You have me thinking about visual horror films, I'll make a list. Reading the book Book of Lists: Horror has put me in a list making mood.

Yeah ... I saw ya list that book ... Could be a VERY interesting read ...

I could much better read about it, than see ... Yanno?

It is the ones that get too visual ... I can take the suggestion ... that's about it ...


Funny, i so easily share films ...


The Reading List? ... I always somehow feel violated listin' my books ...


Almost as if sharin' a journal entry ... odd, huh???

ZOMG I love horror. I do.

The Shining is the scariest film that I have ever seen. Most of my favorite horror movies have psychological or sociological implications that make them terrifying outside of whatever gore there may be (but I do love ultra-violence sometimes).

I guess terror is just one the most intense emotions to capture and when it's done well it's fantastic.

Dawn of the Dead is one of my favorites too. Like a drama or a comedy or anything it has great characters and great acting. You actually care about whether or not the people live or die and you place them in the most extreme life or death circumstances. In that sense there's a bit of the roller-coaster rhythm.

Plus chainsaws are cool.

I don't mean visual as in gore, but visual as in mood and atmosphere.

And guitars with drills on the end are cool too.

Didya know that the first Boulder apartment scenes in The Shining were filmed in my building???

And ... Stephen King lived here back in the day ...

Our hallway carpets were all spooky, fresh, wet blood red up until 1 year ago ...

And we have an elevator that, of course, opens out to this hallway ... SO eerily resemblin' the blood elevator to hall scene in The Shining ...

I am CERTAIN it was the scene's inspiration ... It was freaky!

And we have some interesting hauntings here, too ...

When I first was shone the building ... and saw the carpet ... I said... NO WAY!!!

Good thang the apartment is FINE inside!!! Wild, uh???

Gotta jack ... I'll check y'all on da flip ...

Thanx for sharin' ...

Stephen King started many of his novels while living in Boulder, including The Stand, which is why Boulder, Colorado is where part of the book takes place.

Especially when it's Linnea Quigley doing the Virgin Dance Of The Double Chainsaws.

Reasons For Liking Horror # 16: Chicks Covered In Blood

"Perhaps we invent artificial horrors to help us cope with the real ones."
- Donald Pleasance(Terror In The Aisles)

I highly recommend Stephen King's book- Danse Macabre. King talks about why he thinks some people like to be scared- each section focuses on a different media- Movies, TV, Radio, and books.

Thanx, Torgo ...


Sounds like some good insight in helping me understand it ...

I'll pick it up!

Makes me realize to communicate that I've almost not made it out alive, more than once now ...

I've lived the horror first hand and felt dismemberment and death actually breathe down my neck ...

Perhaps that is why I do not care to imbibe those sensations, far too close ...

Yet??? Dexter is my favourite Telly show ...

A walking contradiction am I, then ...

... We are all SO complicated, uh!?

I think we all contradict our selves in some ways.


I also recommend The Book Of Lists: Horror it's a great way to get many many perspectives from different people on horror. It's not just top 10 movie lists(which is what I was expecting before I read it), there are some favorites lists, but it also has a great variety of lists from dumb things people do in horror films to songs inspired by horror.

The favorite list I enjoyed the most was the late Johnny Ramone's top horror film faves. Each film has a comment from his wife saying why he liked each film. I thought it a nice tribute.

Another is a list of actors/actresses that turned down famous horror roles- I had no idea that at one time Gene Hackman was going to write/direct and play Lector in the film adaptation of Silence Of The Lambs!

Funny, as some of the ones that get under yours and Plastic's skin are the more supernatural ones ...

The ones I'm the most comfy w/ ...

I've had such a psychic, supernaturally connected life, esp. w/ my entire family on 'the other side' ... those ones just turn me on ...

I just take for granted communication w/ the other side ... My history is steeped w/ it ...

Horror too much reminds me of this waking realm ... ... And what I've endured, and hate that others must ...

*sigh*

Yeah, that book does sound compellingly interesting, T ... As well as the Danse Macabre, cheers ...

I am mystified by it, the attraction that is ...

Yeah, the supernatural ones get me- especially films like Ringu, and The Exorcist that have moments that just aren't natural to see with Ringu it's the girl crawling out of the television(or in the case of Ringu 2 crawling out of the well), and with The Exorcist it's Regan's spider-walk down the steps. Or with the sadly overlooked ghost movie- The Forgotten One, it's when Terry O'Quinn's character starts encountering the ghost which wasn't any kind of special effects just a woman with long black hair and white nightgown.

Also the Zuni fetish doll segment in Trilogy Of Terror. And as corny as Attack Of The Beast Creatures is it had moments that spooked me because the creatures in that look like the Zuni fetish doll.

As a kid all horror films scared me, I was equally frightened by slashers and supernatural/ghost flicks. I actually miss those days when I could pop in the cheesiest of slasher films and be frightened by it.