Horror Movies Galore

Lately I've been writing about horror movies, in a way to compliment my Hallowe'en Marathon lens. After spotlighting one of my favorites - A Nightmare on Elm Street - I decided to do my top ten list of the best vampire characters in movies. It came out of WIP late last night, so I started browsing through some of the groups I had joined recently, on the hunt for some good lensroll content. Again and again, I kept coming across great movies lenses by Orthia.

She has some really fantastic top ten lists, where she features movies that you wouldn't normally think of, but that really do deserve to be on somebody's best list. My favorite was the "Apocalyptic Top Ten", but I of course had to add "Horrific Top Ten" to my lensrolls.

I liked her top ten vampire movie list so much, that I featured it right on Top Ten Movie Vampires. While I stuck mostly to new titles, she's got all the classic favorites. I really enjoyed reading all of this Giant Squid's top tens. If you like movies, or lists, I highly recommend them.

Meanwhile, I've been doing a lot of lens polishing. A good habit I suppose, but it's really my way of putting off writing the text portions of my next lens to be. In school friends and teachers always told me that I should go to college to be a writer. It wasn't until I was ready leave high school that I realized how much I actually hate writing. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you enjoy it, I guess. Too bad nobody told me to go to culinary school. I love to cook. I could have been running a restaurant by now. I should sue my guidance councillor. Maybe I'll just add more recipes to the Mommy Menu.

Parodies are Fun!

So awhile ago I decided to write an entire lens about A Nightmare on Elm Street, as a complimentary page to my Hallowe'en Marathon. I had originally intended on making it a Squidflix lens, but I couldn't figure out how to get into the workshop, so I gave up and just started a regular old lens.

After writing and picking images and action figures and links, I poked around looking for good content to add to my Discovery Tool. When I searched keyword Freddy Krueger, I found the most hilarious lens! Freddy Krueger & Jason Voorhees: Best Friends Forever is a clever back story about horror films' greatest villains. It's a bit silly in places, but all around it's a good laugh and a nice tribute. I particularly like the chapter about the Crystal Lake high school prom - it's priceless. I was a little surprised to discover that the author was a self proclaimed QueenOfTheGeeks. I would have guessed a guy for sure! Not that I believe in gender stereotypes. After all, who just wrote a guide to Freddy Krueger films?

A One Sided Debate

I was browsing around on Squidom, and I came across a HeyMonkeyBrain lens by lensmaster sarahjjac, about parents getting away with letting kids die in hot cars. I'd been waiting to come across a lens to put in the "Lens that made me cry" section of my profile, and finally found it. Although I didn't truly cry, I did cringe - a lot - and hugged my baby fiercly after I read it. Apparently, in the US, being stupid isn't a crime. Even when being stupid results in the death of a child. People who leave their kids in the car on hot days don't get charged when they die, because they claim they 'forgot' that the child was even in the car with them. Who does that?? That's the kind of lapse that should last 30 seconds, at best, not long enough for a kid to bake in the sun.

Leaving a kid in a hot car to die IS neglect!! is such an important debate - although how anyone can side with the offending parents is beyond me. As soon as I was done participating in the Duels, I immediately lensrolled it to my Professor Baby series. I'm a big believer in criminal stupidity. People seem to forget that just because someone is charged with a crime, doesn't mean that they will go to jail. People tend to sympathize with negligent people whose stupidity and disregard for others results in harm and death, because they could see themselves getting into such a mess, and would hate to go to prison for it. I think that everyone who 'accidentally' harms someone should have to go through the legal system. A judge decides whether what they did - and how sorry they are for it - is terrible enough to warrant a prison sentence. That way, everyone has to be responsible for their own actions.

"I forgot I had my baby with me" my arse! If the baby sitter did it, you bet your left eye they'd be rotting in a cell, because the parents would see to it. So who's responsible for getting justice for a child when it's the parents who screw up? Apparently nobody! If you think this is an outrage, I highly recommend heading over to sarahjjac's lens and putting in your 2 cents. She's provided a lot of angles and queries to really drive home her side of the scale. It's my favorite HeyMonkeyBrain to date.