We didn’t plan much for Halloween. In this country, it’s not as big of a deal as it is back home, but we did want to do something. It was only natural for scary movies to be proposed.
For some reason, I strongly wanted to watch Resident Evil: Apocalype, or Biohazard 2 as it is called in Japan. I couldn’t fathom where this desire to see it came from, only that I really wanted to watch it again.
Mike, Anna, Matt, and I bought some much needed snackage prior to viewing the film, including cheese. I don’t recall hearing about this, but apparently, if you watch horror movies and eat cheese, the cheese somehow induces nightmares. (That would be a big fat not so much for me. Whoa. And maybe it explains Cheese Man from the Buffy season 4 finale!)
While we were watching the movie, about a quarter of the way in, right around the church scene maybe, it dawned on me why I wanted to watch the film.
“I remember now,” I explained, “I watched this with my friends last Halloween. It was the first time I’d seen the movie.”
I guess it’s became a kind of tradition with me. Memories flooded my mind of sitting in Yoss’s living room watching this movie, attempting to watch Underworld, and having Invader Zim playing in the background.
By the time the movie was over, Phil and Scottish Steve came over, too. We watched some Treehouse of Horror episodes, and then we watched The Ju-on, like the way original version I think, even prior to The Ju-on: The Grudge, which is the film that the American version was based on. It was kinda messed up, yeah? I think I was unaffected by the movie mostly ‘cuz I was falling asleep through it. The subtitles were hard to read, too, so that didn’t help matters.
Still a highly creepyfying film.
I really want to see the American version, though, if anything to hear Sarah Michelle Gellar’s bad Japanese. I was mystified by this.
“You mean it was worse than mine?”
Mike laughed, “Oh man, it was sooo bad!”
“Like Wicked bad?” Referencing the USJ version we saw several weeks ago. I mean, I salute anyone who can speak Japanese, but sometimes the accents are funny, and when I recognize the slight nuances in accent, you know it can’t be good.
“Yeah, that bad!”
Hilarious.
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