Chills, Thrills and Spills: A Horror Thread

PLEASE GODS LET IT BE GOOD.

Also in film we're going to be watching The Babadook later in the semester as our example of horror as a film genre!

 

oh lord the Babadook legitimately frightened me. geez.

 

Crossposting because im excited for thing AND since this is a general horror thread id love to hear about others' experience with haunted houses and zombie runs and other such events.

 

When I go to those sorts of things I play find the reference and giggle. I'm not one of the sorts that gets chased to the bathroom by the monsters at Scary Farm. No. I laugh the demons off and frolic through my mazes of the dead and deranged.

 

I've never had the chance to go to one! No, strike that, I DID get tickets to go to Halloween Horror Nights when I lived in Orlando, but by that point my knees were already so terrible that I knew I wasn't going to be able to walk everywhere. I've heard awesome things about that sort of stuff though.

 

I went to a school run haunted house, which was okay, but ive never been to a really good one

 

Back when I was in college, I got involved in doing a haunted house deal in the abandoned dorm next to mine. My part was being ELECTROCUTED, so like strobe lights and sizzling zapping sound effects while I SCREEEAAAAMED and jolted around. But it would only trigger when someone walked into my otherwise dark, quiet area.

God, I get a kick out of scaring the shit out of people. >:D

 

one of the worst (best?) things I've ever done involved sitting outside my house in my costume last year.

see, this was my costume:

The hands are attached to poles which in turn are covered in fur "sleeves," so that I can put my real forearms inside the sleeves and, like.. quadruped around. It's great.

The other great thing about this costume is that it covers all of me? So, last year after trick-or-treating I set out a lawn chair in front of my house and sat in it. My dad also loves Halloween and our house is known as the house with the scary face paint guy, and last year he was doing poses inside with a strobe light pointed at him so he looked jerky and weird. People would come up and think I was a weird dummy. And then I would move - tilt my head or wave or tap them on the shoulder. >:]

It was GREAT. One guy was in the middle of telling my dad how much he liked his spoopy house, but he apparently hadn't noticed I was alive because when I moved he ran off IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS COMPLIMENT.

 

LMAO THAT'S AWESOME

 

Just a question for you people, where does body horror rank on your level of creepiness?

 

depends on the type of body horror

 

Yeah, it varies. I like it generally speaking, but sometimes it's just gross or hilarious, not creepy.

So like on a scale from 1 to 10, around a 7 average.

 

It is nearly October, it is time for horror books

What are people's favorites?

 

*_* anything from Caitlin Kiernan, esp the Red Tree

also American Elsewhere, which I need to reread soon probably. it's a brick, but it's so good


eta: I just thought of We Have Always Lived in the Castle as well, but I'm not sure if that count as horror?

 

The demonata series by darren shan is a+ Good. I like all his other books too, he does spoopy well.

 

it's technically a kid's book
but coraline?

 

Any of Stephen King's anthology books, but especially "Full Dark, No Stars"!

 

Once I went to Busch Gardens in VA for their Halloween horror nights, and when one of the staff in their haunted maze tried to loom over me I blurted out "so do you do professional wrestling?" It turns out yes, he worked in the independent circuit. Really nice dude.

re: horror books, House of Leaves scared the bejeezus out of me. I also like Revival by Stephen King, about a priest who decides he wants to know what comes after death and everything goes horribly wrong.

 

Depends on the type of body horror. It runs from visceral disgust to sexy as fuck to a combination of the two. Sometimes it is hilarious.

Also my favorite books horror wise? Kiernan books. Definitely. The Drowning Girl in particular is my fav. I also REALLY FUCKING ADORE Lovecraft. I'm very fond of The Colours out of Space. And his stuff in general. But that is one of my favorites. I also really love Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series. It's less horror in the sense that those other things I listed are but it is choke full of characters from horror, mystery, and sci-fi fiction.

 

I really wanted to like House of Leaves, and enjoyed some parts of it, but I didn't feel like it pulled it off.

My recommendation: "Through the Woods" by Em Carroll.