PROGNOSTICATE

January 31, 2010

Prognosticate
\präg-‘nä-ste-‘kat\ v 1: to predict 2: to give an indication of in advance : presage*

While scary movies are the bane of my best friend’s existence, I truly love to scare myself. I know that sounds a little odd, but it is true; I love not knowing what is lurking ominously behind a cellar door or whom the real killer is. I love coming out of a thriller knowing that none of what I had just seen was real or had hopes of being brought to fruition. I hate movies that disable me from fully reaping the true benefit of being scared witless as I am watching them; the ability to prognosticate replacing fear and suspense.
The best and most frightening horror film I have viewed was AmityVille Horror. While seven of my childhood friends and I sat in one of their living rooms, watching the terror unfold before us while I bit my nails down to the quick, the main character attempted to make his way down to the cellar to find the cause of the disruption in his house. We all knew what was about to happen, however none of us wanted to face the facts that our worst fears just might come true: the film would end with a fade out and we would go back to our mundane lives that were more easily predicted than the thriller that was taking place on the 32 inch plasma screen T.V.

*letter “e” is upside down producing sound of “uh”