Sinister, It Is.

     Not many movies are able to incorporate all aspects of horror in a scary movie as well as a recent movie, Sinister. The plot incorporates elements of mystery, horror, and suspense to give you the perfect nightmare. With mysterious serial killings, creepy little children who “shush” the audience, and a haunted house I was hooked the entire movie. I’m a Halloween fanatic and live for scary movies to get me in the mood. The freakier the better, and Sinister definitely delivered.

     The movie starts off simply enough, as a normal family moves into a house, so that the father Ellison, (Ethan Hawke) can write his second true crime novel. Little does the family know, but they have actually moved into the house in which one of the grisly family killings took place. Ellison discovers a box of Super 8 films that date back to the 60s. Each film depicts a normal family gathering and then switches to the next scene in which an unknown killer murders the family.

Ellison works the plot well as the frustrated writer who works relentlessly to solve the mystery and write the book that will seemingly fix all his families problems. He refuses to believe that something to starting to seem paranormal. But as Ellison’s children begin to act more and more strange; he and the audience feel a gripping sense of dread and terror.

With each new discovery of a film, I felt more and more unsettled. When Ellison finally believes something is wrong and decided to move his family back, I couldn’t even breathe. I knew that he wouldn’t be able to escape. The final end to the movie was horrifically disturbing and even if you could predict it, it would cause many a sleepless night.

While doing some research on the film, I came across an article about how this film uses the “found footage” idea in a new way. Usually, the “found footage” is anonymous and edited by an unknown source. Here, the horror lies in how the “found footage” is fragmented throughout the movie. You shiver and cover your eyes every time a film is shown and the short clips continue to haunt you the rest of the movie.

Overall, I highly recommend this movie and if you’re not big on horror than make this the one horror movie you see all year. 

Reason Why OU Does It Better OU/TX Weekend

        As I start the drive down I-35 to the city of the moment, Dallas, TX for OU/TX weekend I can’t help but think about the gravity of this weekend and how much both teams/fans prepare for the next few days. Coming from Texas myself I am well aware of the traditions that go on from the UT side. Texas prides itself on the preparation of this weekend and the customs but I personally enjoy celebrating with the Sooners more!

1.     OU doesn’t chain link to a date all weekend: The Greek life at the University of Texas has the long lasting tradition in which a boy asks a girl to OU/TX weekend and they are stuck as dates the whole weekend. That’s a long time especially since it’s almost required that the dates get a hotel room together. So if your date turns out to be a scoob, your weekend might be an interesting maze of escape routes! OU’s Greek life throws just one

2.     Hotel rooms > staying at someone’s parents house: What’s better than cramming 14 of your best friends in a really nice hotel room and having a weekend long hotel party? Free breakfast, everything gets cleaned up and all of your friends are just a room away. All the OU fans congregate in the same hotel and the spirit is contagious as everyone yells Boomer Sooner all the time!

3.     OU Always Goes for the Win: Texas fans pride themselves on banking on a victory every year and don’t get near into the spirit as much as OU. But, OU gets pumped up the whole week before and still manages to pull the win a good majority of the time! OU fans get show their spirit more!  

The Answer is Yes Part 2

      I do think that saying yes as my only response in a 24-hour period was one of my most insane and unprepared ideas yet. To summarize my day I ate my way through Campus Corner, I bought a huge supply of instant coffee that I probably will never use and I played starting offensive line in an intermural flag football game. I also got nothing accomplished and nothing checked off my checklist. But I had a day that rivaled a field trip day in elementary school. Nothing was planned but I was still surrounded by my best friends and I could definitely tell a few stories here. My day began with this…

     11:45- Once I have walked aimlessly around the Kappa house, where I live, for about 20 minutes after class I usually decide to run errands. I go by myself to be effective. This day I went to Homeland Grocery Store where I discussed the perils of having terrible cigarette tasting coffee in the Kappa house every morning. The grocer asked me if I wanted to try buying instant coffee. I of course had to agree and next thing I knew I had boug an entore Instant Coffee set with every flavor because I couldn’t turn down his offer to buy it all on sale! I am going to start passing the packets out to anyone who will take them because what else am I suppose to do with 75 packets alone of Hazelnut Coffee?

    

      12:30 –I’m still in the midst of trying to tackle my do to list of errands when my friend Emily calls me. She asked if I had eaten lunch and when I told her I hadn’t she asked me to join her at campus Corner at Café Plaid. I was on a tight schedule but I agreed and ate with her. In the midst of lunch I actually got another call from a friend I hadn’t seen in forever who wanted to meet for lunch as well. Emily didn’t understand why I couldn’t just say no but I told her it was a long story and I was really obligated. So I ran over to Blackbird for my second lunch. I could barely move after eating so much and seriously debated turning my phone off to avoid another dreaded call.

     4:00 Around this house I ran into the girl in charge of intermurals at Kappa. She is always on everyone’s tail to get girls to participate in the various sports, but as usual we try and skip around it because half of us couldn’t catch a football if our lives depended on it. This time though I had no choice and agreed to play staring offensive line in the game that afternoon. However; the game turned out to be a lot of fun as a majority of people showed up and I didn’t have to do anything but run around and act like I wasn’t open to reduce the risk of the ball actually being thrown to me. Easy enough! Afterwards, our picture got taken to be posted in a new Greek newspaper. So, now I’m famous!

     

The Answer is Yes Part 1

     Recently inspired by the movie, Yes Man starring Jim Carrey, I have decided to undergo an interesting challenge. The movie follows an unhappy man named Carl who enrolls in a self-help program that follows one simple concept: say yes to everything you encounter. Carl watches his life improve in almost very aspect-he lands a job promotion and even find an attractive girlfriend.

Watching the movie, I pondered if that is always the case and when total agreement can totally fail. So for the next week I am going to choose two days to rationally accept every question or challenge that comes my way. Whether its trying the mysterious egg casserole at the Kappa house, or painting or getting lost while picking up a friend’s dry cleaning in Oklahoma City I am bound to have some exciting results.

Of course, I couldn’t have undergone this challenge without giving it a test run- so today I tried to answer yes to as many questions as possible from 10:00 to 12:00 p.m. this morning. Here were my major two discoveries.

10:07 – I woke up to my best friend asking me if she could borrow my phone.  I agreed and found out her phone had been stolen after a hazy night out, but we used my phone to track hers and she was able to find it. I breathed easy since my first agreement of the day had been helpful and not tricky…

11:34- Running super late to my flight home to Houston, I stopped to get gas and realized my gas cap had gotten partially stuck in the tank! It was so typical of my lemon of a car. The maintenance man asked if he could help me out and give my car a full service. I didn’t have time but I had to agree so I gave a huffed yes as I checked my watch pointedly. Well, turns out my tires were dangerously low and needed inspection. Within only 8 minuets they were plumped up and I was on the road, feeling extremely relieved and lucky to have said yes to that opportunity. Maybe this submission thing had some serious good karma…

     So at this point I love my new game, but I feel that surely the things that I agree to won’t always pan out! Stay posted to see the misshapen adventures that might occur from a day of complete compliance!