Be sure to check out the original, black & white 1963 movie The Haunting -- not the awful re-make of 1999!



Hahaha! That's cute!

-- Nephele

being locked in a nunnery would scare the hell out of me...

Other than that- I think witnessing a demonic possession (being either the possessed or just the witness) would be an ideal spook. Maybe seeing a full bodied spirit might do it.....hmmm so many possibilities.

I know that a lot of people didn't like the movie "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" but if I saw someone did the shit she did in that movie- yeah it would spook me.

I agree with you, Midi, that would scare me as well!

-- Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:35 pm --




Ha ha, thank you.

I'd say being scared is hard for me nowadays. I don't consider jumping at something sudden happening as "being scared", it's just a moment of fear, not a feeling of it. That's why I prefer psychological horrors. Ones that involve paranoia, the feeling of disbelief and huge plots that consist of stories, legends and experiences.

Ideally, and I'm talking about just films here, I'd go into a cinema and watch what I thought was a rom-com/drama/action film and begin to realise it's actually a psych horror. The reason for this is that I'd be startled by the change in genre because I'm prepared to watch an action or something instead. You kind of get in the right frame of mind when watching a horror or something because you know what to expect if that makes sense?

Outside of film, I like to feel a similar sense of fear. Instead of something scary looking coming at me, I think I see something but shake it off, then I see it again and think I'm going mad, then again and again until I accept it exists, then I question why me? Why do I have to see it, why does it have to harass me? Why not someone else? What does it want from me? Does it know I can see it? Then, whether this thing is real or not, it still exists, it still haunts and taunts me, chilling my spine at the very thought that it knows what I'm doing at all hours. Watching me. It probably knows it's taunting me and it probably enjoys it.

That's my perfect scare.

Nothing worse than playing it alone late at night in a dark room.

My ideal scare is being in a dark space and hearing 'threatening' noises (growling, scratching, hissing etc) from indeterminate directions. That's why I have a soft spot for Minecraft, so many caves!

Most excellent. Closest I've come is being to a local graveyard and having something follow me home. That was not a pleasant experience, utterly terrifying in fact. Needless to say I spend my time at a different graveyard now, my agenda is not to scare myself or go toe to toe with things better left be. I enjoy spending time, learning and experiencing the dark and mysterious.

Faceless things/people generally scare me the most.

I remember a dream I had as a child where these extremely tall faceless humanoids with huge craniums were coming through the walls of my bedroom, trying to grab me off my bed so they could stare me in the face and "MMMMMMMOOOOOOOAAAAAAANNNNNNNGGGGGHHHH!" through their lack of a mouth at me.
Then they kept trying to smother me and grab at my face while moaning loudly the whole time.

I also hate the idea of a giant-sized marionette/mannequin chasing me through the house.
Especially a faceless one.

Finally, as a kid, I'd always hide under the covers fearing that as soon as I pulled them off, I'd find an eyeless ghostly face screaming deafeningly an inch from my face.

I've also got intense claustrophobia, insectophobia (large flying insects mainly), and a slight fear of heights (not being up high so much as falling from them).

My worst way to die would be locked inside an airtight casket two sizes too small with a swarm of angry suzumebachi, and being dropped from an airplane.

^^^^
Interesting that the Harlequin's Mask of mind-breaking would just have to turn off to work on you (or flick between everything at once).

Are you a Lovecraft fan? If not you should be.

Also the movie thing makes perfect sense. I watched Jennifer's Body expecting a comedy, and while it's funny as fuck there's very little more horrifying than teenage girl politics.

Surprise ratty placed on my shoulder. It would freak me out for a second and then I'd get a free ratty-rat
If you wanted to SERIOUSLY scare me though, make me think I was buried alive. Scary scary scary.

Being in a dangerious universe where the only existing light is from my touch screen phone and the battery is going dead.

My ideal scare would be in a psychological hospital in the dead silence of a very dark night; there are no other humans around, and the beds are bloody. Dead creatures, such as zombies and the like- MURDEROUS creatures- come in the room, grabbing the sharp tools... I run into the hall, the silent, dark hall, with them close behind...

Ever since a child I've always had a fear/fantasy of finding myself lost in the woods near twilight, and having to find shelter and fend for myself, setting up a little woven-branch lean-to and forageing for food, and gradually becoming more familiar with the woods until I am no longer lost and the woods are my home.

If we're talking about more traditional "spooks", well, I guess I'd say ghosts, but to be honest, most of them don't really scare me.

I've said before that I've outgrown being frightened at night time. This is only mostly true. I've woken up in the middle of the night with the sudden realization that:
A. I have no gun.
B. Except for a chair and a stone mortar and pestle nothing in my room would make a good weapon.
C. As a human, I have no natural weapons. My nails and teeth are a joke and I'm probably really delicious.

Long story short, my ideal scare is freefloating anxiety about being attacked, apparently.