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Originally posted by The Trickster:
To me, there is nothing better than a good horror film. Unfortunately, as you guys have mentioned, there are not all that many of them. I am totally sick of teenybopper horror (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream etc.) and sequel slasher horror (Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street etc.), but when an original and creepy horror film comes out, I'm first in line.
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Rent Frailty. You just might not realize the horror until it's too late. Very good flick.
Most horror flicks just suck - the vast majority, in fact. But, when horror is done well, it's amazing. ST Coleridge's essay regarding the "willing suspension of disbelief" was directed more at the gothic genre than anything else, though it has achieved universal usage. The application of this notion to horror/gothic is especially poignant because in order to scare someone you have to get them to "buy into" things that are (usually) FANTASTICAL, i.e. things we all know cannot occur. Asking someone to watch a fantastical drama is one thing - but with horror, the genre does not work if you do not *believe* the underlying assumptions, at least a little bit. So, making the impossible seem plausible is a hurdle so many horror movies cannot jump over.
So, it's quite hard. Because of this I found my Ravenloft campaign the most challenging to run.