What scares your socks off?

[Guts]

What's your favorite type of Horror fiction?

 

[Spider2099]

Anything with ghosts/demons I suppose.

 

[Kane52630]

☑ All the above


But mostly it's the psychological ones that are my favorites. The Mist being one of my prime examples.

 

[KillerWolf]

Cosmic Horror is the one I enjoy the most, perhaps it's not the most scary, per se, as in making you jump and hide under the sheets, but is definitely the most unsettling and stays with a person for a long time after reading/watching something like that.

Lovecraftian approach never fails to deliver.

Psychological horror would be the next in line, though I'd say that cosmic horror contains psychological horror as part of it.

☑ All the above


But mostly it's the psychological ones that are my favorites. The Mist being one of my prime examples.

I think that "Mist" should fall into the category of cosmic horror. Though, as I said, it would also be a psychological horror.

 

[Enriquespy]

I enjoy Slasher, but fear? Nahh... not in a long time (which is a bad sign for the genre) ditto with cosmic horror.

Paranormal only works if they build the ambiance right.

Psichological is my vote.

The others nah, not scary at all.

 

[Piper Maru]

Cosmic Horror....

Spoiler

Except it's not fiction. Trust me, of all people here I would be the one to know.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Socks scare my socks off.

 

[KevanG]

I'm partial to all sorts of horror. Depends what I'm in the mood for. Sometimes I feel like needing some stupid fun like Freddy, others I want some cosmic reality ****ery like In the Mouth of Madness and sometimes just some subtle mind screwy stuff.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

all the above. eff horror movies

 

[KevanG]

What?

 

[Thundercrack85]

Aliens.

And possibly ghosts – if done right.

Everything else I know to not be real.

 

[KillerWolf]

I'm partial to all sorts of horror. Depends what I'm in the mood for. Sometimes I feel like needing some stupid fun like Freddy, others I want some cosmic reality ****ery like In the Mouth of Madness and sometimes just some subtle mind screwy stuff.

Probably my favorite Carpenter's film.

 

[Victarion]

Whatever you call The Mist and Silent Hill (the movie)...casual cruelty I find very horrifying. There's a foreign movie that I saw about a Christian missionary in either China or Japan. I think she was taken captive by a shogun or samurai...the torture did it for me.

There's two instances in fiction where I've been really scared, though.

One, in The Dark Defiles: The hero comes home, frees a bunch of hardened criminals and gives a speech that whips them into a frenzy of firing, massacring and rape...it is basically him releasing years upon years of pent up anger and abuse. Abuse and anger rooted in him having been raped as a child by fellow knights-in-training despite the cultural norm of violently executing homosexuals, and in seeing his old lovers experience public execution in the form of being impaled and left hanging in a cage for all to see, watching as children threw rocks and mud at the impaled victims...it all came bubbling up when he returned home.

Another, in The Cold Commands: The hero, angry that slavery still exists after the war where all of mankind joined against the dragons and reptiles, engages in a war against slavery. The masters are given especially violent executions...and one of the masters, an old underworld thug the hero was acquainted with, is beaten and given to her former slave-charges. The description of the rape is very brief, but very disturbing.

 

[KevanG]

If they make a horror video game adaption and they do it well then it's always a treat. The first Silent Hill movie, while not being the best done horror movie, it was a great adaptation and had tons of shout outs to the games. The first Resident Evil was different but still well done. The sequels (barring Nemmy) were bad.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

What?

you talkin to me?

 

[KevanG]

Was that a good eff horror movies or a bad eff horror movies? It seems conflicting.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

My socks suddenly falling off.

 

[W/ Great Power]

I still remember when I walked in on my parents watching the original Exorcist when I was nine. I had nightmares for several days

Demons, exorcisms, paranormal occurrences probably creep me out the most.

 

[PacificBoy]

I tend to find surreal and psychological horror, usually paired with a cosmic 'there's no god or there's one but he's effed up' sensibility, the scariest. Jacob's Ladder, Martyrs come to mind, along with quite a few J-horror ones. Slasher movies scare me the least... unless it's the French doing 'em, like Inside and High Tension. While The Blair Witch Project is still the standard bearer of paranormal horror for me.

 

[Isildur´s Heir]

Cosmic Horror....

Spoiler

Except it's not fiction. Trust me, of all people here I would be the one to know.

Please, enlighten us, what is not fiction?

Personally, i can't recall nothing that i can point my finger to, it all depends on the mood at the time.
But it needs to be something believable (i watch The Walking Dead and The Strain at 4am with no problem whatstever).

 

[WolfCypher]

Eh. None of the above. But I must ask what is Cosmic Horror? My mind went to a terrible place (Jason X), then I figured Alien(s)?

 

[Guts]

Please, enlighten us, what is not fiction?

Personally, i can't recall nothing that i can point my finger to, it all depends on the mood at the time.
But it needs to be something believable (i watch The Walking Dead and The Strain at 4am with no problem whatstever).

You've never tried to summon Cthulhu?

 

[Isildur´s Heir]

You've never tried to summon Cthulhu?

Cthullu is my drinking buddy

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

Was that a good eff horror movies or a bad eff horror movies? It seems conflicting.

I said eff horror movies because they scare me really really badly. So I hate them. But that also means they do their job pretty well, when it comes to me. I guess it's up to your interpretation.

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

Sock stealing vampires...