If you find yourself caught in a horror movie...

Tonight La and I decided to watch a scary movie. So we head to the video store and pick up The Strangers. Word on the street has it that this movie is, "almost too scary" which to us spells out a good night. The thing is, I am not a horror buff. To my knowledge, Laurie isn't either. But this doesn't deter us.

What does deter us is the movie itself. It was pretty scary. Not in that "I can't watch this" kind of way. Mostly in that, "I can watch this and then tonight I won't be able to sleep" kind of way.

Fun facts about the film:
1) It was filmed in Florence, just up the road from us here in Charleston.
2) While it is marketed as being based on "true events," that's not quite what it seems. A tiny bit of the plot is based on a story from the film maker's life and the larger theme is based on the Manson Family's work. (La and I have read extensively on these people, so that doesn't scare us too much.)
3) Gemma Ward is in it. She always was kind of creepy.
4) Dennis Reynolds (Glenn Howerton if you must use his real name) is also in it.

Anyway, fun facts aside, the movie was still scary. As a coping mechanism, Laurie and I thought of a number of ways in which we, in our infinite genius, would escape this situation should it occur to us.

La and Mo's Escape Plan Which Everybody Should Use at Their Own Discretion Should They be Attacked by Murders in Masks:
1) Don't go out for cigarettes leaving your girlfriend home alone in a house in the woods at 4 am. Just a thought. Preventative measures here.
2) Play dead. You know. Knock yourself out. On the one hand, they may think they've won. On the other hand, if you're unconscious you won't know that you're being stabbed repeatedly in the abdomen!
3) Steal a mask. This is La's idea. I would like to add that if no masks are lying around, make one out of a flour sack, a pillow case, or a pot holder. After putting said mask on, pretend you are one of the "bad guys" and make a run for it.
4) If all else fails, pop a Xanax, baby. Take this guy's method for coping (though I will say being murdered is harsher than being drawn on-- high school, who needs it?). This follows the logic from the "if you're unconscious..." reasoning above. Seriously though. Doped out of your mind? Good way to go. At least a much better way to go than to be conscious and fully aware of the cruelty/pain/suffering/ow!ow!ow!get-the-friggin'-meat-cleaver-out-of-my-torso-ness of the situation. I hear people have been using perscription pills for years now to take away their sorrows. If ever a situation were more sorrowful than being systematically toyed with and then executed, I don't know of it.

So, take my movie tidbits, tuck them in your back pocket, and skip your way into the sunset of another happy day in which IMDB still makes dreams come true.

Then take my escape advice, tuck that into your front pocket, and don't die.

All in all, this was a good day.