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Post by guinevere on Dec 10, 2003 13:27:24 GMT -5
when I was a little kiddo, vampires scared the hell out of me (even into my teens and early 20*s)...I have no idea why that particular form of bad dude affected me that way. now, however, I love vamp movies..(John Carpenter*s VAMPIRES is a favourite) and read books about such-- have no idea why what used to cause nightmares no longer does--- as a SKING fan (early stuff mostly), I remember borrowing Salems Lot from the library when it first appeared and sort of freaking when I discovered that the major bad guy was indeed a vampire. I thought about putting the book down, but kept right on reading.. truly my favourite vamp book and my all time favourite SKing book... but the made for tv movie was awful, awful, awful.....
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Post by En on Dec 10, 2003 17:04:12 GMT -5
Really, Natz? Um... is it usually the same guy...?
Yeah, anyway, scary books bug me a lot more than scary films because my imagination does the runaway thing... and also because when you imagine something yourself, that makes it yours, you know? So that's in some ways scarier... because you can't dismiss it as the effect of someone else's sick mind.
Vampires flipped me out for a while too, and I'm not really sure what that was about. Blood is blood is blood. I don't particularly like most of the vampires I've read about, as people (I found Lestat kind of, well, whiny... fans, please don't shoot me). I didn't really feel any particular pathos about their plight, or anything very powerful about the heavy Christian elements to that mythology (them being damned to hell and all that). So... yeah, I dunno why they got me for a while, but they did.
*thinks* Maybe it was the crawling up the side of a building thing. That kind of wigged me out. So does the Dorian Grey aspect -- they can get to be thousands of years old and still look young and beautiful -- that's just creepy.
Werewolves didn't get me much either, nor did creatures from black lagoons, blobs, or most other monster flick creatures. But those little green bugs that got loose in that X-Files episode about the logging camp... *shudder* Now that really bothered me, a lot. I had to sleep with a light on, and my creepy friend decided it would be cute to throw a bit of green cloth over it so when I woke up the room was all pale green... argh.
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Post by KoNeko on Dec 12, 2003 0:36:02 GMT -5
*nods* Yeah, I find that I can scare myself more than what other people write/make films about/etc. can scare me. Like, stuff in some of the X-Files which seemed to me more "real" and plausible than stuff like swamp things and stuff. The little green bugs was one of those, and like, I was more afraid I'd find Eugene Tooms under my bed than like, a traditional monster.
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Post by En on Dec 12, 2003 15:33:31 GMT -5
Ahahaha... ehhh. You know who scared the bejeezus out of me? Luther Boggs. *shudder*
And I'm definitely more scared by things that seem like natural phenomena. Or, more specifically, mad natural phenomena. That guy in that Wizard-of-Ozzish episode who could control the weather and didn't know it? He flipped me out too... what if he'd been a pscyhopath and hated everyone? That would have caused massive disasters....
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Post by Natz on Dec 13, 2003 5:46:52 GMT -5
Yes really and it is usually the same guy no matter where i am Vampires haven't freaked me out yet but i think thats because the ones on buffy the vampire slayer aren't very convincing. That was a scary episode of the x files with eugene tombs he scared me as well koneko.
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Post by KoNeko on Dec 14, 2003 6:57:54 GMT -5
Tooms I think was my childhood monster. Like, you know how kids check under their beds before they went to sleep? I had to check my bed, cupbords, ducts, under my desk, toybox, bookcase etc. because of him...
Oh! En, you mean the D.P.O. epsiode with Giovanni Ribesi (spelling?) and he was that kid who could control electricity and electric signals? Yeah, that was kind of freaky, especially because I didn't like the way he got a kick out of frying those cows in that paddock.
Um, which one was the Luther Boggs episode?
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Post by Natz on Dec 14, 2003 7:56:43 GMT -5
I know i couldn't get to sleep after seeing that episode of the x files and i was in year 10 It creeped me out and so did the book. I think my childhood monster is probably that guy in the chair who is still there I don't remember looking under the bed but i always look in my wardrobe before i go to bed due to the lion the witch and the wardrobe.
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Post by En on Dec 14, 2003 12:40:54 GMT -5
Tooms bugged me, but not as bad as Boggs, because Tooms just slid through small spaces, so he was a physical being that could be controlled -- but Boggs was, like, morally ambiguous. Did he really repent? Was he really channelling? What did he really feel? And then he dies regardless... it just felt so tragic.
(Boggs was the mass murderer who killed his whole family over Thanksgiving dinner, plus like 12 other people; he got pulled into an investigation while on death row, when two kids were kidnapped and he claimed to have information about them. Mulder, for once, got to be the skeptic, while Scully, who had just lost her father, ended up struggling a lot because Boggs seemed to be channelling her father, and Boggs was trying to use that to get her to do what he wanted. Incidentally... the guy who played Boggs? Wormtongue. *shiver*)
Man, I can't imagine what it must have been like to watch X as a kid... I didn't even see an episode until I was a senior in high school (what was that, season 3?), so all my childhood bogeys were from Grimm or other fairy tales. I had major issues with Poltergeist, though, let me tell you.
Oo, the D.P.O. episode was cool too, but I meant the one in rural Kansas or whatever, which had the highest incidence of tornadoes and freak storms in the US... and a guy who claimed to be able to control the weather, a big hokey freak. And at the root of the phenomenon? A real weather-controller, but not who you think
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Post by guinevere on Dec 15, 2003 3:01:01 GMT -5
I remember reading that Stephen King never sleeps with his leg hanging over the side of the bed--for fear of what might be under the bed. I NEVER allow my leg to slide off the side of the bed--for same reasons. Just a phobia, I guess..
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Post by En on Dec 15, 2003 16:18:21 GMT -5
HAHAHA! King is such a weird, weird man... gotta love him. Me, I sleep with my foot sticking out from under the covers. Mum calls it my "thermometer foot" and claims I use it to monitor the temperature in the room.
But I do have problems with getting into things that haven't been touched in a long time. Don't tell anyone, but I have this massive morbid dread of silverfish
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Post by Rubes on Dec 15, 2003 18:55:06 GMT -5
Silverfish? Bleugh. I like leeches so much less though
I've only just started to watch the X-Files, because it is on before the Pretender ((Which I absolutely adore )). Midday and one o'Clock. Now that I have no school, I can watch day time telly on Foxtel
The X-File that spooked me the most were those fellows who adapted to the forest, making themselves sort of invisible. They had red eyes. Red eyes freak me out I was looking up and down, backwards and forwards, left and right for the rest of that day, until someone else came home I also liked the Matrix episode, with that AI that was hiding in a caravan. But the ones I find the spookiest are the ones that might actually have a chance of happening, or a slight variation of what happened.
I've never believed in monsters, so my childhood "monster" was always some maniac with a long, pointy knife, just lying under the bed ready to slice straight up
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Post by KoNeko on Dec 17, 2003 7:07:45 GMT -5
Oh! Oh! I remember that episode! What was it called? The Walk? *frowns* I can't remember, but I do remember the one scene with Wormtongue/Boggs in his orange death row jumpsuit and he's going to get executed and as he walks towards the chair, he sees all the people he killed along the way... and they're like, pleading with him or talking to him or something...
*sly glance* Is your fear of silverfish prompted by the possibility that one will burrow into your ear and lay its eggs in there? I heard a similar story/urban myth about earwigs...
Rubes, I've always also been a bit paranoid of the serial killers who lurk outside one's window, ready to burst in and slice you up with a butcher knife/chainsaw/cleaver/etc. when you're about to go to bed...
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Post by Rubes on Dec 17, 2003 9:01:39 GMT -5
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Post by KoNeko on Dec 17, 2003 9:33:41 GMT -5
Hah, you wish. When I was working at the Legal Service, my friend had a client up for chasing his wife down the street waving a meat cleaver...
Oh, but the earwig/spider/possibly silverfish story... the version I heard had the mother earwig laying the eggs and then dying, and the person had like, serious earaches and went to the doctor who took out the dead body of the mother earwig. Problem solved? Nope. When the babies hatched, they ate through the person's eardrum and into their brain...
Now, if I ever saw THAT in a movie, I'd freak out.
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Post by En on Dec 19, 2003 13:19:32 GMT -5
Ack, no... no ear burrowage... actually, I don't think I'd heard that one before, though of course I've heard about swallowing a seed and getting a watermelon growing in your belly, or a tree; and there's that scene in the second Star Trek movie when Khan has parasites put in Chekhov's and someone else's heads through their ears
Actually, my fear of silverfish has everything to do with my being a bibliophile and identifying heavily with paper and wood. Also they move really fast, which bothers me, same way millipedes do
For some reason I never worried about mass murderers. I was more concerned about getting sucked into alternate dimensions.
Oo oo! I love that episode, the one with the red-eyed forest blokes! Especially that creepy implication that they'd been Columbus' men, or had interacted with them. And I liked that AI episode too, but I also like the one with the AI living in the building and killing people off when it thought they were going to try to shut it down. Very HAL (aside: I had a really hard time keeping a straight face when the Eye of Sauron appeared on screen because I'd had this weird moment the day before when I realised some parallels between Sauron and HAL... so there I am watching the eye and thinking "I'm afraid, Dave.")
Yeah, Koko, that's the one -- also his family watched him eat his last meal, which would really spoil my appetite, you know, ghostly murder victims watching me eat... of course it bugs me when real people watch me eat.
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