What Scares You?

[Brendan M.]

What are the type of fears that bother you in real life that also appeal to you in movies? Home invasions? Possession? Creepy looking children? The dark? Wild animals? Just to name a few examples.

I would have to say the thing that bothers me the most is heights. Only thing is its a fear that when you watch it on screen, I feel it doesn't bother you as much as it does in real life.

[g1ng3rsnap9ed]

Snakes,sharks,barbed wire,and occular (eye) torture,along with maybe insanity.If you can fit all of these things into one film you will have my by the eyes.

[LordSimen]

What are the type of fears that bother you in real life that also appeal to you in movies? Home invasions? Possession? Creepy looking children? The dark? Wild animals? Just to name a few examples.

I would have to say the thing that bothers me the most is heights. Only thing is its a fear that when you watch it on screen, I feel it doesn't bother you as much as it does in real life.

Spiders, The Ocean and Large bodies of Water, Space and anything relating to the cosmos. Oh, body horror gets me too.

[mattmanw54301]

It's not general things, but specific scares in movies carry over into real life. Like, you know when someone is in the bathroom in a horror film and they open the mirrored cabinet, and then when they shut it again you see something scary behind them in the mirror? Yah, I'm paranoid about that in real life. Also, there was this one scene in The Abandoned, where this woman is being stalked by a ghost of her self (watch the movie), and she hides by locking herself in a closet. The ghost comes into the bedroom, looks around, and leaves. Then, as the woman is breathing a sigh of relief, she turns around and the ghost is RIGHT THERE!!! OMG, that movie was intense.

[yorrick brown]

walking alone at night,been in a house alone at night(thank you them ils:mad:.)

[doaflip]

Octopuses.

[Needaname]

Clowns, and the Burger King guy..man, i hate that guy.

[JJFlamingo]

Waking up next to a prostitute who has AIDS...

Oh yeah, and castration...:D

[slumber party69]

Clowns.

Me too.They`re just No no no NOOOOO!!.They freak me the fuck out!.

[Antonio141]

In real life, I'm claustrophobic and I hate needles!

In reel life, definitely ghosts!

[ERIN_LoJ]

Yeck...Snakes, mean dogs, convincing looking werewolves, and creepy demon stuff.

[Kikabi]

Someone breaking into my house, being humiliated, and strangers knocking at my door. The idea of ghosts scares me, too.

[snoopmish]

Sharks...but I got bit by something while I was innertubbing in the Gulf..FREAKED ME OUT! Even had teeth marks. Haven't been in the ocean since.

Spiders freak me out too.

[Freddy Krueger]

Bodies of water and sharks.

[hasselbrad]

Paying too much for car insurance.

Seriously though, the only thing that really freaks me out is eyes. "Ocular torture" would be the main thing that truly freaks me out in films. I'm not a big horror fan when it comes to the monsters and such... but films with a sinister character, who for all the world, appears to be normal creeps me out.

[SplatterMaster5]

Sharks are scary as fuck but I dont live near the ocean, but bears freak me out thanks to some cheesy movie titled Prophecy about a mutant killer grizzly. That movie must have traumatized me.

Dutch business man from Hostel is creepy, doesn't scare me though, he's just fucked up.

[Lost in Space]

The human race, and its inability to act in a humane way 90% of the time. taking that into movies, scenes like the rape scene from clockwork bother me, just seeing people who are devoid of morality.

[killuminati003]

It's not general things, but specific scares in movies carry over into real life. Like, you know when someone is in the bathroom in a horror film and they open the mirrored cabinet, and then when they shut it again you see something scary behind them in the mirror? Yah, I'm paranoid about that in real life.

Oh yeah me too! My bathroom door has a huge mirror on it, so every time I close that bitch I think someone thing is gonna be there.



As for more practical things- needles, elevators (not close spaces...just elevators) bees or wasps, and tornadoes.

I also have this weird fear of losing my intelligence...or my imagination...or of my personality changing in any negative way.




And some weird, specific fears I've had- I'm scared of my old bedroom in my parents house sometimes, for no apparent reason- and sometimes I was fine. So, the reason I came up with when I was a little kid was that there was a battle going on in my room between evil demons and good spirits, and whenever the evil demons were winning, thats when I was scared. I was also convinced that the concrete used to poor the foundation of my room had a dead kids bones mixed up in it. Also, once a rat crawled under my floor and died, and the smell seemed like it was coming from under out kitchen sink, so I had myself convinced that I had murdered my parents and stuffed them under the sink, and that I was imagining they were still alive. I was maybe 14 at the time...


And some fears that are only in my dreams- I have one dream all the time that I'm being chased by something or someone, and I am just in the next room from someone who can help, but I can't scream for help...every time I try, only a whisper comes out, or I'm being chased and for some reason I can only run in a sluggish, slow motion type way. I also dream a lot that I'm thrown really high in the air by something... and then I have to fall back down and I know I'm going to die.

[Lindsey]

lol, I posted the same thread idea years ago:

http://joblo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25637

Great idea none the less. :cool:

[yorrick brown]

Bodies of water and sharks.


well don`t come here,we jsut had 2 in 2 weeks.

[hrdude]

What is it with sharks and WA? I've surfed for years in Vic and Qld and the worst scare I had was a fin cutting through the water about 20 metres away which turned out to be a dolphin. Mind you I almost needed to buy a new wetsuit after that experience :D

[artguylarry]

I am not really afraid of THAT many things, although this post might indicate otherwise. I am most creeped out by things that convey a dark side of something normally happy and playful. It can be anything from something horrifically blatant, like evil clowns or puppets (that little Magic bugger can go straight into the wood chipper if I have anything to say about it) to simple elements in a shot like a really eerie grin or laugh. Anyone who has seen Burnt Offerings knows about the grin factor.

The same elements can even be found in the movies' film scores. The children singing in Poltergeist, children's laughter in Amityville, the music box in Burnt Offerings, or the "festive" carousel type music found in The Exorcist and Candyman.

[Zeeboe]

Aliens, the dark, the woods at night, and barely hearing the killer(s) but not seeing them.

[Brendan M.]

lol, I posted the same thread idea years ago:

http://joblo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25637

Great idea none the less. :cool:

heh heh, sorry. :o

I was watching the DVD extras for Them and the directors were talking about how they came up with their movie by asking people what scared them the most and came up with a movie about home invasions.

I wanted to see if one thing came up a multiple times if I made a thread on it.

[nayland]

I agree with Needaname the Burger King guy is totally creepy!!!! Chicks with v.d. is also a bummer. The thought of either burning alive or drowningwould really suck for me.

[Dr_Loomis]

The thought of either burning alive or drowningwould really suck for me.


Same here !!

Ummmmmm Aliens, the thought of being taken away and being anal probed :(!!

Ummmmmmmm one more, the thought of Paul Anderson making another movie scares the shit outta me !!!!! :D

[snoopmish]

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Add Uwe Boll to that too.

[~*Miss Murder*~]

Needles

[zzz179]

Clowns ,Heights,creepy crawling things.,

I hate getting up in front of the class for a presentation, which I have sometimes been forced to do because it's part of my grade. In these situations, I feel like a complete retard. What makes it worth the effort?

[WhatsInaName]

Being a father and a husband, I find movies where the man has to protect his family from a realistic danger to be really disturbing. Thus, movies like Vacancy, The Hills Have Eyes (remake), and some others, really do affect me because the thought of me and my family getting stuck in real life in a similar situation, and me not being able to protect them scares the @#$% out of me. For some reason though, I wasn't impressed with "Them".

I am also scared of the thought of getting lost. Hence, "Dead End" touched a nerve.

[Batgirl1979]

I hate getting up in front of the class for a presentation, which I have sometimes been forced to do because it's part of my grade. In these situations, I feel like a complete retard. What makes it worth the effort?

What's scary is that Cyclonus said the exact same thing word for word in the old thread....

In real life; I'm afraid of Sharks, elevators and mirrors in the dark.
I am also afraid of something happening to my mother or son.
In film; Torture scenes and ghosts get to me.

[Needaname]

Mimes.....and being stuck in a very small space.

Being buried alive is one of my all time fears, but my children being abducted trumps even that.

[Gordon]

A few people mentioned aliens. I think if someone did a good Alien Abduction movie it'd quite possibly be the freakiest of all time.

[optimus]

being buried alive, spiders, flying and all of the stupid horror remakes.