Comments on: Of Cereal Monsters and Serial Killers: When I Learned To Love The Horror

By: wendy

wendy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:49:04 +0000

For me, The Ring, Exorcist (no brainer there), Chucky…that doll, that horrible horrible doll…

And funnily enough, the music to Jaws scared the hell out of me. Whenever I go near the sea (every damn day) I hear ‘thump thump thump thump’ in my head….slightly unhinged? Absolutely… There was even a time when I wouldn’t swim in a swimming pool.

Look forward to the next post

By: JNewman

JNewman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:56:22 +0000

I had similar dreams when I was a child, only some of them involved the Devil coming to get me. I eventually figured out how to take control as well and, to this day, I rarely have nightmares. Oh, I have dreams that some people might think were scary, but that isn’t the same. I wake up from those dreams with a big grin on my face.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:50:30 +0000

Sad that J-Horror kind of flared up and out, and fizzled fast.

The Ring was awesome. And yeah, terrifying.

Sequel, not so much.

Slasher flicks never scared me. They always entertained me, but… nope, no fear factor there.

– c.

By: Daniel Bayn

Daniel Bayn — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:48:53 +0000

“Into the Screaming Clown’s Mouth.” Sounds like the worst porno ever made, or… the best?

I’ve never liked slasher flicks, but I can’t say horror movies every really terrified me until The Ring. Damn you, j-horror and your dead little girls!!!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:26:58 +0000

Ahhh. “Mine.” Hecks yes.

I went through a similar “Consume Everything On The Horror Shelves” phase. Good times.

– c.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:05:32 +0000

Ah. I was 15 when i took control and rented every freaking horror tape that Rite Aid carried.

My childhood horrors were Trilogy of Terror (that doll. that fucking doll), Twilight Zone’s “Eye of the Beholder,” and every frigging episode of Night Stalker. Thanks, parents.

I lurved all of the crap I rented. The Troma atrocities. Everything and anything zombie. Remember how good Dan Simmons used to be?

The 3 books that scared the beejeezus out of me were Card’s “Lost Boys,” “Pet Sematary,” and “Mine.” I don’t know if it was because I’m female and my brain knew I would one day be a parent or what. My lizard brain now finds child-centric episodes of SVU utterly terrifying.

And clowns. Keep the fucking clowns away from me.