Scariest movies to me are anything that play with my real life fears. I HATE anything to do with children. Ghost kids, disembodied child voices, babies crying- any sort of violence towards kids really really bugs me out. I think it's more the destruction of innocence since kids are either innocent victims or they're used to put you at ease such as demons who take the form of kids or kids who are demonic (Damien from the Omen for example).
So the Ring really scared me only because the mother killed the child and that really traumatizes me. Which is why I didn't like the second one because it was advocating drowning the kid for his own good. Seriously yuck.
Haunted houses also bug me out but only up until the point where you see the thing that is haunting it. The first time I see it I jump out of my seat. The second time... well, I'm expecting it so it's not as scary. But when I movie continues where there's that thing lurking just out of eyesight and the music is more breaths then actual music... erg, goosebumps.
Novels are creepy when there's a feeling of helplessness and the person is fighting against odds that are stacked against them to the point where they shouldn't be able to fight back... and it'd be so easy to just let go and accept fate and die. Like the buried alive scenario and things like the Pit and the Pendulum. Situations where you're stuck and the only way out is equally as bad. It doesn't really fit in movies since I didn't like Saw nor did I find it scary but if it was a novel... I probably would have been more horrified.
Also in terms of monsters I find psychopathic thrillers more scary. Where it's a normal person that does these horrible things. Battle Royale the novel was pretty scary in this way. Normal kids forced to do abnormal things. The book really gave you an insight into all of the kid's minds and it was crazy.
Probably the scariest thing I've ever seen that's now hilarious was the Blob when I was four. Scared the BAJEESUS out of me but now I look back and go "dude, jello. wtf was wrong with me?"
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So the Ring really scared me only because the mother killed the child and that really traumatizes me. Which is why I didn't like the second one because it was advocating drowning the kid for his own good. Seriously yuck.
Haunted houses also bug me out but only up until the point where you see the thing that is haunting it. The first time I see it I jump out of my seat. The second time... well, I'm expecting it so it's not as scary. But when I movie continues where there's that thing lurking just out of eyesight and the music is more breaths then actual music... erg, goosebumps.
Novels are creepy when there's a feeling of helplessness and the person is fighting against odds that are stacked against them to the point where they shouldn't be able to fight back... and it'd be so easy to just let go and accept fate and die. Like the buried alive scenario and things like the Pit and the Pendulum. Situations where you're stuck and the only way out is equally as bad. It doesn't really fit in movies since I didn't like Saw nor did I find it scary but if it was a novel... I probably would have been more horrified.
Also in terms of monsters I find psychopathic thrillers more scary. Where it's a normal person that does these horrible things. Battle Royale the novel was pretty scary in this way. Normal kids forced to do abnormal things. The book really gave you an insight into all of the kid's minds and it was crazy.
Probably the scariest thing I've ever seen that's now hilarious was the Blob when I was four. Scared the BAJEESUS out of me but now I look back and go "dude, jello. wtf was wrong with me?"