I have a TV service with over 500
options which includes dozens of movie channels that run nothing but for twenty-four
hours a day. You think with the money I pay for this service and the abundance
of offerings there would be more of a selection every evening that would keep
me happy, especially during the month of October. For some reason whoever schedules
these stations thinks they are the only ones who came up with the ingenious idea
of running nothing but horror movies for the whole month of October. Vampires, zombies, and angry boogie
men vie with alien creatures and serial killers over tasty human beings. The
“family” channels feature psycho-thrillers with demented men, women, and
children who consider family and the unsuspecting traveler as easy prey and plan
their gory deaths. Even the kid-friendly
channels bury us with cartoon versions of the same. Call me a scaredy cat, but I just
cannot watch scary movies. I cannot stomach anything that literally eats away
at my imaginat…