So, from the few topics scattered around, it would seem horror is very varied from person to person. So I am just curious about what you think the scariest thing you've ever experienced is (event, literature, movie, game, etc)? Additionally, if you have any rationale behind it, why do you think it scared you so much?
For me, (in recent memory and off the top of my head) was an episode of Dr. Who. Dr. Who and his lady companion (I think it was from season 4 of the new series) were in this library where the monsters were like little bugs that make up a shadow. If you are in the dark, they would devour you down to the bone. And the scary part was that the corpses would still have voices and one of them chases them a ways. For me, skeletons and the dark freak me out. I know its sad for someone who is looking to go to med school be grosses out by skeletons, but, well, thats the way it is for me. If it has some muscle or flesh on it, im ok with it, but plain skeletons are freaky for me. Haha.
How about you guys?
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Two of the scariest things I've ever seen:
1. The "Hush" Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
2. Jeepers Creepers
I think the reason that these things scare me is that they both don't really speak, so you aren't quite sure of their intentions, they harvest parts of humans, and they seem practically invincible. I don't care for villains I can't overcome and I hate silence. Also, they have creepy smiles and teeth freak me out. I have nightmares about things with huge pointy teeth trying to eat me as well as nightmares about my teeth swelling and bursting out of my mouth, ick!
Ken, I'm pretty scared of skeletons, too. And just any things. I'm scared of pretty much anything, though I think the scariest thing I've ever seen was the TV movie-version of A Haunting in Connecticut--about demons and things. The worst parts (I don't even like to think about this) were when the demon showed up and it had entirely black eyes AND this moment earlier when the boys in the basement liked to leave the light on because they were scared at night and they got in trouble for using up so much electricity so their father took out the lightbulb and they all woke up in the middle of the night because THE LIGHT WAS ON AND THERE WAS NO LIGHTBULB BUT IT WAS COMING OUT OF THE FIXTURE LIKE IT WAS ACTUALLY THERE.
Ugh. UGH.
I guess I don't like things in the dark, and I don't like that the whole story had more an element of reality for me than they normally do because it ended in them calling in a priest and it had a very Catholic kind of solution (the whole house shook and stuff, if everything they portrayed in the movie was really what happened), and I know that there are priests who do exorcisms and things, and demons are as much a part of the belief system as angels--they're very specific beings--and really the most horrible ones to me are the ones that instead of ever showing up to just freak you out are there encouraging you and driving you toward sin and making you turn away from God--but I'm getting too much into religion. That's the point, though--it scares me because it falls more into the realm of possible than most stories.
And the thing about the light scared me because, while I am not really that afraid of the dark in the normal way anymore, I tend to have nightmares where I'm trapped in the dark--I'll go into a room and try to turn on the light but the light switch doesn't work, none of the light switches work, and the more I want to get out of the dark the less light there is and I start to feel really panicky and trapped. So there's a lot of play on light and darkness in my nightmares, and the idea of light where there's no possibility of light (as opposed to darkness when there should be light) is, I think, the scariest kind--because the light is supposed to be safe. The light is supposed to save you. If the light is bad, there's really nothing you can do.
GAH I shouldn't have written this at 1:30 a.m. I hope I can sleep tonight. T_T
OH and I just remembered also I'm scared of the basement of Gorgas, though somehow it was less scary Sunday night than it was a random dim Monday morning late last semester. I don't like that you're underground and there's no restroom and there are two elevators, one really sketchy and the other a bit sketchy, and I think stairs but I don't like the idea of the stairs down there either, and it's easy to get turned around and the shelves are close together and the air ducts make the ceiling really close, too, so that sometimes you're inches from hitting your head (at my average heigh), and they used to have that creepy part where the books were in cages or there was a cage in the way--I feel like they were locked up for real but maybe there weren't. When I asked the guy at the desk about it he just said he'd heard rumors and refused to elaborate on why there had been caged books (or if they weren't actually caged to begin with, or whether the books that used to be caged are still in the same place or got moved somewhere else for whatever reason). Also all the books on religion are down there and I have a friend who reports (rather sensationally... this may be slightly dubious info) that there are lots of creepy Satanic books.
ANYWAY. Yeah, that's creepy, too--feeling trapped. And again, the dark thing--no windows, getting lost in that area, the two elevators and stairs that I don't know where they are--the idea of being trapped. And this big blue emergency light that sticks out. Makes me think of what the place would look like if all the lights were out and just that light was on. I would probably die of panic or something.
Weird story but I was really afraid of the movie Idle Hands around 5th or 6th grade. After going back and watching it I'm not really sure why it scared me because it's actually a pretty funny movie but the first scene scared the living shit out of me. If you haven't seen it, you should watch it. I'll try and find a link when it's not 3 am.
I also went through the clown phase after IT. This fear wasn't helped by the fact my dad would tell me that he was going to dress up like a clown and come out from under my bed in the middle of the night.
The most recent thing I can remember really being scared of was the scene in the first Saw movie when the power goes off in his apartment and he uses the light from intermittant camera flashes to explore his apartment and look for the intruder who just happens to be hiding in his closet in a creepy pig mask.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=PnC5hxQQUh8&bmb=1
After the bloody face in the intro I'll probably be up for a while.. Enjoy
No matter how many times I watch it, I'm still scared of "The Shining". I think it's probably because it's the first scary movie I can remember watching.
Just the idea of someone being there when I turn my head really scares me. I still hate looking out windows at night or occassionally (if I've watched a scary movie) in mirros, haha.
We touched on this a little in class last week, but the scariest thing I can remember seeing was that one episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark with the dead kid haunting the school pool. The episode is actually called "The Tale of the Dead Man's Float" and I was probably around 8 or 9 when I first saw it. It really stuck with me, and I've never looked at a bathroom drain the same way ever since. It was intense. A quick google search will deliver unto you the entire episode, but for those who want to cut to the chase and just see the haunting face that scared the shit out of me as a small child (not to imply I'm cool with it now)...
(oh, and don't click if you don't like skeletons )
Sorry, guys, I'm a little more practical. The Birds. Alfred Hitchcock? Why? I AM TERRIFIED OF BIRDS. I almost wrecked my car the other day because a pack of the little feathered assholes tried to dive-bomb my car. This movie was so scary, when they dip down and eat people's faces... ugh! And it's all because of the stupid little lovebirds. I avoided crows for years after seeing this movie as a younger child....
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