For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 27, 2024

That horrible moment when you wake up in the middle of the night and find your sister and your dog are in the bed with you and you wish that your parents didn’t lock their bedroom door.

I can’t watch scary movies, and I’m 75…

horror movies are destructive to the mind/soul, I refuse to watch them. The reason young people laugh is an attempt to avoid the bad impression, but it gets there anyway, as this strip shows. There can be tension and threat in a film without the need to adversely affect the audience. why give yourself bad dreams? You have to wonder at the source of the ideas portrayed (,even if it is “just” actors on a set). Movies, which is escapism makes you realise there’s places you don’t want to escape to, so why go there.

It’s nice that they allow Edgar to come to bed with them. Now, if Elly should happen to look in…

Yes, in the old movies, it was apparent that rubber and papier-mache props were used as “special effects”. But in today’s films, it’s all CGI, which can really appear scary—especially to small fry like April.

They are not the best use of what time I have left in this world. The news is more scary than any movie.

I didn’t have a queen-sized bed until I was off living on my own…

Never watch scary movies with a four-year-old

lol what’s edgar staying up all freaked about? he spent the whole time stealing popcorn not watching the movie!

Love Edgar giving a side eye to the popcorn in top panel! Next panel, popcorn spill, Edgar’s delight!

I can’t watch scary Kamala!

A lot of the older movies did not show the blood & gore of the more recent ones. They relied more on suspense to get the feeling across, which had its own manner of inducing fright and anxiety.

And to think they laugh when mom said those movies will give them nightmares… Well, WHO’S LAUGHING NOW!? Perhaps it’s that thing under your bed who is patiently waiting for you to close your eyes while licking its lips and drooling hungrily…

I tried watching silence of the lambs. Never again!

October is horror movie month for me. Once I wanted to watch one on TV and had to babysit my nephew and 2 nieces. It didn’t go well for Gremlins, the year before when this happened. So I made jokes like this thru the whole movie and they were laffing like all get out. No problems like the last panel or the previous year.

I am not allowed to watch scary movies with friends. I cannot help but explain how the scene was REALLY shot. lol

I never understood those who watched the horror movie genre. Why does anyone watch a flick whose main purpose is to scare the wits out of you? I suppose it must losing yourself in the film and then enjoying an adrenaline rush you get when you realize you’re actually not being chased by a chain saw wielding maniac?? I wonder if those who enjoy these films have trouble falling asleep at night?

Haha…even the dog is scared

Even poor Edgar is too scared to close his eyes.

Svengoolie!

Farley killer,

Farley killer,

Pen-is headed Farley killer!

Dawn and Pawn

Everyone is always so brave, until the lights go out.

LOL… I value many of those old horror movies. Especially the classic B&W films from the late 30’s and early 40’s. Plus, many of them were filmed and directed by some of Hollywood’s best Cinematographers and Directors.

Don’t need to watch scary movies. If I want to be terrified, I look at my checkbook.

I was a little freaked out by “The Blob”, but I was only 6 or so.

The most often cited movie as the beginning of the “horror” category is Night of the Living Dead. There were scary movies before but Living Dead crossed many lines with explicit scenes and (spoiler) no happy ending. Half a century later it is mostly considered one of the crowd, but in its time it was unprecedented. Audiences used to leave monster movies with girl friends clinging to boy friends, both laughing. Audiences left Living Dead in shocked silence.

it hasn’t been the same since hitchcock.

This reminds me of the time I had my kids watch the original Halloween around 2010. I remember seeing it in college and thought it was terrifying. Watching it with them 30+ years later and they are looking at me like, “This scared you?” And I have to admit they were right.

The old Creature Features in the Chicagoland area back in the ’60s. Hammer films were hair raising for me.

They could get the idea to bring back Farley…

…bury Farley in the Pet Sematary!

I can’t watch them either and I’m 67. It’s all because of watching The Wizard of Oz as a child. The flying monkeys absolutely terrified me! So guess which are my least favorite mammals ….

Elizabeth did not see any scary stuff. In the second, fourth, fifth and eighth panels her glasses were steamed over!

When I was a teen I loved horror movies, not so much anymore at 82. Altho ours weren’t as scary as they are today.

Never liked Horror movies.

Somebody sticks their head in and yells BOO!

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I believed a blob of jello could roll around and eat people

I never was a scary movie fan. Not entertaining at all to me.

Yet another sleepless night caused by the infamously terrifying Video.

Some are o.k..

I can’t watch scary movies because I’m 84 and they are stupid.

Remember seeing the original Halloween when i was in my teens. Scared the hell out of me, I was terrified to walk to my car, which was parked in a dark lot. Haven’t done scary movies since then. The nightly news is scary enough.

They’re coming to take you away, ha ha! ;-)

As good as Friday the 13th, Part 3 is, the 3D effects are absolutely DUMB!!

Me either, and I’m 76!!

A member of the extended family writes, directs, and produces horror movies. He says that they’re not gory, but I’ve never been allowed to watch one.

How about Arachnophobia?

Even he who is pure at heart and says his prayers by night

May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the moon is full and bright

UGH, that “teen dialect”!

“AN, this is too much! LIKE, we are supposed to believe that’s a TENTACLE? Get some realistic SLIME! OK, guys?!!!”

Talk about unrealistic!