Imagination runs wild - Price for the love of horror
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Anybody whose imagination has a habit of running wild shouldn't watch horror movies or play disturbing computer games.
I should tell myself that again.
I've just made myself a bit jumpy when I went to my bathroom to retrieve something. The light has been out for some time and I've been too lazy to replace the bulb. Since it's kinda dark, I almost thought I saw something horrible hanging from the ceiling. I left feeling kinda jumpy but thought I should bravely go take a look and reassure myself that there's nothing there.
There isn't, of course.
I laughed at myself. That's what you get for playing The Suffering all by yourself last night.
The Suffering is a computer game, genre action shooter from third or first person view. It's backstory is about this character who was convicted and sentenced to deathrow for murdering his wife and two sons. He claims he can't remember anything.(You're playing him.) The scene opens with you being locked in your cell, suddenly there is an earthquake. Next, you start hearing people around you screaming and a prisoner was dragged into the darkness. The gates are opened and you step out.
A guard at the gate tells you to stay put, suddenly from above, a creature with a blade for an arm spears him through his head. The guard falls to the ground dead.
From here on, you are fighting for your life as you try to find a way to escape the prison and find out what's going on. You'll soon find that the island on which the prison stands on has a very unpleasant history of bad things happening. In addition, you keep getting hit by strange visions of things might have happened on this island and of your deceased family.
You'll meet the most horrific creatures (probably ghosts of those who were executed in the prison.) The game designers did well, many times, I dreaded what's ahead, at the same time, I couldn't stop playing because I wanted to know what's going to happen next and learn more about the mysterious cursed island and its history.
The point is that this game really succeeded in creeping me out. (And people say Silent Hill is scarier, I cannot dare imagine!) The game is full of eerie, gory and disturbing scenes, combined with sounds (metal scrapping against the wall, chains, screams and ghostly voices) makes for a complete living-in-a-nightmare experience. (The game is rated M - it's really not for children!)
Horror movies can scare me really good too. I actually become afraid of the dark for a few weeks before things go back to normal (in my head) again.
I remember watching The Ring (the original Japanese version, which IMHO is scarier than the American version) - the one where the ghostly murdered girl with the long black hair comes out of the television to scare her victims to death. For weeks after, I was very wary of my television.
If you never seen this one, you really have to, especially if you are a horror fan. Almost everything else is mild compared to The Ring.
And still, I love watching horror movies.
I don't like lying half awake thinking horrible thoughts about what's under the bed or outside my window, but I guess the love of a good horror story far surpasses the fear. *laughs nervously*
A real good horror story doesn't reveal everything at once in the beginning. It isn't really about what you know but what you don't know. It reveals a little at a time. So, you watch or play on even if you are feeling really scared because you just have to know why the terrible things are happening. Good horror stories are complex tales of terrible things that are triggered by some innocent event that could happen to anyone, and then coming together in seemingly senseless and cold nasty ways to terrorise the innocent - like you.
For now, I'm feeling jumpy. I gotta be careful not to let my imagination play tricks on me and tell me there's something lurking in the dark corners of my apartment, or sneaking round the corner of my eye or that there's something watching me behind my back.
Who's afraid? Me? Hell, no... *shivers*
I should tell myself that again.
I've just made myself a bit jumpy when I went to my bathroom to retrieve something. The light has been out for some time and I've been too lazy to replace the bulb. Since it's kinda dark, I almost thought I saw something horrible hanging from the ceiling. I left feeling kinda jumpy but thought I should bravely go take a look and reassure myself that there's nothing there.
There isn't, of course.
I laughed at myself. That's what you get for playing The Suffering all by yourself last night.
The Suffering is a computer game, genre action shooter from third or first person view. It's backstory is about this character who was convicted and sentenced to deathrow for murdering his wife and two sons. He claims he can't remember anything.(You're playing him.) The scene opens with you being locked in your cell, suddenly there is an earthquake. Next, you start hearing people around you screaming and a prisoner was dragged into the darkness. The gates are opened and you step out.
A guard at the gate tells you to stay put, suddenly from above, a creature with a blade for an arm spears him through his head. The guard falls to the ground dead.
From here on, you are fighting for your life as you try to find a way to escape the prison and find out what's going on. You'll soon find that the island on which the prison stands on has a very unpleasant history of bad things happening. In addition, you keep getting hit by strange visions of things might have happened on this island and of your deceased family.
You'll meet the most horrific creatures (probably ghosts of those who were executed in the prison.) The game designers did well, many times, I dreaded what's ahead, at the same time, I couldn't stop playing because I wanted to know what's going to happen next and learn more about the mysterious cursed island and its history.
The point is that this game really succeeded in creeping me out. (And people say Silent Hill is scarier, I cannot dare imagine!) The game is full of eerie, gory and disturbing scenes, combined with sounds (metal scrapping against the wall, chains, screams and ghostly voices) makes for a complete living-in-a-nightmare experience. (The game is rated M - it's really not for children!)
Horror movies can scare me really good too. I actually become afraid of the dark for a few weeks before things go back to normal (in my head) again.
I remember watching The Ring (the original Japanese version, which IMHO is scarier than the American version) - the one where the ghostly murdered girl with the long black hair comes out of the television to scare her victims to death. For weeks after, I was very wary of my television.
If you never seen this one, you really have to, especially if you are a horror fan. Almost everything else is mild compared to The Ring.
And still, I love watching horror movies.
I don't like lying half awake thinking horrible thoughts about what's under the bed or outside my window, but I guess the love of a good horror story far surpasses the fear. *laughs nervously*
A real good horror story doesn't reveal everything at once in the beginning. It isn't really about what you know but what you don't know. It reveals a little at a time. So, you watch or play on even if you are feeling really scared because you just have to know why the terrible things are happening. Good horror stories are complex tales of terrible things that are triggered by some innocent event that could happen to anyone, and then coming together in seemingly senseless and cold nasty ways to terrorise the innocent - like you.
For now, I'm feeling jumpy. I gotta be careful not to let my imagination play tricks on me and tell me there's something lurking in the dark corners of my apartment, or sneaking round the corner of my eye or that there's something watching me behind my back.
Who's afraid? Me? Hell, no... *shivers*
