10 Normal Things Movies Have Made Terrifying (Part II)

People Watching: Rear Window

You’ll be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t enjoy people watching. It’s a lot of fun. After all, you get to see interesting people doing interesting things, and you even have the power to invent entire stories and conversations centered around their actions. It’s the ultimate lazy day activity for a lonely person with a window. But I will never again people watch, and it’s thanks to that terrifying classic – Rear Window.

What Rear Window taught me is if you people watch, you’ll likely see something you’d rather not know. Sure, it’s good that Jeff was able to figure out that his neighbor was a cold-blooded killer, but think how much easier Jeff’s life would’ve been had he not figured that out. Plus, when Mr. Thorwald came a-killin’, Jeff was lucky enough to have a camera nearby. I personally do not have a camera with that strong of a flash, so had it been me in that situation, I would be chopped up in little pieces with hydrangeas being fertilized by my corpse. That’s why if you walk by my house, you’ll notice all the blinds are tightly drawn, because I don’t ever want to see my neighbors and risk noticing they have a tendency to do away with those who disagree with them.