Discussion 39 - Special!

[lluvia]

Welcome to another discussion round! It is a pretty straightforward game where I give you a question that you'll answer in a new comment for two random cards, plus 1 random special card because Halloween is my favorite holiday. Since this is a discussion, don't be shy! Feel free to comment on other player's threads too~

This week's discussion is...

"What are some of your favorite scary stories/movies/games? Halloween is just around the corner, so let's use this post as a giant dump for creepy things, it can be anything from movie/shows/games recs to creepypasta links to whatever you feel like! (Just please remember to use appropriate warnings when applicable)"
(Example: I'm going to link two of my favorite pastas! The Dionaea House is old but still one of my favorite things to re-read around this time of the year, JUST DON'T DO IT WHILE HOME ALONE. And My Father's Long, Long Legs, this one is fairly recent and everyone should play/read it because it's amaaaazing.)

Have fun everybody! You've got until November 3, 2013 to comment!

Comments

[beccastareyes]

I think it's marketed as horror, but I like Mira Grant's books -- she has a trilogy about zombies*, and she's got an upcoming book about parasites. I don't know if they are scary as much as powerful, though.

(Merely reading the premise of the parasite one gave me a creepy dream, though, and it's based on things like Toxoplasma gondii, which are easily enough to give you the creeps: it's a single-celled microbe that, when it infects mice, it alters their behavior to make them more likely to be eaten by cats. Since T. gondii needs to be in a cat's digestive system for part of its complicated life cycle, this works out quite well for the microbe (but crummy for the mice). But it's pretty unsettling to think that a microbe can alter behavior of something as behaviorally complex as a mouse.)

* Though, like many things about zombies, it's also about humanity and things we fear. But there's also things like zombie wombats in one of the novellas.

[lluvia]

I often find that some of the scariest horror is the one that has basis on real life science and things. The one that just makes you go but what if.

[instrumentality]

WOW WHY WOULD YOU LINK TO CREEPYPASTAS NOW I HAD TO READ THEM AND I'M SCARED OF EVERYTHING

I love horror movies, especially Asian ones. My favorite are more thriller-like things though. If you've never seen A Tale of Two Sisters, I highly recommend it. As for stories, Clive Barker's writing is FANTASTIC. I watch a lot of scary things, but to be honest, I'm a really big coward. XD

[lluvia]

I'VE BEEN MEANING TO WATCH A TALE OF TWO SISTER FOREVER, actually, so thank you for the reminder. Also lol I am the same, I'm just a big masochist who gets scared by everything but keeps watching/reading anyway.

[eat]

i'm not too big on horror or creepypasta but i do like ghost-related murder mysteries! i recently finished another and i'd highly recommend it if you like suspenseful stories with gruesome deaths and the like. i'd also do the oblig recommendation of 07th expansion works (if you like stuff like another), when they cry obviously being well known for that kind of thing and higanbana too!

the higanbana vn is super great and has great horror stories that i found to be absorbing... i'm shouting this out because i really want the second night update to be out already...

[lluvia]

Ohh I super love 07th expansion, but I think I've only heard about Higanbana in passing since it's still newish? I should check it out!

[mermaidskull]

I love western horror movies. The more gory the better. I like saw and of course the old movies like the friday the 13th and scream.

[lluvia]

HOW MANY FRIDAYS DO WE HAVE NOW, ANYWAY.

[inarticulate]

Okay, first of all: Yamishibai. It's available on Crunchyroll, it's a 13-episode series of 5-minute shorts of varying creepiness levels. None of them are in-depth stories (because five minutes), but there are some great atmospheric gems as well as some jump scares.

Movie-wise, I tend to be fond of psychological horror more than gore/jump scares, so my all-time favorite is The Haunting (the original 1963 version). The book it's based on-- The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson-- is pretty amazing, too. Both of them are about a group of people brought to a haunted house by a scientist hoping to prove the existence of the supernatural. Um… Dark Water doesn't actually scare me, but I love it as a film and it is, technically, horror-- I'm not sure I can sum it up in a way that encompasses what I actually love about it, though, because some of it's a spoiler.

Let's see… The Tunnel is an indie film that is available entirely for free, legally, on the internet-- just go to youtube and search for "The Tunnel" and you should find it. The site contains their mission statement and is pretty rad as well. Actual story-wise, The Tunnel is a mockumentary about some reporters who go underground to do a report on abandoned waterways in Australia and… get more than they'd bargained for.

Game-wise… I'm sure everyone who's into that particular brand of horror knows the Fatal Frame games, so I won't go too far into detail except to say that I thought I wouldn't be able to play them because I get so nervous about horror games… and it turns out playing them is actually really relaxing for me. Not in a bad "this isn't actually creepy," way, but they're just really well-made and not the kind of terrifying that upsets me.

And… I think that's it for recs off the top of my head! I love horror, but I can be very picky what horror I actually like, so.

[kakusei_no_uta]

Omg you included Yami Shibai as well!!!! I love it ;A; it's so good~ ♥

... It has scared me out more than it should but I think that's why I love it oops!

[harmonium]

I love to go through reddit's short scary stories every once in awhile because imo WHILE THE LONG ONES CAN BE GREAT, I love the short ones that pack a punch. 'w'

[lluvia]

It's true, sometimes short stories are the ones that leave you the most 8(;;;;;

[accelerator]

I'm really easily spooked and tend to stay away from horror, though I do like to scare myself sometimes! When I'm in that mood I tend to gravitate towards things that touch on my childhood fears. Since they're all silly and irrational, I'm able to laugh at myself for still getting freaked out (as opposed to cowering under a blanket all night). It's a guilty pleasure, but I'll admit a good example of this for me are "lost episode" creepypastas. They're cliche and many are badly written but I had a lot of nightmares when I was little about ~secret evil cursed~ episodes of cartoons! I can't help but love reading them.

[lluvia]

Childhood fears are the best worst, I still have a bunch of those that I doubt I'll ever be able to get over them. 8'(

[saya]

I'm really not into this stuff, but.... normaly during halloween I have to watch Barton's Sleepy Hollow and Corpse bride (NBC is for christmas). I like that kind of movies, and now I will also watch Sleepy Hollow series that came out and Dracula series that came out =).

But... when it comes to horror I'm a "nah, not like it" person.

[lluvia]

I still need to check out Sleepy Hollow myself, but I've heard it's really fun so far!

[singingtomysoul]

I'm not a HUGE horror person, but I do love anything psychological horror - Black Swan, Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, the little I've seen of Paranoia Agent. Invented monsters don't get me, but talk about the human mind in a realistic not-ableist way and I'm hooked.

[lluvia]

Yesss, all of these. Psychological horror is probably my favorite kind of horror for that reason exactly.

[beezebeora]

For me, Creepypasta gets over done very fast. Same for SCP. I just can't get any type of trill for them, mainly because the storys are just using the old storys, and just changing them to be more modern. (Kid goes crazy, kills family = generic story. kid goes crazy, kills family, but this time we added some modern day details = jeff.) Its jsut not my thing.

As for scary games? Hmm I guess its the same thing. None of these things really scary me or thrill me much anymore. Don't get me wrong, I literally make a living off Horror Games here, I play them all the time. So I guess Silent Hill, Resident evil are my favorites?

For movies? I always loved The Crazies(1973) and its remake (2010). Evil Dead is another classic for me, especially the Laughing Furniture scene is one of my favorites in history of any horror movie. Which you can see here

As for links to share? Hmm I kinda like these comics does have a jump scare - linked to the ENG one since im pretty sure no one on here reads korean ahaha but thats about it.

I always love recommendations for horror related things (Especially games, liek i said, make a living off this crap lol.)

[lluvia]

Ahhh I love the Korean jumpscare comics so much, I think they're worse for me because I just know the scare is coming but I keep scrolling like a fool anyway.

[ets]

Ehhh I tend to find horror hilarious and I really dislike movies (I get more of a kick out of watching people's reactions to horror than to the material itself, usually, sorry!) so I shall post a game that's only somewhat-horror, but apparently enough to warrant complaints to the publisher and designer that it was too creepy, so they had to tone down the gore level in the sequel to pander to the fans -- 999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors. It's a graphic adventure/visual novel game really, but it counts as horror/survival as well. The story is told in a suspenseful manner and also involves (spoiler: main characters dying, sometimes in a rather gruesome fashion), and has quite a few puzzles and thought problems scattered about, which could be entertaining or annoying for you depending on what type of games you like to play.

These are free to play and are pretty creepy:
Deep Sleep and its sequel, Deeper Sleep

[lluvia]

999♥♥♥

and ooohh, bookmarking the sleep games you linked, they look interesting! :o

[netbug009]

I'm not a huge horror person but I recently I read the manga series Uzamaki and that was pretty good if you don't mind crazy levels of body horror. *shudders*

[lluvia]

Junji Ito :) :) :)

[baccikuzunoha]

My favorite horror stories have to be those videogame related creepypastas, specially the old pokemon and zelda ones. The people who wrote them put a lot of effort into them and even if they weren't scary or realistic, some of them had a really solid atmosphere, which was really cool!

Other than that, I've played some horror videogames like Resident Evil and Silent Hill and I managed to outlive the fear... too bad I can't say the same about games like Ib and Clock Tower. Pixelated monsters seem to be what scare me the most sad.

[lluvia]

You shouldn't have done that.

[barda]

I'm honestly really terrible with horror movies, I get scared really easily. Actually same goes for horror games. I do enjoy playing them though! Like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Left 4 Dead... hmmm. I think my favorite horror movie is The Cabin in the Woods. I'm completely in love with it, it's so great.

But yeah I am really bad with horror stuff I will sleep with my lights on if something scares me enough.

[lluvia]

Hahaha it's okay, I get scared really easily and when something scares me it will not let me sleep for days... but still, I will watch/read/play more horror afterwards, because I'm a big masochist.

[needles]

When I was younger, I used to like horror a lot, but now I get scared very easily (not to mention horror recently have been playing on my two biggest fears)... These days, my mind is enough to unsettle me, haha. Recently I liked The Cabin in the Woods, though, probably because it was more horror than comedy.

[lluvia]

Oohh, I still need to watch that! I should just come back to this post whenever I run out of creepy things to watch/read.

[kakusei_no_uta]

I actually like horror! It is not like I am in the mood for it every hour but I can enjoy some horrifying things. I haven't played many horror games but I like Slender a lot! Especially when I have +6 pages on me and it's all running and suspense kahaha!

Also, I am quite fond to Junji Ito's works as well!! Uzumaki is my favourite so far but Gyo it is also soo good!! I think what I like the most of him actually is the fact that it is such an absurd horror!! I love it ♥

Oh! I recently found some new weird anime called Yami Shibai, it is like short 5 minute episodes of Japanese ghost stories and urban legends. It is really great!!! I recommend it if you really like horror! It can be really really creepy at times though...

[lluvia]

Hahah yes, a lot of Junji Ito is so full of "what......." but at the same time it manages to be legit terrifying.

[admiral]

Haha I am a biiiiiiig weenie and cannot handle scary stuff at all. My horror tolerance level stops at like, Supernatural or the new Sleepy Hollow show (which is less scary and more "well sometimes there's a creepy thing on screen," but whatever).

But um, the first Bioshock game would probably fall into the kinda creepy category? I didn't like it as much as Bioshock Infinite, but it's still some pretty interesting world-building and the enemies are cool.

BEST HALLOWEEN MOVIE IS TOTALLY "HOCUS POCUS" THOUGH, DISNEY REPRESENT.

[lluvia]

+10000 HOCUS POCUS I can't even remember how many times I've seen it since it first came out and I will never tire of it.

[kakusei_no_uta]

Wow the creepy pasta with no name is sooo cool! Thank you for sharing! :D

[rosa]

pretty sure what has scarred me for life is the fatal frame series. fatal frame 4 not so much, since it doesn't have the camera effects of the previous games (where you can see ghosts behind the character while said character isn't looking ugh UGH)

it takes a lot for animanga to scare me, since atmosphere is important to me feeling scared at all. i don't know much about pastas, but here's the shortest horror story ever written to make up for it:

"the last man on earth hears a knock on his door."

[lluvia]

Oh wow, that mini-story just gave me a chill, WELL DONE. Somehow I'd never read it before.

[lesyay]

For me, I'm not much of a fan of scary... anything, really. But my girlfriend is a huuuge fan of that sort of thing.

Judging from watching her play, I'd say the Fatal Frame series really does it well. It has a lot of atmosphere - something a lot of other games, etc lack. Also, some really messed up endings. :(

....I'd like to give a shout-out to Eternal Darkness, though. Something hilarious about a game that will mess with a player meta-ly. Like when you go to save your game and it pops up with a screen going "Deleting save file now..." Just to mess with the player. Now THAT'S scary.

[lluvia]

omg Eternal Darkness was so good at breaking the 4th wall and freaking you out. THIS. ISN'T. REALLY HAPPENING!!!

[unlocks]

I can't really handle horror things, but my favorite creeypasta ever is the infamous Majora's Mask one. (You shouldn't have done that...)

Majora's Mask is my favorite Zelda game and it was creepy and dark enough already so I remember following the creepypasta as the videos were released and totally freaking out. It was so well done!

[lluvia]

Yesss me too, that ate like a week of my life. The second arc not so much, but I'm still patiently waiting for the day Jadusable actually manages to release the conclusion the way he wanted to. :c

[ankari]

I really enjoyed the Paranormal Activity movies! I don't really ENJOY scary stuff unless it's dumb because I don't like being scared haha, so I don't have a lot to say here, but yeah, especially the first PA movie. It was great!

[lluvia]

But then when they aren't scary you also complain.....

[aaveplsgo]

I love horror video games, but I'm too much of a scaredy cat to play them myself, so I usually just watch Let's Plays. I think the video game medium is perfect for horror since it can create a level of immersion and atmosphere that just doesn't work for movies or books.

Some of my favourite horror games are the Silent Hill series, Corpse Party, and Amnesia: The Dark Descent!

[lluvia]

Agreed on games + horror. It's a little like being in the shoes of the protagonists and even though you aren't really there, you get scared just as much. :')

Discussion 39 - Special!

[fall]

The message remains one of my favorite creepypasta. It's not the scariest creepypasta out there, but it's incredibly clever and the end managed to send a chill down my spine, which is quite the feat! I also really like a lot of short stories; everything featured in Stephen King's Everything's Eventual is fantastic (though King's short stories are fabulous in general, really.)

There's a lot of great horror games out there as well! The Fatal Frame series is one of my favorites, but you can't go wrong with the Silent Hill series, nor Clock Tower series and it's spiritual successor, Haunting Ground. Rule of Rose is positively chilling and probably my favorite game of all time and Corpse Party is also quite good. There are also a lot of fantastic RPG maker games out there, which are garnering a lot of attention for a reason! Ib is, of course, well known, but The Witch's House is my personal favorite. Mad Father, The Crooked Man and OFF are all worth a try. Most recently I've been really enjoying Mermaid Swamp.

Re: Discussion 39 - Special!

[lluvia]

Ohh I'd never heard about Mermaid Swamp, I should check it out! In general I'm always impressed when tiny RPG Maker games manage to be truly creepy, because that isn't exactly what you'd expect from little pixels and "low budget".

[sujini]

not a horror fan T_T and if "forced" to watch any horror movies, I tend to laugh at the scary parts ;p

(and I apologise I can't say more on the topic. horror/scary stuff isn't really my thing *meep*)

[lluvia]

Haha, it's okay! Horror is definitely not everyone's thing so it's understandable!