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[carsonshepherd]

Since I had no parental supervision as a child I watched it and became hysterical. I think I need therapy Thanks, Mom and Dad.

 

[rgraham666]

Shudder. The Hitcher.

I had forgotten about that movie, with good reason.

No one has mentioned Silence of The Lambs and Hannibal Lecter yet. Now there was a scary monster.

Forget Hannibal, the movie that is. They gave it a happy ending. The book on the other hand, the ending seriously freaked me out. Killing people in horrid manners and eating them is one thing. Remaking their minds and souls to suit your purpose, SNARLLL!

 

[shereads]

Strangely, my favorite movie based on a Stephen King story was "the Shawshank Redemption," one of his non-horror stories.

The Green Mile.

I had a bad feeling about that mouse.

 

[yui]

(p.s. yui, thanks for letting us know that you're a "large chicken". I've always wondered what the other half of face looked like).

You made me cluckle, I mean, chuckle.

 

[Kassiana]

Pet Sematary freaked me out as a kid.

Oddly enough, I have less trouble with written horror than visual horror. The only time I've deliberately skipped reading parts of horror novels is when they describe pain from torture in loving detail. I don't like knowing how it feels to have your foot chopped off with an axe or having your arm suspended while you have a broken collarbone so it won't heal, thank you very much, Stephen King and Dick Francis.

When it comes to horror movies, I will sometimes just turn my attention to the floor until the parts that most disturb me are done. Anything involving needles, bees/spiders, or graphic death is not a part of my movie.

 

[shereads]

My mom wouldn't even let me watch it, but I was so freaked by the commercials that I couldn't sleep. Finally I watched 'The Day After' about four years ago when I was pregnant with my son. Huge mistake. Like I wasn't emotional enough!

I don't know why I always have to watch movies like that, it's like I can't help myself. There are a couple of others like 'The Quiet Earth' and 'The Stand'. Yikes.

Apparently The Day After caused enough public outcry to nudge our gov't toward a nuclear non-proliferation treaty. (Saw something about it on PBS last month.) Isn't it bizarre how, for decades, we lived with the idea that we could be vaporized, even taught school kids the "Duck & Cover" song, but not until a movie showed what it might be like did a lot of people get seriously scared about the idea of mutual assured destruction.

"Look, honey, it's on TV. Being flash-fried isn't nearly as painless as I thought it would be. We should call our congressman."

 

[carsonshepherd]

I'm with you, Kass. I'm much too impressionable for visual horror. The scenes will get into my dreams and magnify.

 

[NoJo]

I'm with you, Kass. I'm much too impressionable for visual horror. The scenes will get into my dreams and magnify.

*pout* *whine*

 

[yui]

Yui - I'm with you, White Noise looks, from the trailers, to be very scary. I've listened to some of those actual recordings (SIMA posted a link to them some time back), and they made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Spooky shit.

Cloudy, I have always known you were a very smart woman. I don't want any recorders in my house! If ghosts are trying to tell me something, I would rather pretend I didn't get the message. That stuff scares the pee out of me.

 

[shereads]

I'm with you, Kass. I'm much too impressionable for visual horror. The scenes will get into my dreams and magnify.

That's how I feel about brutal violence in movies, even when it's offscreen and implicit. No "Silence of the Lambs" for me, thank you. I threw up yesterday. I'll rent it if I decide to become bulemic.

The first horror film that I remember liking, but also having nightmares about, was Hitchcock's "The Birds" when I was eight years old. We had a parakeet at home who was anti-child (he had his reasons) and I treated him with more respect after that.

 

[yui]

Pet Sematary freaked me out as a kid.

When it comes to horror movies, I will sometimes just turn my attention to the floor until the parts that most disturb me are done. Anything involving needles, bees/spiders, or graphic death is not a part of my movie.

Agreed. When things get gross, I cover my eyes and peek, just like a kid.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Agreed. When things get gross, I cover my eyes and peek, just like a kid.

I always holler when I see a shark on TV. "Make it go away!!!"

 

[Kassiana]

She: you had a parakeet? Freaking cool. I have three right now, and have owned them since four days before my eighth birthday.

Non-graphic horror movies I can take, but not the deep in blood and guts kind. Good to know there are others out there like me.

My husband really hated Deep Blue Sea. It combined things he's very afraid of, drowning/being underwater a prime one.

 

[carsonshepherd]

*pout* *whine*

Are you horny again Joe?

 

[NoJo]

(Carson: no. had a nice cup of tea + wank, thanks)

I don't know if it's a urban myth, but I've eard that more men are scared of spiders than are women, and more women are afraid of mice than are men.

Anybody here gender-bending in that respect?

 

[yui]

I always holler when I see a shark on TV. "Make it go away!!!"

Just to be clear, you did not mean this in a funny way, right? Because I feel as if my laughter is inappropriate.

I go deep sea fishing quite a bit and someone almost always catches a shark. It is usually a small one (or the line would break) but I am always waiting for Jaws to come rising from the deep, looking her baby, while someone I love/like is hanging over the side of the boat, cutting the line. I don't realize just how tense I am until the baby shark is freed and everyone has their bits back in the boat, and I can relax.

Ever been swimming (not diving, just swimming off a boat) in the middle of the ocean? Now, to me, that is a creepy sensation! What's beneath you? Sharks, giant squid, undiscovered deepwater creatures with a taste for Asian food? Oy! http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/tier/641.gif

 

[shereads]

She: you had a parakeet? Freaking cool. I have three right now, and have owned them since four days before my eighth birthday.

Non-graphic horror movies I can take, but not the deep in blood and guts kind. Good to know there are others out there like me.

My husband really hated Deep Blue Sea. It combined things he's very afraid of, drowning/being underwater a prime one.

Fantasy stuff like The Birds I can deal with. But brutal violence, even when there's no blood on-screen, makes me sick. It's like bringing the worst stories from the nightly news to life. Pulp Fiction - great film, I could appreciate that, but I hated being there. Felt queasy during the scenes where the black hit-man is tormenting his victim by preaching to him before he kills him. Left during the set-up for Bruce Willis to be tortured by the Nazi-souvenir-store owner.

Just hearing a conversation at the office about "Hannibal," the sequel to Silence of the Lambs, made me worry about the imagination that could produce torture scenes like that.

Another well-done movie that I wished I hadn't seen was "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" with Diane Keaton. Based on a true story about a teacher who picks up men in bars for one-night stands (this was pre-AIDS of course) and is stabbed to death by her last date. There's nothing at all to see - there's a strobe light in her apartment so you only see jerky movements and shapes. But the sounds of her struggling went on for minute after minute. No music, just sounds of her trying to fight him off and live. I was in tears. My knees were too weak to leave the theater. Had nightmares about it for ages afterwards. It was so real.

 

[Kassiana]

SJ:
but I've eard that more men are scared of spiders than are women, and more women are afraid of mice than are men.

Anybody here gender-bending in that respect?

Ahem.

Anything involving needles, bees/spiders, or graphic death is not a part of my movie.

I'm female.

 

[yui]

(Carson: no. had a nice cup of tea + wank, thanks)

I don't know if it's a urban myth, but I've eard that more men are scared of spiders than are women, and more women are afraid of mice than are men.

Anybody here gender-bending in that respect?

As long as it is not a whole whopping colony, I can deal with either. I walk on my tip-toes and squeal (that high-pitched tea kettle sound) when I cope with a live mouse, but it doesn't really feel like fear as much as a reflex. And, as long as it isn't on my person, or advancing menacingly on my person, I can cope with spiders just fine. http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/tier/spider1.gif

 

[shereads]

I think mice are cute. My mom used to feel the same way. She'd cry when she'd set a mouse trap.

The problem with rats, image-wise, is that their hairless tails are just large enough to look like a long pink arm. With mice, the tail isn't nearly as evident as the cute little face and the squeaky, "Hello there! Thanks for the cube of cheese, I can't wait to try some. Is it ched ---- <SNAP> ulp."

Need to go cry about mice now.

 

[rgraham666]

There's only one dangerous animal, but most of the time you have to act as if he's as sweet and loving as a cobra. - Robert A. Heinlein

So I'm off to work on my story about the most horrible monster in existence.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Insects don't bother me so most movies about them don't scare me. Snakes have no effect on me. Nor mice, except when they startle me. Sharks and grasshoppers are the ones I can't handle.

My BF is so funny. He's scared of mice - calls them all rats - and snakes. Just cracks me up that the big tough ex-marine seargent won't go up int he attic because "the rats will get him."

 

[NoJo]

SJ:
but I've eard that more men are scared of spiders than are women, and more women are afraid of mice than are men.

Anybody here gender-bending in that respect?

Ahem.

I'm female.

Well I'm not, and I'm definitely more of an archnophobe. So that proves it. In fact, nothing will convince me you're female, short of a picture of your pussy. Sorry. I'm just a great believer in hard scientific evidence.

 

[cloudy]

Mice don't bother me. Rats, on the other hand.....

I've owned horses most of my life, and spent enough time in barns to not be too afraid of either, but I have a healthy respect for rats.

Snakes and I have an agreement: I leave them alone and they leave me alone.

Spiders....eh...I catch those and take them outside.

 

[matriarch]

I'm with you, Kass. I'm much too impressionable for visual horror. The scenes will get into my dreams and magnify.

I am soooooo glad I rarely....and I mean rarely......remember my dreams.As far as my head is concerned, I didn't dream. Nothing remains.

But it was strange the time I woke my self up laughing hysterically (no I don't remember why), and another, woke up because I had bitten my tongue and made it bleed.

As a note, I also rarely watch so-called horror, psycho movies.....I like to be entertained, not scared shitless.

Mat-wimp.