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( admittedly, she may have been trolling him a little at first. though she stands by that her list were all classics of her favorites. except Grease. that one was a classic but not anywhere near her favorites list.

but his responses are just so genuine she can't troll any further. )

are you a movie critic in your home? horror movies got a lot of themes like that about fear and shame, especially when it comes to sexuality. not always as obvious as others, but it kinda is what it all always comes down to. grease isn't my thing, but i'll be damned if i don't get 'you're the one that i want' stuck in my head every damn time. was it the the murder or the church part in alice sweet alice that got ya?

Oh no, not at all. I just like to go to the matinee on the weekends, it takes my mind off things.

I can understand that. When I was a kid, I snuck into a movie with my sister called Cat People. Do you know it?

I was expecting some violence. But not in the church.

huh. well you got a lot of good points. most people - especially churchy people - just see that kind of thing and say it's disgusting just for existing. never take the time to pay attention to it. no. it sounds weird. is it weird? ( she likes weird. )

got ya, though. avoid the church horror movies then, yeah?

I think it's easy to dismiss a message when it's hidden under the sensationalist bits. Not everyone will want to wade through the buckets of pig blood to get to it, and that's okay. That doesn't mean the message isn't there.

I was about twelve, so it would have been the early 40s. It's about a woman who's afraid to consummate her marriage because she thinks she's been cursed to turn into a panther if her passions run too high. And there's the question the whole time of whether she's crazy or she really is cursed. So that's about the fear of sexuality too, always being lonely because you don't think you can love the right way, without ruining everything. Knowing you can never have a normal life, because of something wrong inside you that you can't control. It's not as violent or over the top as Carrie, but you might like it.

No murder in the church, please :)

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you're right about the sensationalist stuff. it's fine and dandy if you don't wanna see it. but doesn't mean it isn't worth seeing or making for other folk. you really should think about being a movie critic. i'm gonna have to see if they have cat people in here now. i bet they do if they had wolf man. religious man, then?

There's enough real horror in the world that our energy would be wasted getting angry about the fictional ones.

I don't know if it's that insightful. It's barely even subtext. But that's sweet of you.

Yeah, I am. Catholic.

that's the fucking truth. maybe. but you put it nicely. you're good with words. former evangelical christian. you're a lot better than most the folk i grew up with.

Thank you. Maybe we can watch it together, after Halloween.

Can I ask why you left?

i'd love that. movies are always better with friends. :) i wanted bigger things. wanted to go to hollywood and be an actress. my dad told me i was gonna burn in hell for it. just don't fit my lifestyle.

For acting? That's really overblown. Nobody says that to stage actors or musicians.

hollywood's all violence and porn and corrupting the youth. so the protesters say.

War and poverty and discrimination corrupt the youth, too. And worse, I'd say. They should worry about that.

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