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Boo! What do you still find scary!

 
  

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Spatula Clarke
10:14 / 16.07.02
Don't get me wrong, Don't Look Now is a very disturbing film. It's just the dwarf bit is... odd. Has it been the dwarf every time Sutherland thinks it's his daughter? Was it his daughter leading him to his death? Was he actually seeing the figure, or was he picking up psychic echoes of the crimes from the surroundings?

Sorry, Zocher. Didn't mean to belittle anyone's fear.
 
 
The Natural Way
10:07 / 17.07.02
Not to rationalise now! Bad man!

It's all about the emotions in DLK, and there's something about the terrible events at the end that make sense - internal sense. Forget trying to figure it out: IMO this isn't empirical stuff. The only thread to follow's composed of mood and feeling.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
11:18 / 17.07.02
But... but... trying to explain illogical sequences of events in fiction is fun. Just look at all them Invisibles threads we used to have (winking smiley).
 
 
odd jest on horn
04:03 / 18.07.02
quote by SFD:
"That period when your eyes aren't quite adjusted to the dark - and you think you see an axe-murderer/cthulhu/ghost/whatever in the corner"

no, rothkoid - they are there. that period when your eyes are adjusting to the dark is the only time your eyes really see....

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I just read this and now I'm bloody scared.
 
 
odd jest on horn
04:14 / 18.07.02
the dark

What really scares me is when I convince myself that the only lightbulb in the room is about to go out, get really worked up about it for about 2 secs.
and then it goes.

and i'm all alone in the dark.
I don't know if it's my PK blowing the lightbulb or if subconsciously pick up some sound that tells me it's gonna go, but this happens much too often.


I'm pretty good at working myself into a scare frenzy.

Once I was taking a shower at night, and I started worrying about what would happen if my gf would come in. Would I get scared, thinking it was an intruder with a knife? Would I faint, smashing my skull in the process. Would there be blood everywhere?

What was that sound? Blood everywhere, psycho, the shining. I wouldn't hear if she entered. Anyone might be there, staring at me through the curtain. With a knife.

And of course she did walk in on me about a minute later. I screamed for a minute straight. She told me I'd gone all white and crazy in the eyes. Luckily I didn't faint.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
10:32 / 18.07.02
A lot of good film references in this thread but I have also found listening to a good, scary bit of theatre on the radio can really creep me out: The Man In Black or some high gothic Edgar Allan Poe.

Poe in Corman/Hammer Horror guise is good stuff but the camp edge of the films can work against the terror. The Tomb of Lygeia or The Pit and the Pendulum would be grrrrruesome in a darkened bathroom with a candle flickering and the radio whispering menacingly.
 
 
grant
16:36 / 18.07.02
Old radio show: Lights Out!

They will all terrify you, even if you're listening (as I always was) in a moving car. After dark. Where the THINGS can GET YOU!!
 
 
Shortfatdyke
16:59 / 18.07.02
the moon used to scare me. i could see a face on the full moon and i always thought it was glaring at me. i remember at least once hiding in the wardrobe to get away from it. now i find it friendly - i feel like it's smiling down on me.

what freaks me out big time now is someone close behind me on a flight of stairs. i get almost dizzy about it.
 
  

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