What’s your favorite scary movie?

Tattoo by Annelise of Refuge Tattoo in Hartford, CT July 2022

So it’s the early 2000’s and we’re having a sleepover, mattresses, blankets and sleeping bags all over the living room floor. We wait for our parents to go to sleep and put on Scream. The minute we heard, “What’s your favorite scary movie?” I was hooked.

Slightly campy, cult classic horror movies became a lifeline as I got older and began facing my trauma and moving into a stable version of adulthood that I so craved. Over time watching the Scream movies on repeat became a trauma recovery lullaby where watching someone face their own trauma over and over, coming back stronger and more capable was an anthem for that recovery.

So Ghostface and I should probably be together forever making prank phone calls to find our your favorite scary movie.