Any other things that scare you? Or maybe you could tell us a scary or creepy story that happened to you or someone you know. Or maybe something you heard in the news like a weird murder ...
H o s p i t a l s. Just, like...I've had scoliosis since birth and I've been in hospitals my whole life. And it's just...terrifying. Especially anesthetic. The mere thought of just being put to sleep with gas is just awful. And I've hated it every time it's been done to me.
Not knowing what is real and what is an hallucination can be scary. Not being able to trust your own senses.
For feather's sake! I'm reading this thread, and suddenly the wind slams the door of our storage room. I need a pill... As for the other scary things - I'm a total Chihuahua when it comes to mystic. Global crisis scenarios, especially the anthropogenic ones, are terrifying, but, I guess, not in a horror story kind of way. I have to agree with OurJud on that one, it's more repulsive than frightening. 'The platform' (2019) scared me much more. To my taste Pasolini is barely pulling it to the 'art' side; and the original book shows more value to the characters' experience.
You are right, hospitals can be very creepy. I was lucky to not have to spend lot of time in hospitals. Oh, I like that. It reminds me a dream I had a couple of times in which I had kill someone. It seems so real and when I woke up, I was just thinking; Have I killed someone for real? Global crisis like the covid-19 pandemic? What is "The Platform" synopsis? Thanks for your comment
The idea of accidentally taking or being tricked into taking a hallucinogens or dissociative drugs terrifies me. I think I would have a VERY BAD TIME and would likely would need to strapped down for my own protection. I don't have much drug experience but even just that little experience has made me well aware that there are a lot of recreational drug types I should never ever touch.
I was thinking of the consequences of overpopulation, radioactive contamination and chemical pollution (not the romanticized rubbish, but real results of those) or loss of natural species due to anthropization of the environment... or, say, a vast increase in the number of psychopaths (in clinical terms). The story is about a guy who voluntarily went to lockup in hope to quit smoking. That place he's sent to is a tall multi-storey building, where each level forms a square cell with a rectangular hole in the middle, set for two roommates. Once a day a large platform with food descends from the top floor to the bottom, the rules of feeding are: the platform stays no longer than 2 minutes per level, captives can't save any food in the cell. Once a month the prisoners change their location up or down the building, what influences their access to meal. What I like about it is the great character development: no cliche 'goods' and 'bads', but the struggle between morals, instincts and logical decisions in all of them. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8228288/
For someone like me who has ne er done any drugs, yes I would be afraid too. Thanks. Thanks for the story and the link. I will check that. And yes, overpopulation, destruction of habitats and wildlife really freak me out. I am a nature maniac. I love to spend time outdoors but I am becoming more anxious because what our species is doing to the planet. Thanks!
Anticipation. For me I think the anticipation of something bad happening creates the most fear in horror films, and in life. The fear of the plane crashing, the fear of the spider biting or crawling on you, the fear of getting murdered by a monster in the dark, the fear of the bomb exploding, the fear of the ghost doing.... something. Even the fear of the dark: is the anticipation of something suddenly touching you or hurting you. A BANG is a jump scare. A natural reaction to potential danger. But waiting for the bang, that could or could not come at any moment, is drawn out terror that can last and last and last.... I've always had a fare amount of anxiety, that I control reasonably well now, but caused a great deal of problems in the past. And for me it's all about anticipation. I think through what might happen. Will I fuck up in front of all those people watching, will I say the wrong thing, even the anticipation of a cold water hit stopping me from jumping in the pool. I've found I get bad anxiety worrying about a problem that might not even occur.
Deep water, like an ocean. The thought of not knowing what could be directly under me scares me to bits!
Fear. The desire to simultaneously wish to know, and the fear of what you'll find. There's the fear of the thing in the dark. Footsteps in the night, that pause in front of your door. You hide under the covers. You hear heavy breathing, most definitely not one of your family. It walks in. It pauses right in front of you. Your phone has a battery, and a powerful light. You can, with a single motion, figure out who that is. But you also don't want to, because you're terrified. What is it? Slender man? A werewolf? Some hunched, long limbed, emaciated figure with no hair and wide bulging eyes? A shadowy figure looming over you? There juxtaposition of both desperately wishing to figure out what's out there in the darkness and also the very firm desire to ignore it and just hope it goes away can be one of the greatest sources of terror.
I tend to be most scared by psychological horror where the danger wells up inside of the main character and he can no longer trust himself. The movies that get to me the most are The Shining and Mulholland Drive.
I cant remember the last movie monster to scare me.... Freddie Kruger and Jeepers Creepers scared me as a kid, but recently? Nothing comes to mind. But what scares me thats not movie related (sort of), and that isnt one of the typical fears (i.e. spiders) is deep water where i cant see the bottom, and being trapped under the ocean. Im a pretty good swimmer, but something about not seeing the bottom terrifies me. On my honeymoon last summer, we rented snorkling gear, but the water was murky. Water kept getting into my goggles and i couldnt see and panicked. I ended up sitting in the shallows while my husband followed around a marine iguana that was swimming near the rocks. As to being trapped underwater, i have recurring nightmares where i am in a glass bubbled at the bottom of the ocean. Its dark and cold and the glass is cracking and water is seeping in. My nose starts to bleed, my eyes bulge, and i cant breathe, and before i can suffocate, the bubble shatters with the pressure and i wake up. @Xoic is a pretty good dream interpreter. What do you think about this one? There is a movie called Sanctum that isnt a "horror" movie, but a suspense movie as a team of spelunkers are trapped in a flooding cave and have to get out. There is a really graphic scene where one of them drowns. Thats a hard movie for me to watch again. Once was enough
My father is like this. Terrified of the ocean and won't ever step foot in it. I'm terrified of being a disappointment. I think a lot of my characters I write struggle with various versions of self-worth because of this fear. You write what you know, at least to start. I'm rather proud of what I've done the last seven years, but still always care the lingering of fear of who I disappointed along the way. Generally it is always myself.
Sleep apnea? Is it possible you actually stop breathing until it wakes you up with a start? The only other thing that comes to mind is, maybe you saw The Abyss, the part where Coffee goes down in a submersible off the edge of the abyss until all the glass around him suddenly implodes...
I'm scared of being tortured. I recently watched the 44 days of hell, and every time I go outside, I am too paranoid if someone will kidnap me and torture me.
Sinking in boggy ground. I work outdoors, often in very remote areas - it doesn't worry me at all when I'm out there, it's when I'm trying to get to sleep that I start thinking about it. That, and insanity.
Failure. And the idea that when I reach into the hot oven, the door will randomly slam shut on my arms
Hamsters. I didn't realize how murderous they can be to their own kind until I saw the mother eat her own babies. It was too late to rescue them. I think she got used to my presence because she didn't eat her next babies. But still, she killed her babies one by one when they got older. I rescued some of the babies many times whenever I heard the screams. I bought a separate home for the babies, but the same situation repeated with the next generation. (Apparently, inbreeding works with hamsters). It got to the point that I started to fear what murder scene (with blood splattered around) I'd encounter whenever I went to feed the hamsters or wash their homes. Those mothers are cute looking efficient serial killers. Well actually, the current mother is starting to look more and more deranged if I look closely.
