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

Comments

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this. I agree with you about details. Little things scare me more than big things, and yes, torture. I can watch horror films and be completely nonplussed, but documentaries about atrocity ruin me.

But then I guess this is the thing about horror in media; it's a specific form of escapism, the gribbly is extra special nasty for one of many reasons, but mainly for entertainment; sometimes it's tailored to stimuate minds who need an alternative world, a big enemy to destroy; other times it entertains the same mob who would once upon a time have come to Tyburn to watch a hanging, or a crowd cheering at a badger baiting. There is no horror like the cruelty of human beings. Depict that truly in a film, and one may create a work of art that no-one can bear to watch.

I still have not seen Hotel Rwanda, but I will. Stupidly, I feel I owe it to a whole bunch of living and dead human beings to understand what they went through.