Spin Off of the Scared Thread

[Lunadiana75]

Lunadiana75, I love "The Handmaid's Tale." I agree that it's very frightening.

Oh I love the book, one of my favorites.  I love Margaret Atwood.

[Cyndi]

I won't watch anything with gore in it. House and ER I tolerated because well in those shows it happened and I'd just avert my eyes if I saw that it was coming(going into surgery, etc).

But I hate scary movies with gore in them. Blood rules, blood is great, but I don't want to see some guy's brain or intestines.

Funnily enough I can read gore(and write some of the goriest scenes ever in fanfiction), but I can't stand to see it. In school when they would show those nasty films about the inside of the body, I had to get a note to excuse me because I couldn't eat after watching those(every time I had a class with those it was RIGHT BEFORE LUNCH PERIOD! TORTURE! ) and I actually lost weight. The vision of nastiness would stick in my head and I had a stupid fear that it would appear in my food while I was eating it, especially if the food looked like or had the same texture as guts. I still have that fear, so I always eat all my snacks BEFORE sitting down to watch House.

[IndianInlaw]

I won't watch horror movies at all.

[Cyndi]

The only horror movie I can stand is Carrie and I rooted for her through the entire thing. I guess it's because in school I *was* just like her(except my parents were just very strict, not abusive religious fanatics.).

Once, I read a chapter of "Hannibal" right before I went to bed and had a dream that Hannibal was chasing me through his "mansion of memories". The weird part is he looked like Anthony Hopkins, but he had the red eyes like in the book, and he was smaller than me! (Harris did describe him as a small man). The dream wasn't really scary, more like "ew, STOP following me!"

[Rei-chan]

I also won't watch any movies with torture in them....it squicks me out.

Books don't really scare me all that much, BTW I loved The Handmaid's Tale....

I can't watch true crime at all anymore.  Living through an armed mugging a few years back (in fact, 3 years ago today), it gets a little close to home for me.

Going back to the mugging incident, the scariest thing I have seen on TV in the past few years was an ep of "Six Feet Under"...the one where David gets carjacked and robbed by the crazy crackhead.  It was too realistic and I had to leave the room for the duration of the ep.

We can't watch CSI in this house because DH works for the medical examiner here and he gives a running commentary every time it is on about how unrealistic it is.   

[StaciNadia]

I watched Carrie and was freaked out when she used her powers.  I can't watch any horror movie.  I don't want to try anymore!

I also have a fear of boxing movies.  All that punching in the head!  I don't want to see people lose their teeth!

[willow08]

Now that I know how to make you all quake in your boots (mmmwwwaahhahhahahaha) I wanna know what books you will not read or movies you will not watch alone in the dark...
I can't read any true crime, especially my beloved serial killers, I can't watch Justice Files or anything of the like and I can't watch A Haunting. I do okay with the movies, though I won't watch the Exorcist (a favorite of mine)
Okay, now I'm hearing Stephen King noises in the house...I'm going on the porch to smoke and I gotta hit the hay....

I too can't watch The Exorcist or A Haunting. I can watch A Haunting during the day with Dh husband in the house, but that's it.

I have a fear of zombies, so when DH and I do our annual Zombie Movie Night in October, I have to make sure the house is on complete lockdown and my zombie arsenal is close at hand. (Yeah, a little paranoid and ridiculous, I know, lol.)

What exactly is in a zombie arsenal?

(I also have a huge fear of zombies. I watched Shaun of the Dead, which is SUPPOSED to be funny. and I was more weirded out by that than of the of "scary" zombie movies I've seen.)

[DaeOne]

I can read/watch true/fictional crime. Not a problem. (I can also handle the gory medical shows, and the live surgeries on the web.)

I cannot, and will not, watch a horror flick. No way, no how. I don't even allow them to be brought into my house on DVD.

I always felt as though my heart was skipping a beat whenever I got scared.

Recently, I found out I do have a skippy heart. Now, I know why I don't like scary movies!

[jibby]

My imagination is crazy enough on its own, so I will not read anything scary before bed. 

I watched an episode of A Haunting (the one with the little boy whose room was in the basement) several months ago and it *still* gives me the creeps.  I can handle most of the "ooh, scary, true ghost stories" shows that are on, but A Haunting just really gets to me.   

I will not watch any of the movies with fast-moving zombies...seriously...they weren't scary enough before??  I'm trying to think of the one that freaked me out the most.  Maybe it was 28 Days Later.

[Musicwoman]

I read the REVIEWS of the movie Wolf Creek and they kept me awake.  It's a movie about kidnap and murder (with assorted nasty stuff in between the two) set in the Australian outback.  Many of the events were inspired by real-life killers in Australia; mainly the Peter Falconio murder and Ivan Milat (the Backpacker killer). 

I can handle "fantasy" horror, it's the stuff that could really happen that freaks me out.  Needless to say, I haven't watched Wolf Creek.

[hobish]

Any of the non-supernatural type horror movies scare the lights out of me, as do war movies. They both give me horrible nightmares, so i just don't watch them.

The only horror i have really read is Stephen King. They usually don't bother me. I did finish Gerald's Game when both of my room mates at the time were away for 2 weeks. I spent every night with all the lights on & closet doors wide open.

Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted didn't scare me, but i did learn not to make myself a sammich & then settle in to read it after the first few times i gagged reading it. Great book! Chuck is really something.

[IndianInlaw]

40   years ago, my sister was reading The Boston Strangler and I snuck up and put my hands around her neck.

[HogwartsAlum]

The episode of ER where Carter and Lucy were stabbed and the subsequent episode where the docs were working on them scared me green. My husband works in a psych hospital and I was begging him to stay home the next day. I kid you not, I was near tears...

I never did get to see that...I saw the second one but I missed the stabbing, and they never showed it again!

[HogwartsAlum]

Once, I read a chapter of "Hannibal" right before I went to bed and had a dream that Hannibal was chasing me through his "mansion of memories". The weird part is he looked like Anthony Hopkins, but he had the red eyes like in the book, and he was smaller than me! (Harris did describe him as a small man). The dream wasn't really scary, more like "ew, STOP following me!"

Weird...I had a dream just like that only he was chasing me out of Norman Bate's basement!  I got out the cellar door just in time!

I love horror movies, but most of them I can watch alone because they SUCK.  The only movies that freak me out are
1. Exorcist III (head scissors - brrr!)
2. John Carpenter's The Thing (I think it's Morricone's music mostly, but it's one of the very few remakes that is actually good)
3. Psycho - can't take a shower after watching.  Keep thinking someone's approaching the curtain.

[hobish]

Lunadiana75, I love "The Handmaid's Tale." I agree that it's very frightening.

Oh I love the book, one of my favorites.  I love Margaret Atwood.

Ooooooh! thanks for posting that! I saw the movie a long time ago & would love to read the book. I have $25 worth of bookstore gift cards to spend, too. yay!