DANI'S TOP TEN SCARY THINGS FROM SCARY MOVIES

Today a friend on mine, Fiona, who is a part of an absolutely Excellent movie podcast which I cannot recommend enough (Remote Viewing) did some research on me for their halloween horror themed episode.

It got me a thinkin' about scary movies and then this happend:

DANI'S TOP TEN SCARY THINGS ABOUT SCRAY MOVIES

1. Small children. Little girls, little boys, laughing, crying, talking, not talking... if it's a human being and it’s still in the early stages of its life it's terrifying.

2. Strings. Specifically this kind (HINT: Does not link to picture of kitten with ball of)

3. Odd people. You know the kind. At first glance they may look perfectly normal but on closer inspection (usually from behind a cushion if you're me) you will notice that maybe their fingers are slightly elongated and narrow, or their grin too fixed, or their eyes are too stare-y.

4. Fingers*. I know I mentioned it above but fingers are just fucking creepy. Humour me and make your own fingers crawl across the desk you’re at now or even better, run them up your arm. See? They even sound scary. And. THEY LOOK LIKE SPIDERS!!!! SPIDERS STUCK ON YOUR HANDS!!!!!! AND YOU CAN’T GET THEM OFF!!!!!!!

5. See above but with fingernails. And double.

6. Nothing. To be more specific, nothing is something with a perfectly natural explanation which makes it nothing. Except the perfectly natural explanation for the nothing has a perfectly natural explanation as to why the first perfectly natural explanation is not actually a perfectly natural explanation which turns the nothing into something. That all actually makes sense. You may need to draw a diagram. Or just watch Paranormal Activity.

7. Mirrors. And reflections of any kind. This applies to real life as well as in movies.

8. Whistling. As seen probably before anywhere else, here. But more recently here, here, and of course here (actually I can’t tell if those last two are the same or not. though I'm sure the above mentioned Fiona will know).

9. Things in the Background. Usually these things do a really fast walk past in the background, almost always across a hallway or narrow alley of some kind and sometimes are seen in Reflections. Normally they appear as nothing more than a shadow or occasionally a small child (see 1). Optional: Entire orchestra hitting a note to emphasise the scare.

10. This face when it’s so subtly placed that by the time you work out why you’re suddenly paralysed with fear it’s gone. (But gone where?)


Okaaaay! Now I have scared myself silly googling and YouTubing daemon faces (scarier then regular old demon faces apparently) I am going to watch Pixar movies and eat cheese and drink pepsi max until my head explodes from happy then I'm going to go to sleep with all the lights on.

Pre-emptive rebuttal (just a ‘Buttal’ then?):
REGARDING CLOWNS: I admit a few years ago I would have added clowns to this list and while I agree that there are still some pretty scary individual clowns out there frankly the Insane Clown Posse has made clowns as a Thing ridiculous again. It's impossible not to look at them and either laugh and/or feel sorry for them which, traditionally was the reaction sought after back in the day. So good on the ICP for upholding the time-honoured clowning ethos!

*The one exception to number 4's Fingers rule is Thing from The Addams Family. But not his girlfriend, Lady Fingers was the scariest thing on that show.

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