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bannie
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:37 pm Post subject: Holy Lord dont buy this book |
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Haunted by Chuck Palhn...hunik? by the guy who wrote Fight Club.
I bought it while in Newbury Comics today. The premise is very intersting: A bunch of fledgling writers/poets/screenwriters abandon their lives for three months while they live in a "writers community". It turns out to be nothing that they expected and things start to go wrong
The main story is periodically interrupted by the stories the writers come up with.
Im only three stories into it, but this is why I recommending not buying it: The first story is the most disturbing thing I have ever read and has me completely creeped out. And this isnt a good thing. This is coming from a die hard horror fan. A kid that laughed at Evil dead, thought SAW was tame.
In short the story was just plain wrong and I dont want to go into it for the mental pictures that will come back.
I need a blanky :oops: |
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Waray
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:24 am Post subject: Re: Holy Lord dont buy this book |
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bannie wrote: thought SAW was tame.
Saw was tame.
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bannie
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:08 am Post subject: |
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Come to think of it, it was
Hostel was good though. There was alot less shown in it than what people led to believe |
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JuntaJoe
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:16 am Post subject: |
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Horror from gore only works for so long. Any surgeon can hack up a person without blinking after a few years. Soldiers begin to laugh at corpses after they've seen enough of them.
No, good horror comes from the unseen. It comes from suggestion that your mind fills in the blanks.
Look at the best horror of all time and note the similarities.
Alfred Hitchcock, the Omen Series, the Michael Myers character.
The horror resided offscreen. It's why Stephen King is so successful in his books. He doesn't bring the horror to your face. He keeps it hiding in the weeds just out of your view until you let your guard down. Then he strikes so fast that you don't fully see the menace and then it is gone again and you are alone with your fears. He also pulls you out of your cocoon by making "safe" things the source of the horror. Our safety paradigms rely on certain things to remain innocuous because they always have in the past.
Once you've seen one chainsaw murder then you've seen them all.
To scare me then you have to tap the dark recesses of my mind. |
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NibbyCat
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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Stephen King had a great bit about the difference between terror, horror and gross-out in his book Danse Macabre. Terror is more subtle, horror is direct, and the gross-out is in your face.
Roughly, terror is your buddy has suddenly gone missing. Horror is opening a door and seeing your buddy looking very unalive. Gross-out is an alien coming out of your buddy's chest. |
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JuntaJoe
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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Excellent way to define what I was saying, Nibby.
I'm certainly a fan of terror. |
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Dochartaigh
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| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:54 am Post subject: |
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| i am a diehard horror fan as well. read alot of stephen king, dean koontz(he is better than stephen king in my opinion), read the omen series when i was in elementary school, love alfred hitchock( hated the remake of psycho). if you love stephen king though u should read dean koontz. my wife got me hooked on him. also one of the best psychological thrillers of alltime (in movie form) is identity. way awesome movie. cant really go into detail but it is about a bunch of people end up in a rundown gas station/cafe (i believe or maybe it is a really small ghost town not sure dang i hate my memory sometimes) but anyways, they start dying off and have to figure out who the killer is. the ending is completely awesome and surprised the hell outta me. |
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CooJoe
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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| I just started on Haunted. Should I be worried that St. Gut-free's story didn't send me reeling? |
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bannie
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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Looking back on it, Im not totally sure why I reacted the way I did
But if you were not at least slightly uncomfortable while reading it, yes, I would be worried |
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CooJoe
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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bannie wrote: Looking back on it, Im not totally sure why I reacted the way I did
But if you were not at least slightly uncomfortable while reading it, yes, I would be worried
Define slightly uncomfortable. |
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bannie
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, how to say this without giving too much away...
if you werent ever-so-slightly grossed out by the "pearl diving" scene at least,then you scare me |
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CooJoe
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I was a little bit, but I've read and written far worse things.
The scene itself didn't really bother me as much as the aftermath. |
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Dochartaigh
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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| well now i definetely have to go and find this books cuz i want to see if those scenes affect me. |
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