[ SECRET POST #3043 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3043 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

14. http://i.imgur.com/Nx5h8Kq.png

[spacebabie]

I kind of feel ya. I grew up watching all kinds of horror movies. Started with Poltergeist when I was six and then the 80's slasher flicks. I got to see Aliens at the theater...and nothing. Nothing really scared me. Squick? hell yeah but nothing scared me until the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth.

[lb_lee]

Well, it's Doug Jones. He is good at creepy body language! And Pan's Labyrinth is a pretty crushing story in general.

--Rogan

[dethtoll]

I didn't have that problem but I kind of oversaturated myself with horror and now very little of it works on me. Especially games.

[kallanda_lee]

Honestly, if they can get me to jolt in my chair 3 times or more, that's a success.

[kamino_neko]

Most horror hasn't scared me in ages. (Games can, but movies and books can't*.) Still love it, for the stories.

* The last book which scared me was the Stand...and that was only because I made the mistake of rereading it while suffering from a lung infection.

[(Anonymous)]

If you want a genuinely scary book, I recommend House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. I have no idea why, but the book's... unsettling, to put it lightly. I've never been able to finish it, because I can only read a few pages before I start to feel like I'm being watched by something I can't see; I felt uncomfortable even having it next to me while I was sleeping. I'm like the OP, I can't be scared by any horror fiction anymore, but something about House of Leaves is just... off.

[evewithanapple]

For what it's worth regarding The Exorcist specifically, I had a film professor who actually stopped showing it in class because people kept falling asleep. His theory was that the paradigm for movies has shifted so much since the seventies (what with jumpscares and all) old horror just isn't horrifying anymore. The pace is too slow.

[(Anonymous)]

Never saw the movie, but the book seriously creeped me out back when i read it a couple of years ago! But yeah, I always guessed the movie was maybe a little dated nowadays... I thought Legion was a pretty damn good sequel though. I guess it was more creepy and tense than actually scary, but it has some great moments. The corridor scene has my absolute favorite use of a jumpscare ever :D

[evewithanapple]

I love the book! In a lot of ways I think it's actually creepier than the movie- the spider-crawl scene is based on that scene in the book where Regan spider-walks behind the maid and flicks her tongue at her ankle. It's this screamy moment in the movie, but in the book it's so much creepier because the nanny doesn't know she's there. She just walks into the room, and Chris looks up and sees her.

Plus, I really liked Blatty's prose, so that helped.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, music video-style editing might have killed psychological horror films. Just blame MTV. :P

[herpymcderp]

lol did I post this secret in my sleep or something?

[croik]

Try games, anon. I love horror movies, too, but the only thing that can give me a good fright now are games. I don't know if it's just because there's more at stake (game over) but it's at least more absorbing. Like Outlast, or in a less conventional way, Bloodborne. Even the first Five Nights At Freddy's is worth a look if you ever grew up with Chuck E Cheese.

[khronos_keeper]

Some of the most horrifying movies to me aren't horror, if that helps? For example, some of Ingmar Bergman's films (like Hour of the Wolf) are quite terrifying to me, even though they're technically arthouse films.

I'm kind of the opposite.

[(Anonymous)]

I like horror movies, unless they are torture porn or really realistic-gore heavy. But they pretty much all scare me and it doesn't seem to matter how many times I've seen them. Every once in a great while, I'll run into one that I think is too stupid to be scary, but it takes a lot (I mean, I still jumped at parts of Anaconda and, damn, if that movie isn't eye-roll inducing). Of course, my imagination may be doing some of the heavy lifting.

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[(Anonymous)]

Image: cover/poster for The Exorcist

Text; I love horror, but so far I haven't found a movie that actually scared me. Either they're funny or they just make me angry.

[(Anonymous)]

Try Lars van Trier's Antichrist, maybe.