[ SECRET POST #2665 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2665 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What do think is the best medium for horror?

[(Anonymous)]

Depends. I scare easily so most formats work for me on at least some levels. I'll probably plump for books & movies in the end, though. I remembering actually flinging a book away from me once (the scene was sort of like the show scene from Psycho but with a much tighter immersion because it was 1st person POV and the author had done a really good job ramping tension), and movies scare me ridiculously often.

Video games are a complicated example for me. I don't play them much, so I've only felt the effect a couple of times, but they actually tend to irrationally anger me more than scare me. That's because my fight-or-flight responses tend to trend towards fight, and when I feel responsible for the character I'm playing I find myself instinctively trying to physically fight for them and then being helplessly angered when I can't, because they're on the other side of a screen. I was actually forbidden from playing the Wii because I almost put the controller through the screen during a game while trying to actually and physically fight the enemy I was facing. When the immersion is that deep, it doesn't scare me the way books or movies do, it triggers my actual fight-or-flight responses instead, and then I get angry when they've nowhere to go.

Re: What do think is the best medium for horror?

[dreemyweird]

>I remembering actually flinging a book away from me once

Wow. What was the book in question? Maybe I should read it.

Re: What do think is the best medium for horror?

[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunately I don't remember titles very well, and it was years back when I was a teenager (which may have played a role in the strength of my reaction). It was definitely one of the Point Horror series, though, set in a school.

Re: What do think is the best medium for horror?

[dreemyweird]

Pity. This series is so big, there is no hope of finding this particular scene (especially since I haven't read any of the novels).

But I think there is a good chance of its being actually scary. I find that in literature, the most horrifying works (the "I can't sleep with the lights off" kind of horrifying) are the cheapish YA/children's folklore ones. They appeal to the subconscious.