Every year around Halloween, I feel the need to watch a great horror flick and scare myself silly, which, as you may have figured out by now, is not so difficult to do. At least it shouldn’t be. By now, everyone should know that I am a huge chicken, who jumps at every sound and sleeps with a night light. You would think finding something to scare me would be a pretty easy task.

No such luck. For the last few weeks, I’ve been perusing the videos at the store, hoping the next one I grab will be the super-scary flick I’m seeking, but so far, that hasn’t happened.

I don’t think I’m a movie snob or anything, but after watching a million different films billed as the scariest movie of the year, I’ve been horribly disappointed with the crap that makes up horror flicks. Give me a good, old Alfred Hitchcock thriller any day, and I’ll probably be hiding under my covers for hours, imagining every shadow is an evil doer coming to get me, but if I have to sit through one more “horror” flick where they douse everyone in lots of fake blood, make everything super nasty and expect that to replace all the good old-fashioned fear that came from watching “Psycho” or “Rear Window,” it’s just not going to work.