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Started by Damar, October 09, 2011, 07:56:42 PM

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Damar

It's October and I've already got my Netflix (sorry, Quickster) queues filled up with horror movies and I'm looking for a good horror book to read.  I've always loved Halloween as well and the fact that you can embrace the darker parts of our human nature.  So in honor of October and Halloween, I wanted to see what scares people.  Any specific books, movies, video games, or actual phobias that people have and are willing to share?

Deloria

Spiders and extreme heights are the two normal phobias I have. :P

Aside from that, most of my other phobias are extremely personal and based on bad experiences I've had. :P I have had an irrational fear of older, male strangers (even though I'm sure most of them are very nice) ever since a hotel employee held me down and licked my face in Jordan. :-\ It doesn't sound so terrible, but I was 15 and scared to death. :P
 
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That's awful Deloria! And no, not remotely silly. Anyone would be terrified. :/

My particular fears are spiders and death in general (the concept overall). If I think of others, I'll post more.

Of note, though intellectually I know horror movies are fake, far-fetched, and so forth, I cannot watch them at night without having trouble sleeping. If it's day time, and I can make fun of it, etc, I'll be fine. And yet nonetheless, I have a weird fascination with horror.

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Deloria

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That's one of the reasons I hate horror movies. XD When I was younger, I realised that there was no need to put myself through them if they terrified me and made me have trouble sleeping. :P I haven't really watched them since. :P I do like psychological thrillers though. I just don't like the idea of a masked murderer creeping up on people with a sharp object. XD

Quote from: KatieHal on October 09, 2011, 08:37:29 PM
That's awful Deloria! And no, not remotely silly. Anyone would be terrified. :/
It was pretty terrible. I went to my parents' room in tears and insisted on sleeping on the couch there because I had charged ice cream to my room and so he knew where I was staying. My mother made it so many times worse by sneaking up on me in the morning and grabbing me and gasping in my ear. Repeatedly. She thought she was hilarious.
 
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Fierce Deity

I just saw Paranormal Activity, and I have to say, the movie was very over-hyped. There was nothing scary about it. Just a lot of weird sounds. I'm gonna see the sequel to see if it's any better, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.

I have a bad case of vertigo, but I've slowly been getting over it by the tasks that I have to do at work. As long as I know I'm secure, I won't really freak out even at 15 feet in the air. But I have no problem flying on airplanes. So I would say I'm scared of heights to a very small degree. I would have to be falling nonsuspended from a great height. But even then, I'd be more scared of hurting myself, or dying.

I'm scared of death, but it's mostly because of the 'unknown'. I'm scared of not knowing what would happen afterwards. I've seen family members die peacefully, and have known people who died in vicious car accidents. As soon as death happens though, I assume what happens afterwards would be anybody's guess. But I'm afraid of the aftermath more than anything.
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Deloria

 
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KatieHal

Oh, Lamb, no wonder we "get along" the way we do!  :smack:

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Quote from: KatieHal on October 09, 2011, 09:52:03 PM
Oh, Lamb, no wonder we "get along" the way we do!  :smack:

Out of curiosity Katie, in that emoticon, which one is Lambonius and which one is you?
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Big C from Cauney island

Fear 2 was a scary video game.  Overall, I don't like scary stuff. I hate to be scared. My biggest fear is being eaten alive by a shark. I freak out anytime I'm in the ocean. If the water if up to my hips, I feel a sense of primal fear. 

I used to get suprised a lot playing the first doom game. Oh! almost forgot. The scariest video game I ever played is Silent Hill 2. Absolutely freaky. The 7th Guest was somewhat scary, but not horrible.

I'll try to think of more, but I want to be able to sleep tonight. I really hate scary things. 

   

Lambonius

Quote from: KatieHal on October 09, 2011, 09:52:03 PM
Oh, Lamb, no wonder we "get along" the way we do!  :smack:

Haha...I was just kidding.  It was actually supposed to be a subtle South Park reference.  Anyone who hasn't watched the ginger episode of South Park needs to go find it and see it now.  It's hilarious.

Damar

For me, actual phobias include spiders and bugs in general as well as needles and piercing skin in general.  I'm fine with blood, I'm fine with guts.  I just can't stand seeing skin get cut.  And that phobia is why, even though I love watching horror films, I just don't do slasher movies.  I watch supernatural horror but never the deranged killer type because I know there will be more cutting.

In general, living dolls and ventriloquist dummies really freak me out.  There is something about them that is just wrong.  I think it's the fact that when things are not as they should be, or are unnatural, I get unsettled.  A perfect example would be The Shining.  The perfect symmetry of the shots, the twins who dress the same and hold hands and talk in unison.  Everything in that movie is unnatural or is shot that way.  And because of that, it's the movie that scares me the most.  In the American version of The Ring, it was the killer video that scared me more than anything else in the movie.  It was just unnatural.  But yeah, dolls and dummies are just...wrong.

As far as video games, the only one I've found unsettling was Clive Barker's Undying.  It's a shooter that has its corny and derivative moments, but over all it really has an unsettling atmosphere.  I loved playing that game.

KatieHal

Quote from: Fierce Deity on October 09, 2011, 10:30:16 PM
Quote from: KatieHal on October 09, 2011, 09:52:03 PM
Oh, Lamb, no wonder we "get along" the way we do!  :smack:

Out of curiosity Katie, in that emoticon, which one is Lambonius and which one is you?

Oh, I'm definitely the green one. :)

I'm also kind of afraid of the dark. Not as much as when I was a kid, but just having your vision cut off like that, it's unnerving to say the least!

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Delling

Belonephobia-fear of needles (and sharp pointy objects in general)

I used to be scared of the dark a lot more too.

I hate horror films and gore... after the initial shock, I can be very pragmatic/practical about such things when encountering them in the real world.

Quote from: Deloria on October 09, 2011, 08:53:50 PM
My mother made it so many times worse by sneaking up on me in the morning and grabbing me and gasping in my ear. Repeatedly. She thought she was hilarious.
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Really fascinating ruins.
 
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Quote from: Deloria on October 10, 2011, 10:33:54 AM
Really fascinating ruins.

This.  And fears?  Every since Arachnophoboia, definitely big spiders.  And not really fear of them in general, I just get freaked out a bit when I stumble across a big one unexpectedly.

And heights.
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I'm afraid of the dilution of artistic quality in output do to the proliferation of the internet and political correctness.


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Quote from: Blackthorne on October 10, 2011, 02:10:17 PM
I'm afraid of the dilution of artistic quality in output do to the proliferation of the internet and political correctness.


Bt

This x 2.
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Rosella

To be fair, the internet allows almost anyone to have the tools required to make a creative work, if they have the passion to do so. Sure, this means we get a lot of crappy stuff from people with no training, but it opens up the field for so many people who can't afford the "proper" tools or "proper" training to bring their ideas to fruition. Giving everyone the ability to make art can't be a bad thing.

I have nothing to say for political correctness. :P
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