Two Grown Men...

It was sometime last year or the year before. im not sure when, but halloween yesterday got me thinking about this. Anyway, one day my longtime roommate and now runner up best friend Oliver and i decided to watch a scary movie. So, on one rather normal afternoon in Oliver's room we decided to watch "the fourth kind".

Two grown men, sitting in a room together, in the middle of the day, nearly pissed their pants right where they were sitting all over the place.

The movie is "based" on real events of alien abductees being hypnotized and then sharing their repressed memories of their abductions. The premise is kind of corny. But the idea that these sessions were "recorded" and that the director actually used footage from these "real" sessions made it interesting... and in the end... soul crushing for two guys that thought they were pretty radical. The director would cut back and forth from dramatic representation (one of the saddest things about this whole situation was that i was thoroughly scared of a movie staring Mila Jovovich... i know... i couldn't be more ashamed of myself) to "real" footage. There would be a split screen with the actors acting out the parts of the people in the "real" sessions. And as soon as that split screen popped up Ollie and i would both breath in nervously because we knew something unbelievable disturbing and "real" was about to be shown.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220198/

I like to think it was the "real"ness of this that turned us into 13 year old girls. To think that all this "actually" happened made me want to shoot missiles blindly into space hoping that one would get lucky and hit some space ship or alien planet or something just so there would be one less place to be abducted to. not to mention, it takes place in alaska which we all know is the most terrifying of all the states.

Ollie had been sitting in front of me the whole movie so i could hear the audibly nervous breathing but i could not see his face. Once the movie had ended he turned, slack jawed and wide eyed. He spoke between nervous laughs:

"Are you freakin serious"

Yeah i was freakin' serious. Freakin' seriously terrified. Freakin' seriously terrified out of my mind guts!

Two grown men. In the middle of the day. Yeah. Its embarrassing. And it lasted weeks. Sad.