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kalayna_price in fangs_fur_fey

Hello mister tall, dark, and terrifying

Oct 15, 2010 13:55

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midnightblooms October 15 2010, 18:28:37 UTC

I don't like scary movies as a rule. Scary books are fine, but I don't want to see the scary, I want to imagine it.

No blood-n-guts or slasher films, please. I prefer creepy, eerie, and nail-biting suspense. Give me Hitchcock. (Except Psycho because I like taking showers.) And don't show me the monster unless it's to get a laugh. (I'll avoid my rant about how Mr. Lucas killed the suspense in Empire Strikes Back, Special Edition.)

Hallowe'en traditions: watching The Nightmare Before Christmas, Young Frankenstein, The Great Pumpkin, and Garfield's Hallowe'en during October. This year I'm reading The Graveyard Book with my kids.

kalayna_price October 15 2010, 21:27:00 UTC

If we look at the history of horror, you usually aren't shown the monster. Traditionally I'm sure that was because the technology wasn't there. Now we have plenty of special effects and CG, but I personally think the creepier movies still avoid showing the monster (unless, like you said, it is for a laugh). I guess as a whole, our imaginations are way creepier than what our eyes can perceive. ^_^

I love the Nightmare Before Christmas but I've never really thought of it has a Halloween movie. Maybe I'll pop it in the dvd player once I'm done writing tonight. ^_^

midnightblooms October 18 2010, 14:03:51 UTC

Well, The Nightmare Before Christmas is technically a Christmas movie (and we watch it then, too), but there is so much fun Halloween creepiness that we pull it out early. :)

midnightblooms October 18 2010, 14:05:21 UTC

That's me above. LJ logged me out. :P

_hallow_ October 17 2010, 05:01:38 UTC

I'm always scared more by the monster/killer that makes me feel powerless to stop it. For instance, Michael Myers never scared me because he was always just a man. Sure, in the movies, he seems pretty unstoppable. But in my head, I could still take him down because he's solid and I watched too much Power Rangers as a kid. But Freddy Krueger scared the piss out of me when I was a kid because he could get you in your sleep. As I grew older, he stopped scaring me too, though, because I realized I had a pretty strong imagination and would be brutal in my dreams ( ... )