When I was a child, my cousin Sam sat me down in front of the TV with his sisters and we all watched Scream together. I have been terrified of horror movies ever since and largely unable to watch them unless its daylight outside and I have a movie companion. Twenty years later, Sam is repeating historyand sharing his love of horror movies with the next set of victims, his children, who will be referred to as Girl (age 13) and Boy (age 10). To my surprise, the children are already horror consumers and have already seen Friday the 13th and one of the Freddy Kreuger movies. They both found those films to be hilarious.
Both kids are isolating at home with their parents and were gracious enough to take time out of their busy Fortnite schedules to do an interview, along with their father, about the value of Saw and horror movies in general.
JEZEBEL: So why Saw?
Sam: Well, we actually started out watching Scream the TV series
Are you kidding me right now!? KIDS, DID YOUR FATHER TELL YOU ABOUT THE TIME
[For reasons unknown, the FaceTime connection cut off and I was unable to tell the children about my thoughts on Scream. After a few minutes, I got back in touch with them.]
Sam: They were just bored with the series and the acting was so wack, but I noticed it had a bit of that Saw vibe and Girl kind of liked the show so I told her I was going to put her on to the best psychological thriller of all time. She loved it.
Boy: Were on Season 2 of Scream right now, and we have three suspects on who the killer is. I think its Stevo. Theyre making it so obvious on purpose so that we dont think its him. They want us to think its too obvious so we think its someone else and thats their plan.
Yes, obviously. So what did you guys like about Saw?
Girl: It was confusing at first because they just wake up and theyre in this bathroom type of room and theres a dead body, but its not dead. But they think hes dead.
Boy: [Staring into his iPad] They probably thought he was dead because he had that blood mask on and a gun in his hand so he just looks dead and they couldnt check because of the chains.
Girl: Yeah, but he wasnt dead the whole time, because they explain that he put a patch on to pretend like he was dead.
Wait, how many of these have you seen?
Girl: Four. And the first 30 minutes of the fifth one.
Boy, how do you feel about movie violence?
Boy: I dont mind it. I like it. But I like solving it. I feel like the movie is giving us riddles to solve to figure out who the killer is and I want to figure it out first.
So like a detective?
Boy: Yeah.
Girl, which movie in the franchise is your favorite?
Girl: The third one cause there are more ways that people die.
Excuse me?
Sam: Thats not what she meant. She wants to do graphics for movies when she grows up, so she likes to try and figure out how they make people look like theyre getting cut in half and all the blood and stuff. She asks a lot of questions, like, Do they put fake skin? How do they make the blood squirt like that? Shes interested in the work.
Do you guys feel like youre getting anything from these movies?
Boy: Im getting smarter cause Im trying to solve the mystery. So its teaching me to think bigger and to check to make sure the dead body is dead.
Girl: Im learning all the ways people can die. Like you can put a cage on your head, get sliced in half. Theres a lot of ways.
Do you have suggestions for horror movies that kids your age can watch?
Girl: The Scream series is not that scary so they can watch that and not be scared.
Boy: Tall Grass.
What movies are you going to ask your dad to watch next?
Girl: I already saw Boy, so now I want to see Boy 2. And Chuckie.
Boy: I want to see Bird Box, but theres a sexual scene, so I cant see it.
How do you know that, if you havent seen it?
Boy: Its in the warning. Duh.
Just checking.
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