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I am not a horror reader, however, sometimes, very occasionally, I will go on a horror movie binge. I enjoy the creep factor, like something is just behind me. Maybe you call it terror. I like the feeling that I can get scared about something that isn't my kids. BTW, I scare easily when it comes to movies.
have you ever played Slender? That game gave me anxiety!! Until I shut the music off and then I was fine, lol.
The Ring gave me nightmares for weeks. But sometimes, I just want the freak out!
I recently went on a horror movie binge, and funny story...
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I LOVE HORROR!!! I love to read it and watch it. Nothing really grosses me out, but the thing that makes it hard to walk down a dark hallway is great imagery. (Think the Ring or Zelda on Pet Semetery or the curse chick from The Grudge.) Japanese horror is the best and scariest by far. I guess what draws me to horror is the thrill of being scared. I like to read it and write it because I can safely see scenarios play out and let myself imagine how I would see something play out. Unhappy endings intrigue me. I'm not a big fan of horror that ends happy (I've seen a few and it seems to defeat the purpose of being horror.)
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I read horror occasionally but I'm not a big fan of watching horror. I think it's the suspenseful music that gets me. I'm a big chicken! I have a similar story to share. When I was a teen I can remember going out to the cottage with a friend and we rented Nightmare on Elm Street. It was fall and we were out there by ourselves watching the movie late, late at night (why we thought that was a good idea is beyond me, lol). We thought we were the only ones around because none of the neighbours were out, so we were being goofy and screaming at the top of our lungs at all the scary bits. Well, we were really screaming when there was a pounding at the door. We looked out the window and there was a dark shadow holding an axe! Needless to say, we were scared shitless. Turns out my neighbour had come out late that night and heard all the screaming. He ran over with the axe in case he had to break the door in.
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I have a similar story to share. When I was a teen I ca..."
LMAO!!! That is hilarous!!!
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Jen wrote: " Warning: cussing to commence:I am not a horror reader, however, sometimes, very occasionally, I will go on a horror movie binge. I enjoy the creep factor, like something is just behind me. Maybe..."
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I probably would have jumped about ten feet high!!!
Uggggh. The Ring... *chills*
I won tickets to see that sucker on the big screen and it totally freaked me out.
Thank you Jen! I hate posting on my phone! Stupid apps!
Gina wrote: "OMG Lisa! That's horrible!"Makes for a great story now though. My neighbour still talks about it :-)
Great stories, Jen and Lisa. I would've leapt that high I'd bang my head on the ceiling. lolI'm a fairly nervous person and I've been scared of the dark since I was a kid, but I love a good horror -books and films, (not the pointless slasher films that pass themselves off as horror).
I don't know why, maybe a psychiatrist could explain, but i love that edge of the seat feeling where you know something is going to happen....
but not when....
or what....
and then you bang your head on the ceiling. lol
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Sometimes ypu need that alive feeling, lol
I think the last movie that really freaked me out was the Blair Witch Project.Don't laugh! Hey.. hey! Some of you are still giggling!! :P
The reason it freaked me out was the atmosphere. First time I watched it, my wife had to work, and while I tried to wait, my morbid sense of humor kicked in and I thought 'I'll watch it first so I know all the freaky parts... then I can scare the shit out of her!'
Problem #1 with that idea: there happened to be a thunderstorm rolling through.
Problem #2 with the idea: I turned off all the lights in the apartment.
Problem #3 with the idea: No one else was home.
About halfway through the movie, I had to pee. Now think about it... a movie with a bunch of those witch symbols hanging all over the screen + no lights on + thunderstorm outside. Yeah, I turned on EVERY SINGLE LIGHT in the apartment on the way to the bathroom. And expected to see those damn symbols reflected in the glass, outside the windows...
I like horror movies, but honestly, these days the definition of 'horror' isn't what it used to be. Hollywood has redefined 'horror' as 'gore'. What makes horror 'HORROR' isn't having some killer clown running around with a cotton candy ray gun (props to KKFOS)and having the people/characters die bloody gruesome deaths. It's the atmosphere. The music that's so low you can barely hear it, but it sets your nerves on edge. It's that waiting... KNOWING something is going to happen, but not knowing when it's coming... and then when you think 'maybe I was wrong' something jumps out at you.
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Ok Scott! I got a story for you. I was watching Sleepy Hollow (Johnny Depp) in the movie theater with my husband. I had been having a problem with nose bleeds due to nasal medications. During me the part where they were chopping into the horseman's tree and blood is pouring out of the tree, I get a nosebleed, right then. I was watching this on the screen and smelling blood. Talk about complete wig out. I left the theater to collect myself.
Yep! You're telling me! My husband didn't know what happened! He doesn't like horror movies but he came with me and then I ran out on him! I did come back a few minutes later though.
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Scott wrote: "I think the last movie that really freaked me out was the Blair Witch Project.Don't laugh! Hey.. hey! Some of you are still giggling!! :P
The reason it freaked me out was the atmosphere. First t..."
The bit that I liked with the BWP was the brooding sense of unease at the beginning. the interviews with the locals; " don't go in the woods- ..." The woods didn't deliver, at all, WORST MOVIE EVER! Sigh. Now, Alien, that's a movie.
You know, the older I get, the more I realize things that used to make me cringe bother me, but don't make me cringe like they used to. I see them now, and if I can reach them with my back and knees I can usually clean them up. But the thing that I recall that used to really get me was when out neanderthal dog Chutney (long past) would go rooting through the litter box and then come to the foot of the bed on my side and throw it all back up.That was pretty awful. Even worse, she thought it was a gift.
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@Jamie Alien was an awesome movie!! But Aliens ha me enraptured and scared to death both!
I love horror, but don't actually watch as many horror movies or read as many horror novels as I'd like to because I've become disenfranchised with people who think "gross and gory" equals "scary." I prefer monsters to blood and guts (I'm so squeemish I even had to cover up graphic pictures in college books. Telling me that the movie effects are fake makes no difference; it LOOKS real!). That said, the one thing that continues to scare me where books and movies fail is video games. Games like Bioshock freak me out, which is a shame because it actually sounds like a decent storyline (if I could just pull it together enough to finish the game! LOL). Bioshock takes place in an isolated, run-down setting where lights flicker, weird noises/voices are heard in the background and things pop out at you from the side or behind you, and it's made even creepier because Bioshock is first-person, so you are seeing through the main character's POV.
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Actually you rbing up a great point! Video games are really good at horror and the fact that you are involved instead of just an observer makes it even more creeptastic. Dead Space kills me! I can't play that one atall. I can watch hubby play, but it still makes me jump! LOL!
Agreed, one game that freaked me out was Alone in the Dark... walking along a dark path and then lightning flashes showing a zombie figure or something right in front of you... omg that made me jump haha. Doom was also good for those 'jump' moments. Movies just seem to have lost that fear factor, replacing it with gore, which is more of a 'okay that's not scary, just gross' sense.
That's nice. Some cool editing tricks there. And of cause the golden rule of horror - the making of irrational decisions by the protagonist!
Wouldn't it be cool to write an app that put strange shapes in cell phone photos.
Jamie wrote: "Wouldn't it be cool to write an app that put strange shapes in cell phone photos."I was totally thinking the same thing. But only when you take selfies. It would insert various slasher movie characters in the background.
And after have it so the next time you look it isn't there. But the time after it's back.
I get the chills and scares from stories about malevolent spirits. I fully believe in ghosts, and when those ghosts aren't exactly friendly, it scares me a bit. I also get creeped out by alien elements in my reading material. Even though I am a big wuss, I enjoy horror novels and films. The books I process much better than movies, and I NEVER watch scary movies alone. It's the adrenaline rush I like, and trying to rationalize the way the "bad guys" think and act.
What makes you cringe, what grosses you out, what makes it hard for you to walk in the dark??
Seriously, what gives you the creeps and if you read or watch horror, what attracts you to those books/movies?