01-15-2013, 09:21 AM | #61 |
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I'm not bothered if I'm not scared reading a horror book. But, I'd like to read some that attempt to do so. The ones we have read have not even attempted to scare us. They've been so lame, a 5-year old could read them and not be affected.
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01-15-2013, 10:13 AM | #62 |
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The scariest movie ever was Target Earth (1954). At least, that's what I thought when my friend and I saw it on TV when our ages were still in single digits. It scared the daylights out of us. Although I didn't realize it at the time, the "robot army" was one robot. That's all the film's low budget allowed.
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01-15-2013, 10:55 AM | #63 |
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Aged 4, I used to hide behind the sofa when the MGM lion came on at the start of a movie.
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The problem is that people are tending to go for the free or short length books when it comes to horror and that doesn't work. We need to get out of the mentality that cheap, free, short just doesn't work most of the time. When it comes to horror, let's go for the established and maybe read something enjoyable.
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There have been a few discussions in horror forums I'm a member of that have argued reasonably convincingly that horror works quite a bit better in short form than in long form.Personally I prefer long form, but I see the point of short form horror.
I have found that it has been most beneficial for me to realise that there are wider and sometimes more interesting views out there than my own. Personally, I quite enjoyed the horror selections of the last two years. They were a bit outside what I would usually pick which ended up being quite enlightening. |
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Of course, there are some great masterpieces of horror in longer forms. Obviously Dracula, Uncle Silas and The Monk come to mind. Outside of Stephen King, I'm not as familiar with modern examples in the longer form but I'm sure they exist. I would love to have some suggestions from others as to where to start. |
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01-16-2013, 02:17 PM | #68 |
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So have we reached a consensus that horror sucks as a category?
A couple of the scariest stories that I have ever read are A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor (short story) and In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Only realistic scenarios involving non-imaginary things and people scare me as an adult. Though the film that left me with nightmares for weeks after seeing it as a child was The Creature from the Black Lagoon. |
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But I guess for me, I want a little back-story. I want to know a bit about the people placed in the situation. I want to get a developed view of what's going on. So most of the time I'll sacrifice some of this tension to get the bigger picture. But I certainly don't discount the argument. It makes quite a bit of sense. For me horror becomes a darker form of fantasy. Scary rarely happens, but horror isn't necessarily about being scared anyway. |
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