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[Cthulhu]

BOO!

[Vattic]

Other than The Thing, John Carpenter remake, I've not seen a decent horror film in ages. I must admit, though, that I avoid horror generally as I'm bored with watching people getting butchered.

All this talk of a man locked in a room / hearing something at the door makes me think of I am Legend, the book by Richard Matheson. It managed to unnerve me but not for usual reasons. If you didn't like the film I'd suggest you read the book anyway.

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I think it was through empathy with the main character. The pacing really set me up for a deep sense of loss at the appropriate places. The whole book has really stuck with me.

Despite it's many faults the first F.E.A.R game got plenty of jumps out of me. It wasn't really a conceptual fright but I liked how it played with my expectations. It was, admittedly, the first horror game I played in a long while and the gun that shot long rivets which pinned your enemies was too fun.

The remake of the first Resident Evil game for the GameCube managed to freak me out at times; Especially when I realised I should have burnt all those zombies through the game and saw each of them flash before my eyes.

[Urist is dead tome]

Here's a spooky little comic:

http://brasscockroach.com/h4ll0w33n2007/manga/Amigara-Full/Amigara.html

[fqllve]

Sometimes, simple things can be creepy as well.

The last man on Earth sat in a room. There was a knock upon the door.

I read a story that basically had that premise in the Thomas Disch collection Fun With Your New Head, it wasn't really scary but it was kinda creepy. A lot of the stories in that collection are like that. The best one is probably Come to Venus Melancholy which was kinda like if Philip K Dick had written the Jupiter Mission section of 2001.

[Grakelin]

Ocean House Hotel from VtM: Bloodlines.

Played it again earlier tonight. Even though I knew what was coming, it still scared me.

In the event you should play it again, try it with Auspex on for a while. No guarantees, but you might just see somthing interesting...

I had Auspex on quite a bit because my brightness settings are pretty low, but I didn't see much, except the cool way the chick's aura fades when she runs behind walls.

[Sowelu]

What, no Doctor Who?

"Blink" messed a lot of people up (but it's way overhyped, so maybe you shouldn't bother by now).  "Silence in the Library" was excellent.  "The Impossible Planet" really screwed with me, at least the first half of it.  A lot of Doctor Who is campy, but that just means that the honestly scary ones that come out of nowhere really nail you.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

"The Impossible Planet" really screwed with me, at least the first half of it.

We must feed...
We must feed....
We must feed...
*Opening Plays*
...you, if you are hungry.

[hamburgerfan]

Sometimes, simple things can be creepy as well.

The last man on Earth sat in a room. There was a knock upon the door.

There is an even shorter one: The last man on Earth sat in a room. There was a lock on the door.

The last man on Earth sat in a room. There was a sock on the door.

[Angel Of Death]

Sometimes, simple things can be creepy as well.

The last man on Earth sat in a room. There was a knock upon the door.

There is an even shorter one: The last man on Earth sat in a room. There was a lock on the door.

The last man on Earth sat in a room. There was a sock on the door.

The last man on Earth sat in a room. There was a roc on the door.

[Il Palazzo]

What, no Doctor Who?

"Blink" messed a lot of people up (but it's way overhyped, so maybe you shouldn't bother by now).  "Silence in the Library" was excellent.  "The Impossible Planet" really screwed with me, at least the first half of it.  A lot of Doctor Who is campy, but that just means that the honestly scary ones that come out of nowhere really nail you.

Personally, I've found "Midnight" to be the scariest one.

[Criptfeind]

Here's a spooky little comic:

http://brasscockroach.com/h4ll0w33n2007/manga/Amigara-Full/Amigara.html

I am sorry, but I can not be afraid of something where the big  ‘shocking’ ‘reveal’ says Dur dur dur.

Although the implications of how he survived months without food or water is pretty interesting.

[Urist is dead tome]

Here's a spooky little comic:

http://brasscockroach.com/h4ll0w33n2007/manga/Amigara-Full/Amigara.html

I am sorry, but I can not be afraid of something where the big  ‘shocking’ ‘reveal’ says Dur dur dur.

Although the implications of how he survived months without food or water is pretty interesting.

That was the noise of him sliding. At best I would say it was spooky.

[DeKaFu]

I am sorry, but I can not be afraid of something where the big  ‘shocking’ ‘reveal’ says Dur dur dur.

Although the implications of how he survived months without food or water is pretty interesting.

I hear this a lot about it, but I'm living proof that YMMV on it. After the story broke my mind, I spent a lot of time trying (not) to imagine what kind of sound that was trying to represent. As a result, I was set on edge by any odd sounds for about a month.

Your second point was something I clung to as to why something like this could never be possible. I think that's part of what got to me - apart from that, there was nothing overtly supernatural about the process.

Also,

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It wasn't the final page that got to me. It was the page before, where they just showed the distorted shapes in the stone. The implication. That was the reveal that shattered me. I've always held that the final page wasn't even necessary.

[Criptfeind]

Your second point was something I clung to as to why something like this could never be possible. I think that's part of what got to me - apart from that, there was nothing overtly supernatural about the process.

Huh. I did not even think of magicness. I just thought since, you know, there were thousands of inputs up only a couple of outputs. My mind went straight to cannibalism.

Think of the tunnels slowly growing nearer to eachother and squishing you together. What else would you be able to do?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

What, no Doctor Who?

"Blink" messed a lot of people up (but it's way overhyped, so maybe you shouldn't bother by now).  "Silence in the Library" was excellent.  "The Impossible Planet" really screwed with me, at least the first half of it.  A lot of Doctor Who is campy, but that just means that the honestly scary ones that come out of nowhere really nail you.

Personally, I've found "Midnight" to be the scariest one.

I'm with Palazzo on that. Don't get me wrong, the others are scary and definately entertaining, but Midnight has a definate Lovecraftian feel to it. That we never really are given an explanation for what is going on probably helps that.