Is it a particular movie? chapter in a book? part of town you refuse to pass through? or is it something broader like a certain type of home, weather, or person?
Before it was easy to guage what freaked people out by what the most popular scary movie or book was at the time (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Blob, The Exorcist, Serpent & the Rainbow, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shining, Carrie, Hellraiser etc.)
But these days scary movies...well they suck. The Japanese still churn out a good scary movie but even those don't pack the punch of horror films of yesteryear. Either scary things today try so hard they miss the point and simply become long winded atmospheric peices or don't try hard enough so that they don't make the under 16 set pee their beds.
I loved watching old 70's horror flicks when I was a kid...scared the ever loving hell out of me in ways that still do if I think on them long enough. I'm sure each of us have something similar...so please share if you can...I'm curious how many of us will have similar fears.
For me it was some horror film about a guy who turns off a main highway and into a foggy road that leads into a town stuck in perpetual twilight. That "blue" light where the sun is down but it's not night yet. The guy gets stuck there and eventually befriends a pretty young gal who tells him how the town has survived through wonderful "boxes" that give them food and clothes.
That pretty much did it for me cause it let to weeks of wondering how many odd lil town existed off highways that used the dead for food and clothing. I'd freak out everytime parents or family members would take an exit I didn't recognize or say we were going to a town I didn't know. I always looked at people wondering if they well...ate people.
I think deep down I still wonder that. It does not scare me as it use too but it does make me uneasy.
