Strange Fears

When I was in fourth grade, I could never sleep at night because I always had one of two nightmares.  I was either hiding in a tree while a gloved witch looked for me below or I was falling from a tall tower into a rosebush and getting my eyes torn out by thorns. Gross, I know.  Now you get why I couldn't sleep.

These dreams weren't just manifestations of my overactive imagination.  I used my imagination to dream up new ways to act out Titanic, Spice World, Anastasia, and Grease.  No, these were my dreams remembering the two scariest movies I had ever seen, The Witches and Faerie Tale Theatre's Rapunzel.  Those movies introduced me to the two scariest women I had ever encountered, Anjelica Huston and Shelley Duvall. Both actresses reiterated their statuses as the scariest women ever in, respectively, Ever After and The Shining, but I have a feeling that Anjelica Huston plays the role of terrifying witch in a lot of things.  Later on, I saw the newer, amped up The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and I met Tilda Swinton, who played the White Witch.  She was also in this crazy, technological movie, Teknolust and hey guess what, I was scared of her.

This year at the Oscars, Tilda and Anjelica were asked to present the award for Best Actress.  And I got scared.  I literally could not look at the screen.  The only thing that would have made it worse were if the Duvall monster showed up.  It was actually so hard to believe that oldish Brad could ever have fallen in love with the terrifying Tilda. 

A few years ago, my baby sister watched The Witches and told me that it was a really cute movie.  But it stands out in the mind as the most horrifying film of all time, and I have seen Silence of the Lambs. For the rest of my life, I will be terrified of three kids movies and three actresses that starred in them.