Candyman

I'd like to share with you quickly a little bit about my relationship with scary movies. As I mentioned, I started reading Stephen King when I was nine years old, and I've been watching horror since long before then. As an adult, not many scary movies can keep my heart racing all the way to the end but when I was a kid I was much easier to hold. I've always loved being frightened by movies, and I've always kind of chased that high of being terrified to turn the light off bedtime. If you've read my posts up to now (particularly this one) you'll know that the town I grew up in was an hour from civilization in the two closest directions so I can literally count on one hand the movies that I saw in theaters between '86 and '92. Candyman, Death Becomes Her, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Who Framed Roger Rabbit are the only ones that come to mind. Of those four, only one left me terrified at bedtime, and as a matter of fact I was terrified at all times! Even though I was plenty old enough to have been jaded about the genre in general, I guess seeing it on the big screen really affected me and I was scared enough to even pee with the door cracked open for probably a full week. It remains the most afraid I've ever been of a movie and it holds a very dear place in my heart. 

Now. Recently I discovered Tony Todd, the Candyman himself, is on Twitter. I followed him immediately and tried to come up with some way to put all of this information into 140 characters but before I could, I found that he's one of the celebrities who follows the fans who follow him! Obviously, he doesn't know me from Adam on Twitter but still... he followed me! He's my Twitter follower and he seems to read fan tweets often. This is a big day for me and I'm going to use it wisely! He's getting a link to this post in addition his fan letter, and hopefully he'll read it. Keep checking back on Twitter, folks! I just may receive a mention!