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I have Goosebumps
Aug. 27th, 2012 07:38 pmI have a confession to make. Goosebumps scares me. (The TV show version, I was too old for the books when they came out and haven't ever gone looking for them since.) Does that sound wacky? Let me describe today's episode:
I was multitasking and missed the first few minutes, so I'm not sure how, but a bunch of kids ended up in an old, abandoned building.
Turned out it was an old insane asylum.
The kids found an operating room. With all sorts of saws and other instruments you'd expect for brain surgery. Clear shot of them, all looking clean and new.
Next the kids found medical records describing the operations and electroshock therapy. (Not described in details, but one character talked about how they electrocuted people and another about "cutting people open".)
Unsurprisingly, the place turned out to be haunted. The ghosts locked the kids in a dorm-type room, but the kids (scared) break out. The ghosts kept whispering to them "Lights out... lights out..." but the kids have no idea what it means.
One kid gets snatched out from the middle of them and reappears strapped down on the operating table. The ghost doctor gets ready to cut his head open. The kids learn that the ghosts were saying "lights out" as a warning, that the doctor would operate on (experiment on, in not so many words) any kids out of their room after lights out. The End.
WTF. D:
A while ago the author of the Animorphs book series and I were emailing back and forth. He's still writing young adult books, and I commented how one had really scared me. He wrote:
I've been asked about whether these books are too scary for kids and I usually answer no, they're too scary for adults. Kids are very hard to scare. They're immortal after all. The processing of aging is in part the learning of fear. Babies aren't scared of anything. Old people are scared of every cool breeze.
That's really tru--ARRRGGG COOL BREEZE! COOL BREEZE! But seriously, I think that really is correct. This episode scared me because I know it could have very easily been true (not the ghost part, but a long-ago doctor abusing mentally ill patients). The idea of being powerless, strapped to a table, at the mercy of an abusive doctor (ghostly or not)...
Edit: And in more scary news? I lost my cellphone a while back, but I only use it once or twice a year, so wasn't rushing to replace it. Twice last week my car didn't start on the first try. Talk about scary, not having a phone in that situation... No pay phones around, would I have to walk in a store and ask a clerk to borrow theirs? c.c I have a new phone now.
I was multitasking and missed the first few minutes, so I'm not sure how, but a bunch of kids ended up in an old, abandoned building.
Turned out it was an old insane asylum.
The kids found an operating room. With all sorts of saws and other instruments you'd expect for brain surgery. Clear shot of them, all looking clean and new.
Next the kids found medical records describing the operations and electroshock therapy. (Not described in details, but one character talked about how they electrocuted people and another about "cutting people open".)
Unsurprisingly, the place turned out to be haunted. The ghosts locked the kids in a dorm-type room, but the kids (scared) break out. The ghosts kept whispering to them "Lights out... lights out..." but the kids have no idea what it means.
One kid gets snatched out from the middle of them and reappears strapped down on the operating table. The ghost doctor gets ready to cut his head open. The kids learn that the ghosts were saying "lights out" as a warning, that the doctor would operate on (experiment on, in not so many words) any kids out of their room after lights out. The End.
WTF. D:
A while ago the author of the Animorphs book series and I were emailing back and forth. He's still writing young adult books, and I commented how one had really scared me. He wrote:
I've been asked about whether these books are too scary for kids and I usually answer no, they're too scary for adults. Kids are very hard to scare. They're immortal after all. The processing of aging is in part the learning of fear. Babies aren't scared of anything. Old people are scared of every cool breeze.
That's really tru--ARRRGGG COOL BREEZE! COOL BREEZE! But seriously, I think that really is correct. This episode scared me because I know it could have very easily been true (not the ghost part, but a long-ago doctor abusing mentally ill patients). The idea of being powerless, strapped to a table, at the mercy of an abusive doctor (ghostly or not)...
Edit: And in more scary news? I lost my cellphone a while back, but I only use it once or twice a year, so wasn't rushing to replace it. Twice last week my car didn't start on the first try. Talk about scary, not having a phone in that situation... No pay phones around, would I have to walk in a store and ask a clerk to borrow theirs? c.c I have a new phone now.
