by Brooke
Arachnophobia VS. Trainspotting
Or: “Forget Spiders, You Should Really Be Worried about Heroin Addiction.”
For my 13th birthday I invited few friends to my house for a sleepover and movie night. We chose what we expected to be two very adult movies: classic horror flick Arachnophobia and the new and oh so Euro trendy Trainspotting. God, we were so edgy.
For my 13th birthday I invited few friends to my house for a sleepover and movie night. We chose what we expected to be two very adult movies: classic horror flick Arachnophobia and the new and oh so Euro trendy Trainspotting. God, we were so edgy.
As it turned out, Arachnophobia, the movie that was supposed to give us the late-night heebie-jeebies in my dark old farmhouse living room, ended up being our palette cleanser.
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The real scary movie that night was Trainspotting. Drugs, dirty toilets and dead babies? Now THAT was the stuff of nightmares. We were cowering behind pillows, eyes wide, our impressionable minds forever tainted by the horrors of urban poverty and heroin addiction in 1980s Edinburgh. Clearly we were not so edgy.
Sick to our stomachs, we turned to Jeff Daniels, spiders and small-town America to reassure us that all would be well in the world. These were problems you could just kill with fire. It was positively life affirming.
Good thing I waited until the following year to watch Kids, huh?
Good thing I waited until the following year to watch Kids, huh?
Author’s Note:
Arachnophobia is the perfect campy movie for a family-friendly throwback Halloween night. Check out the theatrical trailer:
Arachnophobia is the perfect campy movie for a family-friendly throwback Halloween night. Check out the theatrical trailer:
