TheSnarkKnight
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Watched--Tie between Alien and The Thing. Saw Alien when I was eight, and had nightmares for three years until I saw the other three. After seeing Alien, only The Thing scared me, simply because the creature effects had that uncanny valley thing going for them (i.e. they looked fake, but at the same time they seemed as if they were actually alive).
Read--House of Leaves. The Shining didn't scare me, but this book did. |
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Stephen King's Rose Red, a television miniseries that aired on NBC (I think) about ten years ago, freaked me out.
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Also, speaking of REC, hartzofspace, that's probably the most terrifying film I've seen. I watched it with my Dad, and then he went out, and I was alone in the house (night-time too)  |
Poor you! Yeah, that was one hell of a scary movie!
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Being very young and seeing a program on tv explaining that its very likely for an asteroid to hit the earth in our lifetime and potentially destroy us all... was overwhelmed with the feeling of impending doom for weeks to come...
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| I love horror films - The Thing, Nightmare on El Street series, Alien Series, Stephen Kings "IT" BUG is a great film as well very strange and you never quite know what is going on and such but still very good - Love Battle Royale 1 and 2 as well, quite old released in like the 80s but very good (Its Japanese) |
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GammaGeek
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I watched American Psycho last night. Thank you Christian Bale for forever ruining Huey Lewis and the News for me. I will never be able to listen to "It's Hip to be Square" again without thinking about some guy getting axed to death.
It wasn't really scary, but the fact that it's the most plausible horror I've seen does make it a little creepy. I mean, it IS likely that somewhere in the world, there is a seemingly boring business man who has murderous dreams so vivid that he himself thinks it's real. That's more realistic than the usual things I watch, which mostly revolve around fantasy and supernatural. So yeah, not scary, but still I really actually liked it. Still don't exactly understand if anyone actually died or not, but whatever.
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| GammaGeek wrote: | I watched American Psycho last night. Thank you Christian Bale for forever ruining Huey Lewis and the News for me. I will never be able to listen to "It's Hip to be Square" again without thinking about some guy getting axed to death.
It wasn't really scary, but the fact that it's the most plausible horror I've seen does make it a little creepy. I mean, it IS likely that somewhere in the world, there is a seemingly boring business man who has murderous dreams so vivid that he himself thinks it's real. That's more realistic than the usual things I watch, which mostly revolve around fantasy and supernatural. So yeah, not scary, but still I really actually liked it. Still don't exactly understand if anyone actually died or not, but whatever. |
I thought American Psycho was more funny than scary, but those are the two reactions the film tends to get from audiences. Some see it as a horror movie, others see it as a black comedy. The author of the book, Bret Easton Ellis, meant to satirize the materialistic yuppy culture, and largely based Patrick Bateman on his father. If you think the movie was messed up, try reading the book. |
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Simonono
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| hartzofspace wrote: | | Simonono wrote: |
Also, speaking of REC, hartzofspace, that's probably the most terrifying film I've seen. I watched it with my Dad, and then he went out, and I was alone in the house (night-time too) |
Poor you! Yeah, that was one hell of a scary movie! |
I just watched the second one, and it was pretty scary. Not much though, since I kind of knew what to expect. This one is plain weird, and religious, if anything. |
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I agree with the pent up tension in certain movies like the The Thing. I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head.
When I saw Invasion of the Body Snatchers as a kid, the 70's version I believe, both the fear of going to sleep and the shriek when you're discovered
after hiding amongst the alien body snatchers is pretty unsettling I thought. The mutants in the recent Hills have Eyes were creepy looking enough to make me check behind me when hiking. |
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tomboy4good
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| Quatermass wrote: | | One of the most scary books I have read is House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. |
Quatermass' avatar of Sheldon & his creepy smile...that's the most scary recent thing I've seen.
Read The Omen as a teen. It was pretty terrifying stuff (to me)...never saw the movie, the book was bad enough for visuals. Only book I've ever read that I got so disgusted by that I threw it across the room about halfway through it. Should have burned the damned thing, but I picked it up again & finished it. Finished the whole book in under 3 hours.
The other scary thing I saw was some idiot on a motorcycle doing a wheely in the fast lane going close to 100mph. That was terrifying! Good thing that happened before texting came along.
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| Most terrifying thing I've ever watched? Spice World |
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hartzofspace
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| genly wrote: | http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-087
I like this story. |
Me too, but what the heck IS that site about?
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| hartzofspace wrote: | | genly wrote: | http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-087
I like this story. |
Me too, but what the heck IS that site about? |
A community of people writing stories about an agency that investigates paranormal / sci-fi / supernatural stuff. |
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hartzofspace
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| genly wrote: | | hartzofspace wrote: | | genly wrote: | http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-087
I like this story. |
Me too, but what the heck IS that site about? |
A community of people writing stories about an agency that investigates paranormal / sci-fi / supernatural stuff. |
Oh. Thanks!
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