We're moving!

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The Teen Room blog is moving over to Tumblr.  What can we say, we just want to be cool, like Brookline and Arlington.

Stay with us, peeps!  New addy is: cambridgeteenroom.tumblr.com


It's a bit of a process moving our old posts over, so if you're feeling archival you'll just have to bear with us for a couple more days.

OCTOBER 8: "Because you were home."

This movie was so scary I couldn't even watch it on my TV, I had to watch it on my tiny laptop screen and have other windows open on the screen that I could slide over the movie when I couldn't handle it. This is hands down the scariest movie I've ever watched by myself. Oh my god. "Because you were home."  Stop it. AND masks? Get out of here. But come back, so I can watch you again.*

Watch at your own risk, for sure. Even the trailer is scary.

*Maya and I, who both love all things scary (if you haven't noticed), were recently discussing the fact that people who don't like scary things assume that those of us who DO like scary things don't get scared. We do, though! We get so scared! We just like to be scared. How about you?

OCTOBER 8: "Because you were home."

This movie was so scary I couldn't even watch it on my TV, I had to watch it on my tiny laptop screen and have other windows open on the screen that I could slide over the movie when I couldn't handle it. This is hands down the scariest movie I've ever watched by myself. Oh my god. "Because you were home."  Stop it. AND masks? Get out of here. But come back, so I can watch you again.*

Watch at your own risk, for sure. Even the trailer is scary.

*Maya and I, who both love all things scary (if you haven't noticed), were recently discussing the fact that people who don't like scary things assume that those of us who DO like scary things don't get scared. We do, though! We get so scared! We just like to be scared. How about you?

OCTOBER 7: FLOPPY MASK OF FEAR

 

 

Let me tell you about the scariest thing in the world: a mask. A person wearing a mask in a place where people usually don't wear masks? Call 9-11. A man in a business suit and a mask walking down the street? RUN. It has been well documented that of all the masks in the world the scariest one is the floppy sack mask. Gah! Look at it! So horrifying! Do a google image search for floppy sack mask! I didn't even post the worst one!

 

In that spirit (woOoOoOoo--ghosty pun!) here's a great list of 20 of the Scariest Movie Masks. They are not all floppy sack masks, but some of them are almost equally horrifying (check out Alice, Sweet Alice.)

 

The list DOES leave off the scariest mask movie I've ever seen, so your spooky post tomorrow will be devoted to a movie so frightening that it took me several months to even watch the TRAILER all the way through.



OCTOBER 7: FLOPPY MASK OF FEAR

 

 

Let me tell you about the scariest thing in the world: a mask. A person wearing a mask in a place where people usually don't wear masks? Call 9-11. A man in a business suit and a mask walking down the street? RUN. It has been well documented that of all the masks in the world the scariest one is the floppy sack mask. Gah! Look at it! So horrifying! Do a google image search for floppy sack mask! I didn't even post the worst one!

 

In that spirit (woOoOoOoo--ghosty pun!) here's a great list of 20 of the Scariest Movie Masks. They are not all floppy sack masks, but some of them are almost equally horrifying (check out Alice, Sweet Alice.)

 

The list DOES leave off the scariest mask movie I've ever seen, so your spooky post tomorrow will be devoted to a movie so frightening that it took me several months to even watch the TRAILER all the way through.



Smoochypants reads

As some of you know, I am super-useless when it comes to recommending romance novels.  I have like, three titles that really do it for me and in one of them one of the romantic leads is dead.


Go figure.

Luckily for all of us, there are librarians out there who can help me help you.  Check out Booklist's Top 10 YA Romances of 2013.  Knock yerself out with the swoon!

Smoochypants reads

As some of you know, I am super-useless when it comes to recommending romance novels.  I have like, three titles that really do it for me and in one of them one of the romantic leads is dead.


Go figure.

Luckily for all of us, there are librarians out there who can help me help you.  Check out Booklist's Top 10 YA Romances of 2013.  Knock yerself out with the swoon!

OCTOBER 6: Ray Bradbury, "The October Game"

Ray Bradbury is one of my very favorite writers, and most certainly one of the thrilliest horror writers in history.  I especially enjoy reading "The October Game"* aloud to someone who has never heard this story before.

A couple's disintegrating marriage is the impetus for this shocking and disturbing tale.  Like the husband narrating the story, the reader must exercise patience while waiting for the October game's denouement.  But when it comes -- holy cats.




Don't turn on the lights.






* Other creepy reads in this collection: "The Veldt"; "Skeleton"; "The Jar"; "The Small Assassin"; and "Fever Dream"

OCTOBER 6: Ray Bradbury, "The October Game"

Ray Bradbury is one of my very favorite writers, and most certainly one of the thrilliest horror writers in history.  I especially enjoy reading "The October Game"* aloud to someone who has never heard this story before.

A couple's disintegrating marriage is the impetus for this shocking and disturbing tale.  Like the husband narrating the story, the reader must exercise patience while waiting for the October game's denouement.  But when it comes -- holy cats.




Don't turn on the lights.






* Other creepy reads in this collection: "The Veldt"; "Skeleton"; "The Jar"; "The Small Assassin"; and "Fever Dream"

OCTOBER 5: 26 Signs Your Place is Haunted

Courtesy of Buzzfeed.