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Originally Posted by Blossom
Me either. I still don't read or watch scary stories. I grew up in my own nightmare and had bad dreams from it. I don't need anything else to add to my imagination.
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It's weird--I don't really understand the fascination with horror/being scared, myself. I certainly didn't expect to jump out of my bed every 10 minutes post-Salem's Lot, either, LOL, (mumble) years ago. But I think I can honestly say it's the only book that ever really "frightened" me, or made me react that way. Usually, I'm just disgusted. (Particularly gratuitous animal violence. Definitely puts me in a very bad mood.)
I also don't get the horror-film thing, although everyone has different levels of "horror." I knew a woman that actually walked out of Jurassic Park because it
frightened her. I don't understand that at all--I don't think I've ever been "frightened" by a movie--it's a movie, right? I certainly never felt like the T-Rex was going to leap off the screen and get me. (Although, I do have a thing about heights, and since the advent of HD, I do get a jolt of adrenaline in the bottom of my feet when I see a scene with a huge distance down, like the MI scene with Cruise where he jumped off some massive building.) Mostly, I usually end up nauseated from watching "horror-porn" type movies, which seem to be trying to out-gross (pun alert!) the other. ;-)
Hitch