I’ve decided to watch a scary movie a day until Halloween.

This is partly because I’m a fan of scary movies, both the good and bad varieties. It’s also because there are so many interesting scary movies in theaters between now and then. It may also be a stunt to make my current lack of employment seem a little more fun. In fact, that may be most of it.

Regardless of how this silly idea came about, I’m committed to it. I’ll be using my Netflix account, my Apple TV and the six or seven movie theaters within walking distance to make sure I’ve got a film to see every day. I’ll write about them all, and I’d love to talk about them. I might even try to post a schedule if I can get that far ahead. I also plan to see if I can devise a comprehensive method for rating the potential goodness of scary movies in general.

My friend Susan is worried it will make me “weird.” I guess we’ll see about that too.

The first two scary movies I saw in this effort were “Sorority Row” (conditional Yay) and “Final Desination in 3-d” (complete boo.) I’m off to NetFlix Instant Viewing find the movie for tonight before it’s too late.