Scary films, games, and happenings...
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como":3e1qr523 said:Just don't make the screen dark and play eerie sounds and expect to have made a horror game.
Hehe. what if it is to late? Noo seriously, I made it exciting via dark screen. Then the horrifying is actrually either in a laboratory (grey or red) or in a empty unknown place with lightened screen
haha so, ofc not! Thank YouSgt. Cookie
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Commodore Whynot":16ybdqlr said:
Well what about if that popup appears, because you tried to save it?
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Oh, god, this. This and [rec] are the only movies that have managed to get me with "jump scares", because they balance the boo! moments with atmosphere so thick you could cut it with a knife. I left a permanent imprint in the sofa from clutching it so tightly during most of [rec]. 28 Days Later is pretty good too. 28 Weeks Later is much weaker in terms of plot, but I thought the sequence where the kids were stumbling through the darkness blind, relying on a tiny scope to find their way was really effective.
As far as sheer atmosphere - total isolation, insanity, and horror, you can never go wrong with Jacob's Ladder or the Silent Hill series.
silent hill (the game series) is p much the only thing that's ever actually given me nightmares since i was a kid. but the fact that it gives me nightmares actually makes me want to play them more. idk why, it's kind of thrilling.
though The Ring freaked the piss out of me because after I went to bed that night the television in my room randomly turned on (it was old and would do it occasionally; power button was broken) and it was on static, volume set really loud. and my bed was right next to the fucker. didn't sleep all night after that :P
walking alone at night outdoors, even in a safe neighborhood, freaks me out. but imo it's better to be alert than not.
though The Ring freaked the piss out of me because after I went to bed that night the television in my room randomly turned on (it was old and would do it occasionally; power button was broken) and it was on static, volume set really loud. and my bed was right next to the fucker. didn't sleep all night after that :P
walking alone at night outdoors, even in a safe neighborhood, freaks me out. but imo it's better to be alert than not.
(edit:whoop this was sposed to be a double post, thanks wyatt)
gore/bodily fluids are never that scary for me. i grew up with a lot of sick people and saw enough of it to desensitize me. also i've owned a lot of animals and they're constantly spewing some kind of muck. i've also babysat a lot of kids ... when something or someone hurts themselves around you, it's very useful to be able to stay calm and know how to patch them up. i can watch zombie movies or slasher films without wincing. when i worked for a lawfirm a while back, and there were auto accident injury/death photos that needed duplicating, people would hand them off to me, because I was unfazed by them. i'd see some really horrible ones, too--corpses that were sheared in half, or ground up under tires, or spread out like paste in the gutter. gross but not scary.
the concept the lurking unknown is what gets me, and that's why the SH series always got me, they always did an excellent job of atmosphere and robbing you of your sense of what is supposed to logically come next.
also spongiform material (organic-looking surfaces with large open pores) grosses me out hugely. though irdk why.
gore/bodily fluids are never that scary for me. i grew up with a lot of sick people and saw enough of it to desensitize me. also i've owned a lot of animals and they're constantly spewing some kind of muck. i've also babysat a lot of kids ... when something or someone hurts themselves around you, it's very useful to be able to stay calm and know how to patch them up. i can watch zombie movies or slasher films without wincing. when i worked for a lawfirm a while back, and there were auto accident injury/death photos that needed duplicating, people would hand them off to me, because I was unfazed by them. i'd see some really horrible ones, too--corpses that were sheared in half, or ground up under tires, or spread out like paste in the gutter. gross but not scary.
the concept the lurking unknown is what gets me, and that's why the SH series always got me, they always did an excellent job of atmosphere and robbing you of your sense of what is supposed to logically come next.
also spongiform material (organic-looking surfaces with large open pores) grosses me out hugely. though irdk why.
