Horror

[smokingboot]

You bored?

I'm doing research on horror stories. If anyone wants to help me by answering the questions below (no need to email me privately, just bung them in the comments section) that would be fantastic, bearing in mind that if you give me great ideas, don't be mortified if I use them! If your list includes trigger events, can you add a warning to the title of your comment, so that people know to scroll past if necessary?

1)What personally frightens you?
2)The most frightening thing you can imagine happening to you in real life?
3)The most frightening nightmare/unreal scenario you can imagine?
4)What feels as though it should frighten you but just doesn't?
5)What is the most frightening book/story you ever read or were told and why?
6)What's the most frightening film you ever saw and why
7)What's the least frightening thriller/horror movie you ever saw and why?
8)What is the physical environment most likely to scare you and why?
9)Creepiest city/town and why?

Thanks for any input you can give xxx

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[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

1)What personally frightens you? Heights - I want to jump off and that's terrifying. Loud noises. Old age and loss of ability, my parents getting old. Death.
2)The most frightening thing you can imagine happening to you in real life? There is no room in my head for losing Bry or family especially suddenly. Other than that I think being buried alive, or having something attack my eyes and ears.
3)The most frightening nightmare/unreal scenario you can imagine? Those horrible stories where people's mouths or faces vanish. It's just so...hideous.
4)What feels as though it should frighten you but just doesn't? Blood and guts. People who try to intimidate me, especially physically. It's just so sad....
5)What is the most frightening book/story you ever read or were told and why? I can't actually remember a good one. Although I did find those campfire stories about the serial killer banging on the roof of the car and it's her friend's head really scary.
6)What's the most frightening film you ever saw and why - i had to turn off children of the corn because I found evil, blank horror-children really scary
7)What's the least frightening thriller/horror movie you ever saw and why? Blair witch. It's dull. And a bunch of crappy B movie things that are just blood and guts.
8)What is the physical environment most likely to scare you and why? I think a wood at night.
9)Creepiest city/town and why? Naples was really creepy at Easter - big city, totally empty. Just weirdos and thieves.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the input, you know I can actually imagine Naples being really creepy...

Blair Witch is interesting cos as marketing goes, it is just plain masterly. Then for so many it doesn't deliver, and I wonder why? I know it's a shaggy dog story, but so was Hitchcock's The Birds, and I seem to be the only person who objected to that film's non-ending...