Things That Do and Don't Freak You Out In Horror Movies

[Get Some]

dont-gore, torture, ghosts, zombies etc
do-scenes in the dark for some reason..thats about it

[snapicus]

Things that do:

-Creepy preacher types (Poltergeist 2 and the diner scene in Children of the Corn when Isaac is staring in the window watching the slaughter, particularly)
-Funeral Homes
-Noises like scratching and running footsteps
-Anything where teeth are being removed
-Needles

Things that don't

-Cheap scare tactics
-Sharks unless a zombie happens to be fighting the shark but it is awesome

[Broken Skull]

Things that do
needles (my personal fear)
kids getting hurt
evil kids (pet sematary)
and evil kids (did I mention evil kids):shakes:

things that don't
deaths with a funny line afterwords
sex and death (cuz you know its gonna happen):bat:

[Luris Blear]

Does:

• Mob minds, if done right. Romero's NotLD. Not Stephen King's Cell.
• Distorted perceptions. FearDotCom had some big issues, but the characters' inabilities to know reality from hallucination is the best immediate example.
• Claustrophobia. Again, it has to be done correctly.

Does not:

• Kids in Peril.
  It's every bit as much of a cheap ploy as some murderer stalking teenagers. Double suck if the kid shows psychic abilities.
• Religious horror.
  What kind of pussy is Satan if he can only deal with one little girl at a time? Then he beat off and threw up? Sounds like some toothless country & western fan after a night spent drinking at Midge's Catfish & Rodeo.
• Yet Another Grudge.
  One time some chick with long hair died and got sad because death sucks so she's killing everyone else and now everyone else is dying but first they had to open up the newspaper to the funny pages and look at the crossword and if the word "BLOOD" was filled in the crossword puzzle with red lettering then Chick With Long Hair was totally going to climb out of the sports page and when the cops find the body it has a french tickler in one hand and a jumbo child's crayon in the other hand. It's as though there's one script with a lot of blank lines and someone else is filling it Mad-Libs style.
• Choose-Your-Own-Reality.
  Was that duck really a duck? Was it Satan's duck? Maybe it was the angel Raphael in disguise. Someone else once had a theory that the duck was really a martian from the year 11,432. The clues go in all directions. That movie was sooooooooo deep!
• Holy shit! They were dead the whole time!
  You can tell this is coming when the rest of the movie features the most boring ghosts and/or haunted house put to film in years.
• Not Really Supernatural
  Some guy in a tie hears about dead people, meets some creepy people, performs some suspenseful breaking & entering, crawls in a dark place, and ultimately finds out the killer was really just the night janitor in a mask. Sounds like something that bored me when I was 9.

[Dboyle]

Do-
being overpowered by a group of people
killers mocking their victims
helplessness
torture
child murder (not teen...but actual children)
teeth being knocked out/chipped out/ripped out
fingernails being torn off
suspense

Don't-
everything else
mainly cheap scares (her boyfriend hops out a closet and the music climaxes...but it's just him handing her a beer)

[Broken Skull]

Dont
People who get killed playing a video game who get killed in real life like they did in the video game.

[3/6]

freaks me out

Achilles tendons being fucked with
animals dying
Claustrophobia



anything after that..it dont freak me out

[BooBerry]

Does:
[list][*]Mob minds, if done right. Romero's NotLD. Not Stephen King's Cell. [*]

Cell hasn't even come out yet. And what was wrong with the mob mentality in the book anyway .

[Rust In Peace]

Do: Aliens (they freak me out, not like the ones from the movie Alien, but the grey guys that show no emotion and that torture you)

Don't: Everything else

[Yannis]

Well anything to do with children and animals getting killed. And ghosts kinda creep me out. And i don't care who laughs but god dam Kayako creeps me out.

[Strifer]

Do:

- Getting kill by a giant spider or any big insect
- Getting your eyes crushed by somebody else's thumbs (ouch)
- melt
- Getting crushed by pression in space or under water

Don't:

-Killer robots
-killer toys
-Killer dwarfs


:zombie:

[strtfghtr]

Do:
Broken fingers
Anything with teeth being pulled or broken
Large Marge from Pee-wee's big adventure

dont:
kids being killed (usually hope for it since most movies pussy out of it)
vampires
Booze labled "Viper" that makes you melt

[koolmike]

Some mannequins freak me out. That Twilight Zone ep when they come to life is wicked.

Evil Mannequin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxutLVmf0EE

[koolmike]

[Titanosaurus]

Do's:
Eyes or faces in the night (Suspiria, Fright Night, Salem's Lot, etc.) :shakes:
The killing of animals (Venomous, Cannibal Holocaust, I Am Legend, etc.)
People being burnt alive, especially groups of people.
Deformed people, particularly radiation victims.

Don'ts:
Gore. Usually never bothers me, especially head-related deaths. :bigthumbup:
Torture.
Rape.
Monsters.
Ghosts.
Much more.

[koolmike]

Do's:
People being burnt alive, especially groups of people.
Deformed people, particularly radiation victims.

Good ones.

[HEKTIK15]

Kids and animals getting killed.

[JeNnYFuR]

Things that freak me out:

I agree with The Spine Splitter: fingernails getting ripped out...makes me cringe just thinking about it. Also, seeing someone getting sliced in certain places, like in Hostel, when the dude's Achilles tendon is sliced. It makes my stomach turn.

Also, due to a phobia, I can't do ventriloquist dummies. Cannot do it. I cry. Wax figures and some mannequins freak me out too, like in The Hills Have Eyes. The mannequins in the A-bomb test town freak me out more than the inbred monsters.

Great suspense is also good for a quick scare. I love it when you KNOW the killer/monster/ghost/whatever is going to pop out...you just know it, but then it doesn't happen right away. The intensity grows and, even though you know it will happen, it still scares the shit out of you when it finally does. I love that.

I can handle just about everything else.

[FreddyFreakChica17]

Does:
* Innocents being killed (murder of children and animals)
* Finger/toe nails being ripped out, or the fingers and toes being crushed or broken
* Teeth being forcibly removed.
* Needles in the eyes (Audition really got me there)
* It being directed by Uwe Boll

Doesn't:
* Gore (The more the better)
* Torture
* ghosts with grudges
* Killer technology
* Most things...

[Luris Blear]

Cell hasn't even come out yet. And what was wrong with the mob mentality in the book anyway .

As you kind of stated, there has been a book released of it. And Eli Roth does suck a little, assuming he is still attached. Cell itself just felt like it kept doubling back on whatever story it was trying to tell.

Also, due to a phobia, I can't do ventriloquist dummies. Cannot do it. I cry. Wax figures and some mannequins freak me out too, like in The Hills Have Eyes. The mannequins in the A-bomb test town freak me out more than the inbred monsters.

TRILOQUIST!