Yeah I get like that if I watch a bunch of scary movies back to back or one really extra creepy scary one. I usually need to sleep with the lights on and go to sleep when I'm so sleepy that I fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. If not, I will keep seeing the scenes in my mind and thinking scary thoughts.
I get more freaked out reading a scary story than I do watching a scary movie. After reading
Gerald's Game by Stephen King I had to sleep with my light on for a couple of weeks.
So far as being freaked out by movies goes, I have some "chick flicks" and some Disney / Pixar favorites that I'll often watch after watching something spooky to help me relax.
That wasn't too scarey was it now ?
Did you have a nice night and sweet dreams ? Next time call your mom, and have a cup of warm milk and honey and a few cookies
morning all!! as I thought I had nightmares and the worst kind!! the one where you're stuck and you know you're dreaming and you can't wake up I did wake up checked the time it was only 4 so I spent the rest of the night wide awake!! therefore I am now very grouchy and need coffee
I'd give them a miss if I were you love. I cant watch horror films or really violent ones. I get flashbacks of scary stuff and my soul's bruised for weeks when I see cruelty.
Crazy eh!
I quite enjoy gothic horror, if it's intelligently done, and has some ambivalence or redemption in it. I saw the Ring, and thought it has some nice ideas, but didn't really work. The Exorcist I spent most of the time just feeling sorry for the possessed girl. I thoroughly enjoyed "the others".
Amityville, Nightmare on Elm Street, and most of Stephen King horror leaves me cold, as do most shockers, slashers and bloodfest - I just don't see the point. I did like Carrie though. Another sad film.
I've heard it said that if anyone doesn't believe in ghosts, place a chair in an open doorway at night, with the room behind you dark, and the room in front of you lit. Try to read a book. Within an hour, you'll be firmly convinced they do exist!
As an antidote, try a film with a positive message. Or read Psalm 23...
Not crazy at all! It's easier for me to watch things like Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th and even some spooky movies where the ghosts mostly move things around or throw things about. Those movies are scary and some may leave me a bit spooked, but the really really scary ones that bother me the most are movies more based on reality! Like serial killer type movies and CSI type movies & shows where serial killers and sick people do some crazy sick torturous stuff to people, those kinds of movies bruise my soul. That's worse than Jason or Freddie or Chucky who you know are ficticious characters and they just kill someone and get it over with, they don't turture people and do sick stuff. Those kinds of movies I don't like and will not watch. Like Saaw for instance, never have and don't plan on watching any of them. That's sick stuff. I like scary movies with ficticious monsters and made up creatures.
When I was at 6th form college, a theatre group put on a night of Gothic Horror - based on Edgar Allen Poe. One of my teachers, Mr Lowe, age 64, saw us at the interval, and said "You chaps are far too young to watch this". I replied, "Mr Lowe, you're too young to watch this". Seriously scary stuff, but not in a different way to many horror films nowadays. I love a bit of Gothic Horror - like the Blink or Library, Doctor Who episodes!
Im the same papermoon I can deal with horrors or thrillers as long as I know they're not real!! they freak me out like they did last night but things like Saw or Hostel make me physically sick!! not even the films themselves (the gore will haunt me) just the idea that someone sat down with those ideas in their heads and put pen to paper to make money :O
kinda spooks me more than the actual films
I remember watching The Exorcist III at the cinema with my mates and the moofie is pretty lame actually, but there is one scene when the guy in the hospital? follows the other person across the hall, with the music and unexpectedness of it all, me and all my friends litterally jumped out our seats.
Scary moofies Ive seen in my life, the original Exorcist, Omen and Ring (original). Turn off all the lights and go for it!
LOL but it is normal after seeing so many films
I will go away soon...unless your building is indeed haunted LOL Sorry bad joke
That's a good point! Who can actually sit and think up that stuff to write about it and make into a movie?!
I know right!! it's not just the films alone!! any good fiction that has been written makes me wonder how they have these things in their heads!! and if because they do is there something not all right with them
coming from someone who likes to read books by Stephen King maybe there is something not all right with me :P lol
yes a test of what? of how much I can handle before I cry like a baby huddled in the corner cause I gotta tell ya I was tempted
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