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Dreadful Nonsense

"I've read your blog. it's really funny. you should write a column." - Jon Ronson

Last night, I stayed up most of the night thanks to starting the night watching Shaun Of The Dead on dvd.

I'll first start by saying what a brilliant film it is. It's really brilliant. It's funny, it's stupid, it's very fast paced, it's excellently cast and written and performed, and it scared the living bejaysus out of me because for some ridiculously stupid reason I didn't expect it to be scary.

Why didn't I expect it to be scary? I don't know. I'm an idiot, apparently. Before I sat down to watch it, I asked Dave, who's seen it, if it's scary. I told him to bear in mind that I found the zombies in the episode of Spaced that had zombies (I'd check for the title, but the Spaced site has imploded) quite scary. He said that, yes, in that case, it's scary. But only to pathetic ladies like me who are scared of actors with contact lenses and fake blood walking very slowly towards a camera or main character scary.

I thought I'd be brave, and distract myself during the zombie moments (surely there won't be that many of them) by looking at the zombie faces and finding all the comedians / musicians / comedy fans who agreed to be zombie extras. Once I started picking out the zombie faces of Chris Martin, Joe Cornish, Michael Smiley, Paul Putner etc, then I won't be scared, I reasoned.

I was wrong. It's a scary ass film, and contrary to what stupid beliefs you might be holding right now, there are a lot of freaking zombies in it.

In the cold light of day today, I was wondering why the hecking heck I found it scary, and even why I find horror movies in general scary. Because I do. They freak the living daylight out of me, and I can only watch them in living daylight, with the remote control in my hand, and some pillows to hide behind, and preferably someone sitting beside me telling me not to be an idiot. In college we made a short 10 minute scary movie. I was one of a core team of four people who wrote, filmed, directed, produced, and edited the film. I was there for every step of every moment of production. I still found the fucker scary watching it back. It's ridiculous that I'm so suggestive.

What's even more stupid is the fact that my favourite American television show of all time is about a vampire who fights demons. In a series that has lots of CGI and decent make up and a brilliant stunt team and amazing writers that make things quite scary at times. Thinking back, there's zombies in at least one episode of Angel, and at least two episodes of Buffy. I didn't find those bastards scary. Much. Okay, I did a bit. Shut up.

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