Friday the 13th part 51

So today is Friday the 13th.

When I was a kid, I really used to love Friday the 13th. No, I'm not superstitious at all. It was just that every time it came around, Channel 2 (you see, there were only 2 channels then so it is very easy to remember who did what) would play lots of horror movies until the early hours of the morning. And for the record, they also played a horror movie every Sunday night around 10:30, though it slowly got later and later until they stopped doing it. Wimps.

Anyways, I loved horror movies. People doing unspeakable things to other people and making everyone fear for their lives - grand entertainment. I don't love them so much nowadays, but I still enjoy the occasional horror film now and then... but mostly if it involves zombies. But back then? Well, let's just say I had all the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm St movies on video and I found them hilarious. Since then they have made another 2 Friday the 13th movies (plus a 'remake' of the 1st, even though they kinda changed the main plot point) and I might have to watch them some day...

Is there going anywhere? Probably not.

So it is Friday the 13th, and as tempted as I am to don a hockey mask and go around butchering teenagers on camp, I have decided instead to stay home and resurrect that lost tradition of horror movies on Friday the 13th by renting out Saw II (lord knows what I was thinking), House of the Dead (z-grade zombie movie that looks amazingly laughable) and Rob Zombie's Halloween (you might as well just write "train-wreck of insanity" all over that one). Should be interesting. Especially considering how much my flatmate can't handle horror at all - she couldn't even sit through half an hour of I Am Legend, and couldn't sleep after watching Donnie Darko.

I'm just wondering why I couldn't find any horror movies that involve robots - it's always some form of monster. I've seen Killer Klowns from Outer Space more times than I should admit, but why are there none about robots going crazy and killing people all over the world? I would love to watch something like that... I guess Robocop is probably the closest to that I can get, but if you happen to know of one please let me know.