Horror

[Albertosaurus Rex]

Yeah, it's great to have something to share. My father and I have watched innummerable films and television series over the years. We've been trying to involve my younger brother too recently, but that's going not quite as smoothly. As a sidenote, we have also tried involving my sister, but that's a lost cause. She doesn't appear to be very interested in fiction, a few exceptions notwithstanding. I will never be able to figure her out. She loved Smallville, Lost, Harry Potter and Avatar: The Last Airbender, but it was impossible to convince her to sit down and try even a single episode of Fringe or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Trying something and not liking it is one thing, but many things she will never even a chance. These days she's gravitating toward reality shows and talent shows like Survivor, Holland's Got Talent, The Voice of Holland, etc. I have never been able to see the appeal of those shows and yes, I have in fact seen my fair share of it.

My brother, alas, gravitates more and more towards things that both my father and I find distasteful. Films and series that are very gory or rely on shock value for their humor. My dad was in fact reluctant to give I Am Legend a try, but I convinced him to give it a chance because my brother kept getting disappointed when we didn't give his stuff a chance. However, he (my brother, that is) still pretends he doesn't know what I'm talking about when I ask him "Does Saw really sound like something dad would like to see?"

(EDIT: I do seem to be getting awfully off-topic here. I've gone over my bookshelf and realized that there's virtually no horror there either. Which is curious, because reading is a much more solitary habit. The scariest book in my collection is Scott Bakker's Neuropath, which is marketed as a thriller.)