june gloom on 19/9/2010 at 08:18
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ZymeAddict on 19/9/2010 at 08:42
This might sound corny, but space aliens, specifically "grays," have always freaked me out.
Of course, growing up during the nineties conspiracy/extraterrestrial boom, with things like "Alien Autopsy" on television all the time, it was kind of unavoidable I'd hear something about the subject, but it wasn't until I saw this
Time magazine on a newstand when I was about 9, that they really embedded themselves in my imagination and started to creep the fuck out of me:
Inline Image:
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1997/1101970623_400.jpgAll those alien abduction stories seemed to imply it was just a matter of chance whether I might wake up in the middle of the night to see a face like that, or this:
Inline Image:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ce/Communion_book_cover.jpg/367px-Communion_book_cover.jpgoutside my window or standing right over me, starring into my very being with those empty, soulless eyes. Ugh.
Watching
The X-Files whenever possible didn't help much either.
Kolya on 19/9/2010 at 10:12
Maybe they're friendly?
nicked on 19/9/2010 at 17:26
Yeah the (very unlikely) possibility of aliens abducting me scares me a bit. Mainly due to a combination of hearing a story of a farmer who kept seeing a "gremlin face" peering in his window, and playing UFO Enemy Unknown (the scariest missions of which are generally the earlier ones - underequipped, inexperienced soldiers, little grey Sectoid aliens, silent barns and farmhouses, middle of the night). The X Files didn't help either.
Although the scariest X-Files episode, that I truly can never watch again cos it freaked me out so much, is this one: (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_a_Deux_%28The_X-Files%29) Folie a Deux. It's about this guy who may actually be a horrible insect monster who turns people into zombies but is using pheremones to make himself and his zombies appear like normal people. Alright, the premise sounds a bit silly, but it's skillfully done and absolutely bloody terrifying.
reizak on 20/9/2010 at 08:25
There were a lot of brilliantly creepy X-Files episodes, but one that stuck with me is (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_%28The_X-Files%29) Home, probably mostly because you know something like that has probably happened somewhere.
I can't really think of anything in real life that would scare me more than anything else (although there are plenty of things that do scare me), but in games I have special trouble with underground water. It started with Daggerfall where you'd have those massive dungeons that went on forever and then at the bottom there'd be a flooded section, and going into that dark water always took a lot of deliberation, which kinda stuck. Underground lakes are particularly creepy. I'm fearing the day flooded dungeons are added to Minecraft.
june gloom on 20/9/2010 at 09:05
You know what X-Files ep always got me was (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotesque_%28The_X-Files%29) Grotesque. Easily the darkest episode of the X-Files ever, made ever darker by heavily implying that the "demon possession" was simple human insanity. That plays into my fear of raw, bestial human violence, which in turn made the episode my favourite from season 3 and probably my favourite non-comedy, non-mytharc episode ever.
Thirith on 20/9/2010 at 10:05
That one felt very much like a precursor to Millennium to me. Same tone and atmosphere.
Harvester on 20/9/2010 at 19:22
I remember that thread here when X-files episodes director Kim Manners died, how many of you were saying that he was a very good director. And now I see that all these episodes that you consider the scariest, are directed by him. So I guess he really was a good horror director, too bad he didn't get to direct some actual horror movies. I remember watching and liking Home, I really should check out these other episodes you mentioned.
As for things that scare me, my best friend (female) is suffering from a heavy depression and has suicidal thoughts. She's spending some time in a mental hospital right now for her own safety. The thought of losing her scares me a lot sometimes. I'm trying my best to support her, distract her from her heavy thoughts, relax her and cheer her up, but even when we spend an evening together and we both have fun, she's just as depressed again the next morning. I guess it just works that way with a severe depression, but that means there's not a lot I can do for her in the long term and that makes me feel pretty powerless to help.
Tocky on 21/9/2010 at 02:55
Quote Posted by reizak
. Underground lakes are particularly creepy.
I'm guessing this place- (
http://www.thelostsea.com/) won't be on your list of must see tourist traps.
I can never seem to catch a full breath in a cave. This one is not nearly as well lit as the pictures indicate either.
And you have my sympathy, Harvester. Powerless is a bad one.
Jenesis on 21/9/2010 at 10:44
Thought of another one. I always get a shudder watching films when someone dies in a foreign environment (underwater, in space, etc) because their protection has failed. I think it's because they can see it coming - they realize that their spacesuit is ripped, or whatever, and there's nothing they can do except wait for the end. Partly I think it's the fact that they know it's coming, partly that the ever-present external danger of the vacuum or whatever has got in, it's in, aargh help!
