I am so, so easily scared. REally, it's pathetic. But at the same time I really LOVE horror films (not to include slasher flicks or torture porn). I have a really wild imagination and have a tendency to not be able to sleep for a long time after watching some horror flicks (i still can't watch The Exorcist without going sleepless).
The things that scare me most are hauntings or people who are possessed--including toys, mostly because ghosts are just so darned hard to get rid of and they defy logic. But those also end up being my favorites, like The Shining or Poltergeist.
I also think that mass murder movies that are based on true stories--especially ones where the victims are chosen arbitrarily, or basically tortured (i.e. hung up on meat hooks)--super scary.
I think my favorites are scary movies that end happily though, like Amityville Horror and Poltergeist, because they make me hopeful that I could survive something terrible like that. ha ha
Because I'm made of FAIL and can't edit the poll (unless someone is really intelligent and tells my some tricks!)
oh lady, I'm almost CRYING now because I forgot to mention The Exorcist (among the Occult) or Poltergeist (among the ghostie movies), such classical examples! I'm with you on the hauntings, they are second on my trigger list (after freaky moving women). Evil babies can be a bit unsettling to me, but they'd have to be really well acted and scripted otherwise I'm left cold. I'm split on the happy endings, on the one hand I'm like you, I kind of want it to end that way, on the other, I get way way more unsettled if it doesn't, and remember the movie better that way.
LOVE zombies too, don't know why, because they don't trigger me that much.
I think that's part of why I love them though. I adore "I am Legend" for instance, and will enjoy watching it many times, but it doesn't scare me. (not that it's a "real" zombie movie, but the same goes with some others)
dang, I know. I'm kicking myself now. (did you know that I have slept in the actual hotel of the Shining! I walked around the corridors where the twin girls stood bleeding and chanting Redroomredroomredroom)
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I am so, so easily scared. REally, it's pathetic. But at the same time I really LOVE horror films (not to include slasher flicks or torture porn). I have a really wild imagination and have a tendency to not be able to sleep for a long time after watching some horror flicks (i still can't watch The Exorcist without going sleepless).
The things that scare me most are hauntings or people who are possessed--including toys, mostly because ghosts are just so darned hard to get rid of and they defy logic. But those also end up being my favorites, like The Shining or Poltergeist.
I also think that mass murder movies that are based on true stories--especially ones where the victims are chosen arbitrarily, or basically tortured (i.e. hung up on meat hooks)--super scary.
I think my favorites are scary movies that end happily though, like Amityville Horror and Poltergeist, because they make me hopeful that I could survive something terrible like that. ha ha
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Because I'm made of FAIL and can't edit the poll (unless someone is really intelligent and tells my some tricks!)
oh lady, I'm almost CRYING now because I forgot to mention The Exorcist (among the Occult) or Poltergeist (among the ghostie movies), such classical examples! I'm with you on the hauntings, they are second on my trigger list (after freaky moving women). Evil babies can be a bit unsettling to me, but they'd have to be really well acted and scripted otherwise I'm left cold.
I'm split on the happy endings, on the one hand I'm like you, I kind of want it to end that way, on the other, I get way way more unsettled if it doesn't, and remember the movie better that way.
LOVE zombies too, don't know why, because they don't trigger me that much.
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i am more likely to sleep if there are survivors. lol
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perhaps they should be the most frightening of them all? hmmmmmmmm? lol
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