tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281469968333860626.post4287357439576053170..comments2024-03-28T14:11:02.991-04:00Comments on Still Writing: HorrifyingJ E Oneilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09780097298061829471noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281469968333860626.post-10822310382121964812010-12-29T13:47:45.619-05:002010-12-29T13:47:45.619-05:00Su: I wonder how quiet they'd be if they'd...Su: I wonder how quiet they'd be if they'd seen the R version. <br><br>Debbie: Agreed. The not knowing is much scarier, maybe because what we imagine is worse.<br><br>David: Great examples! I saw The Orphanage and remember a lot of the jumps. It was a very tense movie--I think Psycho was too, actually. <br><br>Gale: That does sound like a terrifying scene. Good point that a book doesn't have to be labeled "horror" to have scary moments.JEFritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03372746219262163566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281469968333860626.post-38301940507397278882010-12-29T10:00:36.295-05:002010-12-29T10:00:36.295-05:00I don't read much horror. But I certainly find...I don't read much horror. But I certainly find scenes to be horrific. In The Ginseng Hunter, the Great Leader demands everyone go out in the fields and bang pots and pans to scare the sparrows away from eating seeds in the field and keep banging until all the sparrows drop dead-their hearts give out because they have no where to land. Next year, no sparrows, nothing to eat the locusts and there's a great famine anyway. Scary--all around.Gale Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01154566080397910529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281469968333860626.post-5223517339199680522010-12-29T04:23:36.011-05:002010-12-29T04:23:36.011-05:00Another thought-provoking post!Of course the origi...Another thought-provoking post!<br><br>Of course the original 'Psycho' is very scary. But again it is not particularly gruesome (well apart from the shower scene). There is simply much more going on in your head making you think it is scarier than it is. Also, the score adds brilliantly to that film and raises tension.<br><br>I also really enjoyed 'Orphanage' a recent Spanish-language horror film. It had one of those moments when the whole of the cinema jumped out of their collective seats....and it came at a moment when you imagined that nothing could scare you. Brilliant!Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13420282305471393579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281469968333860626.post-91138364463607173752010-12-28T18:03:43.523-05:002010-12-28T18:03:43.523-05:00I don't read much horror, and I rarely watch i...I don't read much horror, and I rarely watch it. But I agree with you that the slow building of creepiness & suspense is much more effective than outright violence and gore. I'm thinking of "Signs" and "The Village". Both were much scarier *before* you saw the creatures.<br><br>That said, one of the members of my crit group writes horror, so I do get to read it occasionally.<br><br>~DebbieDebbie Maxwell Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02533418585502995994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281469968333860626.post-11928986572874497332010-12-28T17:58:51.031-05:002010-12-28T17:58:51.031-05:00I don't really do scary. Lord of the Rings is ...I don't really do scary. <i>Lord of the Rings</i> is about as scary as I will go. Isn't that sad?<br><br>When I worked at a children's home, one of the boys brought home the old <i>Salem's Lot</i> one day-- they couldn't watch the newer version because of the R rating, so I think they thought they were getting away with something. I let them watch it and they all slept with the lights on that night. Result = quite afternoon AND night! :)Suhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11862479925124552922noreply@blogger.com