kinda strange it bothers people so much. Never felt awkward when there was violence in the film I was watching with/around my parents (most of the stuff I was watching just had cartoonish gore nothing like Mordum etc) but sex was a completely different story. That would make me feel really embarrassed :o
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12-20-2011, 05:25 PM
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12-21-2011, 02:30 PM
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Anyway - I don't really understand snap judgment like that. It's a friggin' t-shirt. Mind you, if say I was wearing said t-shirt to a black tie formal event, sure, I get that, but when I'm lounging around and just doing my thing, don't give me looks for what I'm wearing. People are so shallow. Same issue that we've discussed before with tattoos. Grrrr. ... Anyway, back to the topic at hand... Being a die-hard horror fan, I have a hard time having a casual conversation with the casual horror viewer at, say, work or somewhere like that... The other day at work in a conference room with about 10 people and I got the question, "What's the scariest horror movie you've ever seen?" Naturally, as a dorky horror fan I can never "just" answer that question point blank... I responded with: "Well, what do you mean? Like suspenseful scary? Or incredibly disturbing?" Or course they said, "Incredibly disturbing," to which I answered, "Martyrs." Of course, everyone in the room started looking up the movie Martyrs, reading reviews, looking at images, and then just looked at me... horrified. Yep, that was kinda awkward. A couple of days later one of the girls said that I "gave her nightmares" just by inspiring her to look it up. Sigh. This is why I'm a member of a board like this one - Can't do casual horror conversations anymore.
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12-21-2011, 03:17 PM
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One time I didn't do the research and took my mom to see that creepy Robin Williams movie, "One Hour Photo", where he voyouristically stalks a family by developing their films.
Don't ask me how I ended up at that movie. Other than my own stupidity, I recall I confused it with another movie. Also, this was back when in 2002 and high speed internet wasn't as prevelent. We sure as shit didn't have it, which made looking up movie info a little bit of a pain.
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