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Post by simple on Oct 14, 2021 15:20:14 GMT
Is that the swimming pool bum one? I remember a friend sending it to convince me Chuck was a good writer but I found it so edgelordy its too silly to take seriously. Yes, that one. I am absolutely not saying it's an example of good writing, but as a study in how to evoke a strong reaction in a reader using just words, I think it's pretty potent. In the same way that, say, Human Centipede isn't an immacuately shot or acted film, but still became a reference point for "WOW this is disgusting, have you SEEN IT YET?". I suppose, I just found it super cartoony and daft. Although I already thought he was a hack so probably wasn’t all that receptive to him showing off how gross he can be by being all “and then right? His guts like, totally came out of his bum”. Its like that South Park where Butters writes the Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs. |
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Post by FlexibleFeline on Oct 14, 2021 15:26:23 GMT
Has anyone in the history of reading ever actually been scared by a book? I get the question / scepticism. Even as a fan of the various obvious horror writers, I'm not sure I've been scared by them so much as absorbed, excited, disgusted etc. It feels pretty rare to be scared by a book. A couple of definite examples though - there were quite a few nuclear war books for kids in the 80s and they fucking terrified me. The only one I can think of right now is Children of the Dust but there was another I loved / hated that I can't remember. (I don't mean Where the Wind Blows, which is also ace). See also, movies such as Threads: terrified me more than any movie more explicitly branded as a horror movie. |
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Post by robthehermit on Oct 14, 2021 15:26:56 GMT
Yeah, like I said, I must be wired wrong, because I just don't get it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2021 15:27:40 GMT
Has anyone in the history of reading ever actually been scared by a book? Fear triggers are very subjective. For example, the sudden breakdown of reality's boundaries can scare the shit out of me. Like in The Ring, where she examines the video frame by frame, and in one still frame, a fly is somehow still beating its wings. Or I remember a short film where a woman looks out the window and sees a girl standing some distance away with only her back visible. She watches the girl for a while, but nothing happens, and then suddenly you realize that the wind is blowing and moving the grass and branches of trees, but the hair of the girl is completely unaffected by it.
Such more subtle scenes can really scare the bejeesus out of me, and they work really well in text form.
What short film is this? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2021 15:42:13 GMT
The Girl with the Wooden Hair
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Post by zagibu on Oct 14, 2021 15:43:05 GMT
Don't remember, sorry. Something I've seen in context of "X short horror movies from Y film festival you must see" posts on imgur, I think. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2021 15:46:04 GMT
Ah no worries, sounded quite intruiging.
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