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Originally Posted by Shemonsterdevil
What do you find to make a better horror story, or just scary/ creepier? Realistic or unrealistic plots? I tend to think that the best horror films stick with you a bit, and maybe instill a little paranoia post viewing. I ask because usually I have issues with totally unrealistic characters. To me it is more logical to be fearful of bad things that can actually happen. Granted... fear isn't totally logical. Just wondering if I am a creeper and a freak.
I would say more realistic films include TCM, Psycho, Saw1-17, Human Centipede, 28 Days/Weeks later. A guy could really cut you up with chainsaws/ have mommy issues/ be all cancery and sadistic/ a psycho fan would kidnap people and well... all that/ some sort of freak virus could make zombies.
Unrealistic (to clarify the distinction I am trying to make... so far as I know)
Dolls can't be possessed and rage kill, burn victims cant kill me in my dreams, darth maul isn't going to pop up out of the further any time soon either. But you bet your ass I still check my car for Chucky with a plastic bag waiting to smother me as I drive home. Obviously I have a good fighting chance that this will never happen.. because science says so... But still gets me every time.
I don't want to really split hairs with ghosts or aliens... I don't really have an opinion on the reality of either... but I also don't judge things I know nothing about.
Just wondering if anyone else is kind of backwards like that.
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Realistic or unrealistic shouldn't matter whatsoever! Newt and Ripley say it best: "My mommy told me that monsters weren't real, not real ones, but they are." "Yes, they are, aren't they?" "Why do parents tell us that?" "Most of the time it's true."
You get scared by the monsters that you haven't met yet, be they real or not. If it's a scary story, your audience won't be able to say yay or nay. You want them to think that your monster could be real, it's just waiting for the right time to strike! =) Oh, and by monster, I mean anything. I cite wilderness to be monstrous, so the setting can be your monster as much as any ghosty or gobbly. Think Silent Hill. You walk down the street, but it's not a street. It's a dark corridor leading you to destruction! Have fun, hon! =D