When were you last really scared?We'd been watching the Shining. We were staying in an old church building. In hindsight, taking the shortcut home after midnight, in the mist, through the old graveyard was a bad idea.
I'm not sure what started it, but suddenly all the hairs on my neck had gone up and I was crapping myself. It was almost as bad as when, after a few cups of coffee too many and buzzing on caffeine, I got freaked out by my own reflection in the toilets.
When were you last really scared?
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chthonic, Thu 22 Feb 2007, 15:43)
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how to tell this succinctly...hmmm...I can watch any horror movie and end it with a shrug. They just don't scare me. Unless they're Japanese, because then I have 'issues'. Even some remakes.
'The Grudge'. Watching it on dvd with the boyfriend, it was really, really getting to me, to the extent I was spending a lot of time under a duvet with my eyes screwed shut. The first scary crescendo had happened, and it was the scene on the bus in the daytime. I'd decided this calmer moment was a good cue to stop watching. Asked the other half to press stop. Took my head out of the covers and screamed.
See, the bugger didn't press stop, he pressed pause. And on the screen, in the otherwise perfectly innocuous daytime bus scene, reflected in the window by Sarah Michelle Gellar was the face of the evil girl.
So flapping and trying to calm myself down, shouted at boyfriend to press stop, NOT PAUSE. So of course, he pressed PLAY. Cue that awful, croaking/screeching noise, and lots more screaming.
(, Fri 23 Feb 2007, 8:29, Reply)
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