Comments on: Based On A True Story: The Amityville Horror

By: sophistre

sophistre — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:18:44 +0000

Oops. Forgot to include this: http://sophistre.tumblr.com/post/6466263083/amnesia-the-dark-descent

Sometimes I’m nerdy and write about stuff I play. Not well, or anything. But it’s a decent overview of the game, at least.

By: sophistre

sophistre — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:16:05 +0000

Hauntings scare me *because* all of those empty blanks that you have to fill in for yourself. Things almost always stop being scary almost as soon as you see the bad guy. Unknown quantities are always scarier. There are exceptions to that, but they’re just so few and far between, for me. I’m always scared of threats I cannot physically see.

Ghostly antagonists are already dead, too…so what are you gonna do about them? How do you defend yourself? And where do you go to get away, when your home is the seat of it all?

I don’t know if you’re a video game person, but if those things creep you out, and you’re looking for a really frightening video game to play…go and check out Amnesia. It might be my current favorite horror title (and I’ve played almost all of them)…most ‘horror’ titles these days don’t scare me at all, but Amnesia scared the piss out of me. (Fatal Frame is a great ghosty game, too, though it’s old.)

Love these updates, too. It’s fun to see CS active again.

By: Bryan White

Bryan White — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:23:27 +0000

I actually prefer The Entity to Amityville. It’s a MUCH nastier movie. I think I saw the two for the first time around the same time. My all time favorite haunted house flick, though, is The Sentinel. If you haven’t seen it, you HAVE to.

By: Kiarna

Kiarna — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:27:39 +0000

I think The Entity did for me as a kiddo what Amityville did for you. Not sure how I came to be watching that thing anyway…

By: MALACHE

MALACHE — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 04:50:28 +0000

“I’m really not sure why haunted house flicks scare me like they do but horror movie-induced chills are a rare commodity in these jaded times so I take what I can get.”

I think that the reason for haunted house flicks being more scary is that in some cases they seem more possible, than say a boogey man with razors for fingers. Even moreso are the home invasion horror movies or movies like Last House on the left. That shit could happen man!! I know that during watching watching those that we all find ourselves timidly looking out the window hoping that no one will be staring back in at us.