I’m tired of the books I’ve been reading and would like book suggestions for something scary. I know fear is a personal thing and that what one person finds scary another person doesn’t so I’ve listed what movies, tv, and stories I found scary and why.
Movies
House of Wax (Vincent Price): I think it was the two identities…Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde.
Pit and the Pendulum (Vincent Price)—Hey, crazy man with two personalities tortures and kills, then entombs a victim forever. What’s not scary about that?
Wait Until Dark—Whole messing with the victim’s head idea.
Aliens—The idea of something growing inside you.
Jaws—I think it’s the timing…lull you into a false sense of security, then BAM!
The Mummy—Mostly just fun, but there were moments especially when the group was being tracked in a dark maze that I found scary.
TV episodes
x-files:
Ice—The worms that would take over the victims’ brains and change their personality
Detour—Chameleon-like beast that picks of members of the group out in the woods one by one.
Folie a Deux—Call center workers are bitten by a monstrous insect that turns them into zombies/drones but they look completely normal to everyone else.
Occasionally man v animal stories—if they’re told right. (Sasquatch, yeti, etc.)
Ghost stories.
Books/short stories
Dracula—still scares me if it’s night and I’m alone
I read this one vampire story that took place in Viking times. Basically the vampire came into the village in winter time—when the sun never rises. (I know, I know, “30 days of Night” only I heard that both the movie and the book sucked)
The Most Dangerous Game—Man is the apex predator.
Stories I didn’t find scary:
The Shining
The Ruins—not suspenseful or scientific enough. You knew right from the start that everyone would die. You knew that the giant plant would kill them but not why.
1408—Made no sense, was just odd
The Ring—Weird/gross imagery. Just not scary.
Any horror story involving incest or necrophilia. Not scary at all, just squicky. Eww.
Stories I find scary but not in a good way: Satanic ritual, demonic possession, etc.
So CS members, scare me!
Movies
House of Wax (Vincent Price): I think it was the two identities…Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde.
Pit and the Pendulum (Vincent Price)—Hey, crazy man with two personalities tortures and kills, then entombs a victim forever. What’s not scary about that?
Wait Until Dark—Whole messing with the victim’s head idea.
Aliens—The idea of something growing inside you.
Jaws—I think it’s the timing…lull you into a false sense of security, then BAM!
The Mummy—Mostly just fun, but there were moments especially when the group was being tracked in a dark maze that I found scary.
TV episodes
x-files:
Ice—The worms that would take over the victims’ brains and change their personality
Detour—Chameleon-like beast that picks of members of the group out in the woods one by one.
Folie a Deux—Call center workers are bitten by a monstrous insect that turns them into zombies/drones but they look completely normal to everyone else.
Occasionally man v animal stories—if they’re told right. (Sasquatch, yeti, etc.)
Ghost stories.
Books/short stories
Dracula—still scares me if it’s night and I’m alone
I read this one vampire story that took place in Viking times. Basically the vampire came into the village in winter time—when the sun never rises. (I know, I know, “30 days of Night” only I heard that both the movie and the book sucked)
The Most Dangerous Game—Man is the apex predator.
Stories I didn’t find scary:
The Shining
The Ruins—not suspenseful or scientific enough. You knew right from the start that everyone would die. You knew that the giant plant would kill them but not why.
1408—Made no sense, was just odd
The Ring—Weird/gross imagery. Just not scary.
Any horror story involving incest or necrophilia. Not scary at all, just squicky. Eww.
Stories I find scary but not in a good way: Satanic ritual, demonic possession, etc.
So CS members, scare me!
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