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Lifetime,
No, I did not see "What Lies Beneath", but I still mean what I said about the writing in the mirror not doing anything for me because I find it totally unbelievable.
Don't expect necessarily for any one thing to work for everybody -- it obviously doesn't, as people have very different reactions to the same thing. For instance, I thought "The Sixth Sense" to be interesting, but in no means scary. Nice twist on the ending.
I think in terms of books or movies, it also helps to have some sort of sympathy or connection with the main character. For me, the Blair Witch Project was a tremendous joke, and by the end, I was rather hoping that the withch would off that annoying female character if her cohorts didn't do it first. Likewise for other horror movies and stories -- if I don't much care for the main character, I end up rooting for the monster instead, which rather tones down any suspense that may have been intended.
[This message has been edited by AliCat (edited 11-02-2001).]
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