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[lissie_pissie]

I have started like three shorts and I hate all of them.
So I ask you, in the spirit of my Halloween deadline,

What is the scariest thought to you?No, really. And don't be afraid to get absolutely morbid disgusting on me. Want. The more fucked-up, the better. What's your biggest fear, your biggest dread, your biggest worry, worst recurring dream,

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[iwant_sprinkles]

Very little legit scares me in terms of horror films. Things disgust or disturb me, but almost never scare me. And I avoid the shit out of things that disgust or disturb me, so I'm short on examples :/ Generally the things most scary to me are things that relate to human nature, that are plausible. I think Silence of the Lambs will forever be the scariest film I've seen. I know that SOMETHING really freaked me out recently but I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT AND IT'S BUGGING ME. BUT OH, random thing that made my skin crawl - my dad was telling me about a drama that's just aired here about a serial killer who tried to keep his victims alive but kept failing. Just, idk, the idea of someone doing all of this shit to someone and trying to keep them alive through it. Horrible.

OH OH, I REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS THAT REALLY FUCKING HORRIFIED ME. I was reading about the Nuremberg Code and human experimentation by the Nazis and the Japanese in WWII. I knew that human experimentation went on, just never any details. I think I was reading something on ONTD_P about Tuskegee and it sort of spiraled and I got sucked into ~further reading~. Anything involving the Holocaust has always absolutely horrified me and I find it hard to watch films based on it because I just get so disturbed. So really, just... things based in reality, genuine atrocities, the knowledge of the truly evil things that mankind is capable of - all infinitely more terrifying to me than any ghoul or monster.

Though my "biggest fears" are entirely different and not really horror film fodder anyway - mediocrity, loss, change, not getting the chance to have children, illness... So ha, it's always dramas that scare me the most, in a sense.

AHH RANDOM OTHER THOUGHT!! I'm reading an anthology of Roald Dahl's short stories, and they are so brilliant and macabre, and I love that in horror. Stories that have a dark & twisted wit to them. And these all have wonderful little wicked twists that are gross and creepy but that make me throw back my head and laugh when I read the last sentence and that could be an interesting route. A story with revenge or karma or irony like so many of Dahl's short stories seem to be, AND I KNOW YOU LOVE KARMA. I just thought this was kind of interesting, with them being short stories and you making a short film.

UGH I MISS MEDIA STUDIES RIGHT NOW.

THIS WAS LONG. AND PROBABLY NOT EVEN ALL THAT USEFUL BUT OH WELL.

[lesaubergines]

I LOVE ROALD DAHL'S SHORT STORIES, OH MY GOD! Which collection are you reading?

Anything related to the Holocaust makes me disturbed/cry.

[iwant_sprinkles]

I'm reading The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl, which is a bunch of the anthologies thrown into one book. I think it's basically everything but Tales of the Unexpected/More Tales of the Unexpected? I'm reading Kiss Kiss at the moment, and I get such a fucking kick out of the endings, oh my God. It's making me want to really sink my teeth into a really great novel, though, argh!