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qollocust
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When I think of horror in any medium, I think more about psychological thrillers and creepy mysteries than any sort of monsters/ghosts/vampires (although ghosts do give me chills). The whole idea of things messing with your mind and not really being sure what is real is the most scary thing to me. Supernatural stuff jumping out to scare you I find laughable (which is why I usually find live action horror hilariously stupid).
Uzumaki is probably my favorite entry in the horror genre as it legitimately freaked me out. The setting was so isolating it made me feel claustrophobic and the fact thatspoiler[ there seemed to be no escape from the final fate of all the characters ]really disturbed me. |
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aizensama666
 Posts: 22 Location: Scranton(What?)The Electric City |
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Honestly, the only anime that has legitimately frightened me was End of Evangelion. The whole movie is just psychological horror like Pink Floyd: The Wall. It really beats you down even if you haven't seen the series. Otherwise, everything else is just weird or creepy. Higurashi was almost scary but the "cutesy" parts were just too overbearing.
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gartholamundi
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for me the first 2 volumes of Dragon Head, which Erin brought up, were amazingly good horror (though could be classified as "psychological thriller" from a certain perspective). the first time i plowed through them i was both sweating and creeped out by the end.
volume three took the story in a vastly different direction, so i ended up being really disappointed and put it down for about 2 years. recently i went back and re-examined it. the remaining volumes (so far; i've read through vol. 9 and am waiting for the last one to ship) are more apocalyptic survival, and delve into psychology and philosophy so the whole series has been really enjoyable and thought provoking in the end. of course ... with all the psychology and potential madness, anything could be revealed in that last volume. i have no idea what might happen next or what the "big reveal" will ultimately be. |
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kyokun703
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Lol, someone's been riding the Haunted Mansion ride a little bit too much...
While Ghost Hunt was not scary, per se, it was most definitely more than a little creepy, especially The Bloodstained Labyrinth (I think it was that one). I remember sitting there and thinking, this is actually pretty decent for a horror anime. But only that arc; the rest weren't all that creepy. I was planning on rewatching that arc of Ghost Hunt for Halloween this year. Also second, or third, or whatever for Samurai Horror Tales: Ghost Cat. That's one in my standard Halloween watching pile. Plus it's the prequel to Mononoke, my most wanted license ever, so it's totally awesome. |
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CareyGrant
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Speaking of Video Games... Silent Hill 2. The scariest game ever -I had to play that during the day with people in the house; you couldn't play it at night by yourself.
Anime? Not *intentionally* scary. Manga? Yeah. |
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
 Posts: 7912 Location: Anime News Network Technodrome |
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Huh, I didn't realize the reference would be quite so obscure to people. |
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unready
 Posts: 399 Location: Illinois, USA |
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It's not Japanese animation, but when I was a small child, I loved Jonny Quest. I was very scared by the episode "The Invisible Monster." A scientist working with high-energy power generation or something puts too much energy in one spot and it turns into an unstoppable (invisible) monster that kills everyone on the island where it was created. Even at the end when it became visible because they paint-balled it, I was still scared (every time I watched it). When it was visible, it was pretty simple: a giant, upright blob with one eye and a mouth, but it was still scary. Invisibility and unstoppability were effective on me. None of the other villains ever scared me.
I'll second Alien, though. I was scared the first time I saw that as a teenager. The alien moved fast; you could never tell where it was; and it was unstoppable. The sequels are kind of like comedies by comparison. Or maybe I was just less jaded then. I was in college when I read Lovecraft. I think the thing that's scary about his stories isn't that his monsters (elder gods or whatever) are powerful. It's that they drive their victims insane. There were some cheesy (un-scary, imo) movies made back in the 1980s (Re-animator et al.). I also think that vampires could be scary. They just need to be made scary. The BBC series Ultraviolet (not the trashy Mila Jovovich film) is available on Hulu. I think it's pretty good. Unfortunately there's too much emphasis on making vampires sexy now. Plus if anyone made them really evil, there'd probably be a backlash of angry goths claiming prejudicial cultural stereotyping. I read an epidemiological study about a year ago that was based on zombies. Basically the researchers took standard computer models and (for fun, obviously) applied them to zombie-ism as it's portrayed in film (multiple variations). Their conclusion is that virtually nothing works (extermination, quarantine, etc.). In every model but one the world becomes 100% zombies. The only thing that works at all is inoculation (assuming an inoculant exists), but even then the world ends up being mostly zombies. I think the closest thing I've seen to that is the first remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the one with Donald Sutherland and Veronica Cartwright, which ends with Veronica Cartwright thinking she and Donald Sutherland managed to survive the invasion, but she's wrong.... |
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CareyGrant
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I'm glad you mentioned the X-Files. I remember more than one non-canon episode that really scared the bejeezus out of me when I was in high school. One in particular dealt with an episode in the forest where people were being stalked and murdered/eaten by mutated humans with Predator-like camouflage and spooky, glowing red eyes; scared me out of my wits.
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Tanteikingdomkey
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I will join on the higurashi is best horror anime bandwagon
also "Um, the "Bloody Labyrinth" arc of Ghost Hunt. I frequently have dreams where I am wandering through a big rambling house like that, so the images of the anime easily slipped into my dreams. It didn't scare me right away, it scared me the night after." I have to agree with this. that arc did legitimately scared me |
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Takeyo
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Oh, man! I totally forgot about that part of the ride/attraction! I knew it sounder familiar. |
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Tanteikingdomkey
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ya I remembered it after I saw it |
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Relmstein1
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Wow, I'm surprised nobody mentioned Kakurenbo. The battery tower at the end just freaked me out.
Also I found Gantz to be very creepy at times. It didn't fall into the trap of trying to explain everything and kept things very surreal. |
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gartholamundi
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I thought Erin did mention that one? But I don't think anyone went into much detail. |
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neocloud9
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Oh God, THIS. *shudders* As a bonus, loved all the Haunted Mansion motifs in this episode. 
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Thunderbird-
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If someone doesn't give me the full name of "Neiaru-kun/Neiaru-tan" whatever the heck it's called I'm going to go insane!
Oh and I think I prefer "Creepy" horror anime to ones that are actually scary. |
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