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\"avatar\"I watch horror movies when I get a chance — which isn’t often, as Frood isn’t a big horror film fan.<\/p>\n

I have yet to see one that is really all that scary<\/i>, although, to be fair, there is a difference between horror and fear. The gore-fests of the Saw<\/i> and Hostel<\/i> franchises aren’t scary. They serve as a form of titillation; provoking, if anything, disgusted fascination rather than fear.<\/p>\n

I haven’t seen many things that have frightened me, probably because enough weird, scary stuff goes on in my head and it would be hard for a film or TV show to compete. Dead Calm<\/a> bothered me so much I couldn’t watch it, because I practically grew up on a boat and it hit some buttons. For similar reasons I found Jaws<\/a> pretty scary when I first saw it as a kid. (I watched Evil Dead<\/a> not long after that and thought it was hilarious, for the sake of comparison.)<\/p>\n

Estara<\/a> posted about Glove and reminded me that one of the few films that has scared me is Yellow Submarine<\/a>, in which the blue-painted forces of Greyface take on the chaotically-psychedelic army of creativity.<\/p>\n

I instinctively recognised a depiction of the Introduction of Negativism<\/a> when I saw one, and those things scared the crap out of me.<\/p>\n

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Of course, the Charley Says<\/i> public information films they used to show when I was young scared the bejeezus out of me as well. It was the cat, with his alien gibberish that the boy could nevertheless understand, and the way the boy himself spoke like a drone who had already fallen prey to his alien kitteh overlords and was no more than a mindless mouthpiece for their propaganda and fear-mongering.<\/p>\n

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Yeah. I was a strange child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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