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Being SCARED by a book
- Thread starter Fenster
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Both those books unnerved me too. Although I had to admit IT has a bit of an edge over Phantoms for me - something about killer clowns.
savvyambrose
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Sadly enough, the only book that succeeded in terrifying me was a young adult book that I read when I was far too old for it - Jade Green. Something about bloody hands running around is too much for me.
savvyambrose
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Haven't read it, but it sounds good!
Well, it's a little elementary...
And I suppose this doesn't count, but when I read Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted, I didn't realize that the cover was glow-in-the dark (who decided that?!), and it was sitting out near my table lamp. I went to bed, and I saw this glowing. Now that was terrifying.
Lily
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I must be terribly desenstitized: I've been sitting here trying to think of an answer, and i can't. I don't remember any books that have given me that "look over your shoulder even hours after putting the book down" feeling.
Except MAYBE Pet Sematery, but that's mostly because a.) I was 11 at the time and b.) my cat had just died a few days before I read it.
there is a certain newish movie FX technique that freaks me out so badly that it makes me gag and shudder and goosepimple up, though.
too bad I can't get that from a book these days. maybe a diet of light and fluffy for a while might help make the next horror book actually be horrifying?
Except MAYBE Pet Sematery, but that's mostly because a.) I was 11 at the time and b.) my cat had just died a few days before I read it.
there is a certain newish movie FX technique that freaks me out so badly that it makes me gag and shudder and goosepimple up, though.
too bad I can't get that from a book these days. maybe a diet of light and fluffy for a while might help make the next horror book actually be horrifying?
chuephödli
Member
Red Dragon (Thomas Harris). At the time, I couldn't believe I'd be scared by a book. I had no idea when I started reading the book what I'd get, and then suddenly I found I had to turn on all these extra lamps and stuff.
Neither of the 2 filmings comes even close.
Neither of the 2 filmings comes even close.
It took me almost a month after its release, but I finally saw the film version of The Mist a week ago. I liked it, but it wasn't a classic or anything. It certainly wasn't scary (when are filmmakers going to get it through their heads that CGI effects don't work in horror films???) but it was fairly tense.
In terms of faithfulness, it followed the book pretty closely, which may have worked against it; i.e., since much of the action takes place in a grocery store, it gets pretty "stagey" after a while (is that even a word?). And in that respect, it certainly doesn't help that Frank Darabont used crew members he met while filming an episode of The Shield - the movie often seems like a padded-out episode of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits. You'd never guess this was from the same man who made The Shawshank Redemption.
Finally, if you haven't heard about the ending... well, I won't give it away here, but I will say I was very unhappy with how the movie ended, and many of the reviews I read said the same thing. It's just wrong. That's all I'll say.
In terms of faithfulness, it followed the book pretty closely, which may have worked against it; i.e., since much of the action takes place in a grocery store, it gets pretty "stagey" after a while (is that even a word?). And in that respect, it certainly doesn't help that Frank Darabont used crew members he met while filming an episode of The Shield - the movie often seems like a padded-out episode of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits. You'd never guess this was from the same man who made The Shawshank Redemption.
Finally, if you haven't heard about the ending... well, I won't give it away here, but I will say I was very unhappy with how the movie ended, and many of the reviews I read said the same thing. It's just wrong. That's all I'll say.
There have only been two books that have ever scared me.
1. When I was a teen, we lived in an older 2 story house. My bedroom was upstairs and the bathroom was downstairs; there was a small window about halfway down those stairs. I was reading 'Salem's Lot at the time and going past that little window on the stairs freaked me out! I kept expecting to see the little Glick boy begging to be let in
2. As I got older, I still read horror, but it lost it's grip to truly frighten me. The thing that gets me now are the stories that Could happen. In Patricia Cornwell's All That Remains, when Kay wakes up and smells maple syrup and realizes that the killer is in her room , that kept me freaked for a while.
1. When I was a teen, we lived in an older 2 story house. My bedroom was upstairs and the bathroom was downstairs; there was a small window about halfway down those stairs. I was reading 'Salem's Lot at the time and going past that little window on the stairs freaked me out! I kept expecting to see the little Glick boy begging to be let in
2. As I got older, I still read horror, but it lost it's grip to truly frighten me. The thing that gets me now are the stories that Could happen. In Patricia Cornwell's All That Remains, when Kay wakes up and smells maple syrup and realizes that the killer is in her room
, that kept me freaked for a while.