Better To Be Hated Than Loved For What You're Not.

[robanybody]

Sister: "You know what's in the heart, don't you?"
Me: "Groove is in the heaaaaaaaaaaaaart."
Sister: "...I love this stupid family so much."

So one of my favorite writers on Cracked is David Wong, not his actual name for a lot of reasons. A while back, he wrote a book called John Dies at the End that the brother-in-law bought because it's horror

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[charliehey]

Something about Jesse Eisenberg's face makes me want to punch it. You know people who have those faces? His is one of those for me. :x

[robanybody]

It's Michael Cera for me. It helps that he's a total tool in real life as well, so I feel absolutely no guilt for wanting to slap him until he cries.

[charliehey]

You know, other than Jamie and Matthias, I'm having trouble thinking of young male actors that I DON'T want to slap a lot.

[robanybody]

I'm actually having trouble coming up with actors in general that I don't want to face-punch. I mean, barring our tiny group of actors. Everybody pretty much pisses me off these days. :O

[nilchance]

That book was really original and interesting. Have you read House of Leaves? Also awesome for the slow creeping horror.

[robanybody]

I have not! Who writes House of Leaves?

[nilchance]

Mark Z. Danielewski. His sister is Poe, she wrote this concept album based off House of Leaves, which is how I found out about it.

[robanybody]

You know, I knew this when I read up on Poe a few months back, but my memory is apparently a terrible thing. Thank you for letting me know about this book! I love slow, creeping horror, so I'll try to pick it up this weekend.

[kita0610]

It was iconic to my childhood. I actually put the book in the garage because it scared me to even LOOK AT IT after I was finished reading it. CLOWNS ARE EVIL OKAY.

Phantasm scared the crap out of me too. Actually so did Pet Semetary. Dead things pretty much creep me out on an epic level.

Here, have a cheer up pic. The one on top is so adorable I made a little noise.

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[robanybody]

CLOWNS WANT TO EAT YOU. THIS IS A TRUE FACT.

Stephen King traumatized me all throughout my teen years with his novels and short stories. And I love Phantasm, although I wasn't really scared as much as grossed out and somewhat unsettled by it. Those goddamn leisure suits threw off my fear groove because I ended up giggling at them every time I saw them.

AIGH, SCOTTY CAAN. I saw them this morning and my ovaries exploded. He and Teilor are SO ADORABLE together. And then there is all that gray in his beard and UNF.

[wrenlet]

AIGH PHANTASM FLYING KNIFE BALL OF DOOM!!

*cough* My dad maybe called me into the living room to get a good look at the "special effects." I was maybe nine at the time. He maybe did something similar with Alien.

Your family shares pop songs, mine shares traumatic horror scenes. Thanks, Dad!

He also took me to see Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind in theaters. So I won some, I lost some.

[robanybody]

Ahahaha! My parents let me watch The Exorcist when I was nine. TRAUMA FOREVER ZOMG. I seriously did not sleep in my own room for a month because every time I closed my eyes, I saw Regan's demon-possessed face. ARGH.

My parents compressed all my traumatic horror scenes into one movie for maximum pants-shitting efficiency. >.>

[charliehey]

Okay, now for a non-grumpyass comment, sorry. :x I love finding things that genuinely scare or creep me out, because so much just doesn't seem to do the job. It's exhilarating.

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[robanybody]

It's true. I'm stopped paying attention to horror as a genre in my mid-20s because everything just seemed overwrought and clichéd, and nothing really scared me anymore. So to find a book or a movie that actually fills me with dread in a slow, building layers is a fantastic thing. :D

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