Ok, I'm about to watch "Hannibal Rising"

[Wetzelbill]

I was going to do it during daylight hours, but I'm bored. I will say this, the book didn't really scare me or anything, so hopefully this won't be too bad. I don't actually scare that easy, more like I enjoy scaring myself on purpose because for some reason it's fun. But, tonight, I don't want to be freaked out because I want to have a decent sleep so I can wake up early.

But we'll see. I suppose my imagination will start running wild in the middle of the night tonight as I lie awake in bed.

At some point, I have become a wuss. Not sure when this happened.

[AlCzervik]

1. i've been kind of tempted to rent that but it looks uber bloody, i really have to

be in the mood for that, scary is always ok, blood and guts--not so much.

[Roon]

2. I hate horror flicks

I don't like to see people suffer...real or simulated.

[Wetzelbill]

3. I like suspense type scariness

Or at least I find that to be much more scary. Blood and guts, usually I find that to be gross. (or often even comical because it can be so fakey) I don't like the sight of blood at all, not from a fear standpoint, I just get weirded out by blood. Like I have to have my food cooked "Well Done" and I hate ketchup because it has that red bloodish look. I'm compulsive about that stuff.

The suspense stuff though, that is what gets me. I love it and hate it. :)

[AlCzervik]

5. I love suspenseful movies and ones with twists at the end. I love Asian horror

movies, some of them are really gross but many of them are suspenseful and just damn scary.

[Wetzelbill]

10. Asian film puts most of our stuff to shame

They are so good. I haven't watched many Asian horror films, mainly been watching stuff like "Curse Of The Golden Flower" for the last few years. Action oriented films.

[Flaxbee]

4. lol - I have become a wuss, too.

I want to see Hannibal Rising, though - didn't read the book, but read most of the others and of course have seen most of the Hannibal movies (Manhunter is still my favorite).

But I think wussdom is a creeping, sneaking condition. I used to be able to watch or read damn near anything - Stephen King at his peak, intense movies, etc. Now, no way, man. It's like I'm an impressionable child again and I'm afraid my psyche is going to be wounded.

[Wetzelbill]

9. I loved Manhunter!

The ending with Inna Gadda Da Vidda playing and Will Peterson is running in slow motion towards that window, was effing brilliant. That is a great film. Michael Mann directed it, right in his Miami Vice heyday.

I read all the books and have seen all the films except for this one. I'm excited to watch it.

The funny thing about wussdom, is that I am only freaked out by stuff that isn't real, like films and books. I read "Defending Gary" which was written by the Green River Killer's lawyer, and that totally creeped me out, now that is a real story, but I was more freaked out reading it than anything. Like I wasn't scared at all when I chased a guy away who was trying to steal my bike last year, at like 3 in the morning. Stuff in my life don't frighten me at all, but if I read about some killer doing something, then it makes me get weirded out, so go figure. :)

[Left Is Write]

6. I made the mistake of reading "It" at home all alone in the middle of the night.

Okay, technically I wasn't alone. My infant daughter was there.

Anyway, I had started off reading in daylight, but the book was so riveting, I couldn't put it down. I finished it at two or three in the morning, sufficiently freaked out!

[AlCzervik]

7. omg i did the same thing with Pet Cemetery, everyone was away for the weekend

and i ended up staying up till really late reading it and subsequently being scared shit less to leave my bedroom for the rest of the weekend. I had down to the basement to do a load of laundry, i swear to god i thought i was going to stroke out.

[Wetzelbill]

11. oh man, I know how that is

I swear, I actually like that feeling. It's so effed up that it's good. :)

[Wetzelbill]

8. I never finished Cujo as a child, the scary thing in the closet

was too effing much for me. :)

I have a funny story.

About in '95 I bought my mom "Intensity" by Dean Koontz for Christmas, and when she finished it, she gave it to me. Well, I could barely put it down, it was just suspenseful and scary. I was up all night reading it, just wired out of it from freaked out-ishness. I stopped to go grab some coffee at about 7am and my parents were up getting my little brothers ready for school. I told them I'd drive my brothers down to the end of the road to catch the bus so they could just go ahead and sleep in. (we live out in the country) Well, I went out to start our car and let it warm up, and as I walked out the door, I surveyed the scene around me warily.

See I was so into the book that I was almost feeling like a character, and in this one crucial scene she had to go out of a house and run to a car and start it up, while avoiding these vicious killer dogs. So I tip toe out of the house, slinking and lurking around like an idiot, when I catch myself, and think "Wow, Bill, quit being so stupid, it's just a book." So I stop for an instant, and admire the sun coming up, because it's very beautiful out in the country in the mornings.

Then behind me, one of our damn dogs started barking loudly at something out in the field, could've been a gopher or a tumbleweed for all I know. I swear I just jumped about 3 feet in the air, and my heart nearly exploded! I turned around and just screamed at our dog: "Don't fucking do that!" so loud that he got scared and took off running! I felt like I had just survived the apocalypse, winded, sweaty and out of breath as I walked inside to get my brothers.

My mom said she looked over at my dad in bed, after they heard me scream, and said: "Yeah, I know exactly what part of the book Bill is at right now." I was 21 at the time, and it took a few years of teasing before I ever lived that one down. :)

[hippiechick]

15. LMAO ~ I read 'The Stand' nonstop while I was pregnant ...

... wonder if that has anything to do with HippieKid being so wierd?


:shrug:

[S n o w b a l l]

12. I just watched Dairy of a Cannibal.....very weird

based on a true story. About love taken to the ultimate extreme. Thought provoking though.

[usaftmo]

13. Don't waste your time...

if that advice isn't too late.

[UTUSN]

14. Can you beat THIS for wussiness?

I forget which, possibly BUGLIOSI's MANSON book. I had been reading it on a dark winter's evening, and upon turning-in, after awhile, I got up and LITERALLY put one foot of the bed ON the closed book!!1