What Scares You?

joemaconmovies - 9-23-2007 at 04:13 PM

This is a very serious question as I am doing research for my movie. I want to make it generally scary. So...for all you horror film fans, what scares you? Please be serious and keep any jokes to a minimum. Thanks guys.

-Joe

upyerbum - 9-23-2007 at 05:29 PM

Deep water.

Discipline - 9-23-2007 at 05:54 PM

Dead silence in the woods in the pitch black.

Dave - 9-23-2007 at 06:56 PM

spiders & snakes, deep water, and heights.

DAK - 9-23-2007 at 08:15 PM

Heights.

DaveMoral - 9-23-2007 at 09:30 PM

Zombies. Seriously, the idea of dead people rising from the grave and trying to eat me is disturbing.

clevohardcore - 9-23-2007 at 09:49 PM

spiders, snakes, sharks, open windows while sleeping, heights,

Murk - 9-23-2007 at 09:59 PM

heights and pitch black surroundings.

JawnDiablo - 9-23-2007 at 10:03 PM

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Originally posted by DaveMoral
Zombies. Seriously, the idea of dead people rising from the grave and trying to eat me is disturbing.

I have zombie dreams all the time....seen too many movies I guess

Murk - 9-23-2007 at 10:10 PM

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Zombies. Seriously, the idea of dead people rising from the grave and trying to eat me is disturbing.

I have zombie dreams all the time....seen too many movies I guess

glad i'm not the only one.

joemaconmovies - 9-23-2007 at 11:32 PM

maybe i wasn't totally clear or i'm just confused. if i'm confused then ignore me. i didn't mean what scared you in real life (you don't often see heights as part of a horror movie). i meant what scares you in horror movies, if you've been scared by a horror movie. i appreciate everyone's answers so far. you guys fucking rock.

upyerbum - 9-24-2007 at 07:55 AM

That disembodied eye looking through a hole or something has always freaked me out. You know, something on the other side of something, but you don't know what it is. They did a good job of it in "Signs" (i think thats what it was, the Mel Gibson crop circle movie.)

Dave - 9-24-2007 at 09:32 AM

anything to do with eye, damage.

i can even watch those medical shows if its on eyes, freaks me out

clevohardcore - 9-24-2007 at 11:49 AM

eyes. Your insides falling out your ass. The throat.

CR83 - 9-24-2007 at 02:47 PM

Uncertanty. Creating a sense of something very powerful grabbing and ripping you up while you are defenseless.

moforn - 9-24-2007 at 05:45 PM

pregnancy tests

Dave - 9-24-2007 at 07:17 PM

Lionel as my health care worker.

joemaconmovies - 9-24-2007 at 07:27 PM

second part of the question: can you guys when something is gonna happen in a horror movie? also, does that make it less scary, more scary, etc? thirdly, what usually gives it away?

JawnDiablo - 9-25-2007 at 06:30 AM

i find alot of movies predictable.
just from seeing so many and reading allot
if the movie is cool overall, it doesnt bother me too much.
i mean halloween type movies are always predictable.
i find it more annoying when reading a book and predicting the outcome because it is more time spent on it

upyerbum - 9-25-2007 at 11:36 AM

I think its the anticipation that freaks you out, the build-up so to speak. You know something is about to happen, but not what. Its the uncertainty that is unnerving.
And sometimes nothing happens and you kind of go WTF, and then 10 seconds later all hell breaks loose and you crap yourself. The music can sometimes be a giveaway.

Hey, Joe is this for a horror film or psychology course, oh wait, they're the same thing.

newbreedbrian - 9-25-2007 at 03:23 PM

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I think its the anticipation that freaks you out, the build-up so to speak. You know something is about to happen, but not what. Its the uncertainty that is unnerving.
And sometimes nothing happens and you kind of go WTF, and then 10 seconds later all hell breaks loose and you crap yourself. The music can sometimes be a giveaway.

Hey, Joe is this for a horror film or psychology course, oh wait, they're the same thing.

definitely. one of my favorite scenes ever is the one in silence of the lambs where clarice is groping blindly in the dark and buffalo bill is watching her. the buildup on that one is flat out fucking intense.

joemaconmovies - 9-25-2007 at 03:23 PM

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i'm actually trying to write a zombie horror film and want to genuinely scare the shit out of people, not just have mindless gore for 2 hours.

JawnDiablo - 9-25-2007 at 03:38 PM

it freaked me out the first time i saw zombies running madly as opposed to staggering and drooling....

joemaconmovies - 9-25-2007 at 03:51 PM

i'm more of an old school zombie fan. i didn't like them quick. didn't make sense. it made sense in the 28 Days/Weeks Later area because they weren't zombies.

morgan - 9-25-2007 at 04:58 PM

28 Weeks Later. The whole subway scene. Trying to get diwn those stairs and then find eachother in complete darkness. That was tense as hell. Anything that makes for an extremely tense scenario, silence, extreme darkness, etc. Also 1 or 2 extremely violent makes for a far more shocking movie than 2 hours of nothing but gore.

DaveMoral - 9-25-2007 at 06:21 PM

For real scares it's gotta be stuff like Ringu and Ju-on. Especially Ringu. Here I am expecting this corpse to come flying outta that well there at the end and choke out that chick, but nothign happened. The anticipation was freaking me out. I was ready to jump outta my seat.

I watched Dawn of the Dead(new one) one morning at about 1 or 2, tried to go to bed but all I could do was watch the crack of my door for staggering shadows of zombies. Seriously... that's how freaked out that stuff gets me.

joemaconmovies - 9-25-2007 at 06:54 PM

this is all great stuff. keep it coming guys. i'm already using bits of this in my ideas. i think one of the heroes or zombies will have to wear a thorp warriors t-shirt in this movie now...if that's ok with andy and who ever made them (sorry, i forgot which person made the shirts).

JawnDiablo - 9-25-2007 at 07:00 PM

or better have thorp zombies starring us

upyerbum - 9-25-2007 at 07:03 PM

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it freaked me out the first time i saw zombies running madly as opposed to staggering and drooling....

Yeah, for sure, a fast vicious enemy is always more terror inducing. If some dumb bitch busts her heel and falls she fucking toast cuz noone's stopping to help her.

joemaconmovies - 9-26-2007 at 10:27 AM

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Originally posted by juandiablo
or better have thorp zombies starring us

i've been offering

MyOwnWay - 9-27-2007 at 08:38 AM

I'd be in the movie. That would rule!!!!!!

Def-Star Steve made the Thorp Warriors shirts.

Shit that scares me is when its random. Walking down a street, middle of the day, and a zombie breaks thru a glass store window with a loud crash and eats your face. That would startle me during a film.

JawnDiablo - 9-27-2007 at 09:14 AM

hells yeah

joemaconmovies - 9-27-2007 at 09:24 AM

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Originally posted by MyOwnWay
I'd be in the movie. That would rule!!!!!!

Def-Star Steve made the Thorp Warriors shirts.

Shit that scares me is when its random. Walking down a street, middle of the day, and a zombie breaks thru a glass store window with a loud crash and eats your face. That would startle me during a film.

i thought steve made the shirts but wanted to make sure.

joemaconmovies - 9-28-2007 at 10:20 PM

anyone else got anything else to add?

upyerbum - 9-28-2007 at 10:31 PM

Moths freak me out. Yes, moths.

DaveMoral - 9-29-2007 at 09:41 AM

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Moths freak me out. Yes, moths.

You must really hate Mothra then...