I don't like watching movies very much, especially Hollywood movies, so I don't know about a lot of things that other people my ages would commonly be expected know. So in an attempt to bring myself up to date with my contemporaries, I've been working to rectify this. Since I can't actually be bothered watching any of the movies, I've instead been spending a lot of time reading about various well known films on Wikipedia ("the One Stop Resource For Damn Near Anything!")
I've been focussing on films in the genres I have at least a vague interest in, which basically means science fiction and horror. Actually, I don't like horror films at all (although I have a fondness for horror video games like Silent Hill) but I do confess to a sort of macabre fascination with them, especially classic villains like Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. So as a result I've recently read about: the Predator series, the Alien series (and Alien vs Predator), Starship Troopers, Robocop, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Exorcist series, the Hannibal Lector films, Final Destionation, the Scream trilogy and -just for the hell of it- the Scary Movie series. I also looked up The Crow movies (the first installment being one of my all-time favourite Hollywood films) and various other random things, such as H.R Geiger's night terrors and the Heavy Metal movies. I love Wikipedia.
As a result of my studies I can detail with reasonable accuracy the order in which Jason killed his victims in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (which was only the 4th film).
Unfortunately, I also feel a strange compulsion to watch endless amounts of Hello Kitty...
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