1) the anticipation and build a monster is given (like ironclad was talking about)
Yes, but does that work more than once? Are you still as scared the second time you see that?
2) Something we're vaguely familiar with and is usually comforting of positive, being twisted so that it's no longer the same, and in a negative ominous way.
That is textbook unheimlich. The different-but-same, or same-but-different.
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Monsters. Why are they scary?
- 13/09/2010 05:44:08 PM
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It's always best not to see the monster
- 13/09/2010 06:06:07 PM
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Invisible monsters are scary the first time you see the film/episode
- 13/09/2010 06:33:15 PM
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I get more scared by writing than by film, so I'm going to go with the unseen bit.
- 13/09/2010 06:49:38 PM
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Re: I get more scared by writing than by film, so I'm going to go with the unseen bit.
- 13/09/2010 06:52:07 PM
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im not scared of then but i'm creeped out by children.
- 13/09/2010 08:34:59 PM
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children singing nursery rhymes and making the lyrics sound scary
- 14/09/2010 08:56:37 AM
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Things that are Wrong or unknowable.
- 14/09/2010 02:04:54 AM
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But aren't all monsters "wrong" by definition? *NM*
- 14/09/2010 10:04:05 AM
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imo, one of two things
- 14/09/2010 05:24:45 AM
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unheimlich
- 14/09/2010 10:05:07 AM
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anything that makes me jump
- 14/09/2010 09:01:11 AM
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Re: anything that makes me jump
- 14/09/2010 10:05:49 AM
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no because there's often some screechy violin or some music in the background
- 15/09/2010 10:36:26 PM
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The Gentlemen from Hush were probably the creepiest monsters I've ever seen.
- 14/09/2010 04:10:22 PM
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Re: The Gentlemen from Hush were probably the creepiest monsters I've ever seen.
- 14/09/2010 04:13:27 PM
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I think that feeling of something being just off is quite creepy
- 14/09/2010 04:51:02 PM
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Re: I think that feeling of something being just off is quite creepy
- 14/09/2010 04:51:47 PM
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You really need to watch Monsters, Inc. *NM*
- 15/09/2010 03:53:20 AM
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I read the graphic novel of Coraline yesterday. The villains have buttons for eyes.
- 18/09/2010 12:32:49 PM
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Re: I read the graphic novel of Coraline yesterday. The villains have buttons for eyes.
- 18/09/2010 12:33:46 PM
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I watched an interview with Gaiman in which he said Coraline scares adults but not kids.
- 18/09/2010 12:41:40 PM
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I think that what I can't see is scarier. Once they actually take a physical form it ceases to work.
- 18/09/2010 10:37:53 PM
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