What do you find scary?

[monodiabloloco]

I have a six year old, so I'm not allowed to be afraid of anything... well at least not when she is around.
When she's not, however, I have.. unreasonable issues with heights. We just don't get on well. Also, I have been (in my younger days) a manly-manly-MMA fighter. I've faced down people that would make the fighters of today cough and suddenly remember that they left their ovens on. (I even won a few!). I have lived in a pretty rough ghetto area, been shot *at* (not hit.. w00t!), stabbed twice, been hit by speeding cars and lived to post here...and I am *still* really freaked out by spiders. I wouldn't call it fear per se... well my fiancé might, but I wouldn't... but they freak the hell right out of me. Also, I have a really weird fear of asphyxiation.
[EDIT]
In games/movies, the facehuggers hell the aliens too... and that motion sensor thing.. screw that thing! Sure it's nice to know where your enemies are but to me, the toll of doom is that weird ping/beep of that damned device.

 

[Erana]

(not necessarily in order)
1. Rape. One in four women get raped.
2. Deep murky water. Somehow I only realised that AFTER I was sitting there in the middle of a cloudy lake, about to try wakeboarding.
3. Pixelated things. {(DOOM+Heretic+Quake+Duke Nukem)+young, impressionable little girl}x main time spent with father = Nightmares, phobias, and a phycologically imbedded "Games are an important part of your life" mentality.
4. something graphic happening to my eyes/ losing my sight.
5. zombies
6. being impaled (through the intestines in particular)
7. The martyrdom of St. Bart.
8. Joints being hyperextended to the point of breaking
9. The death of those I love. (I hate to even put it here, the thought hurts so)
10.Regretting being an artist.

 

[The Reverend]

Well, I suppose I could be all manly and say i'm not afraid of anything. But thats not necessarily true. Sure, I don't think I have any phobia's, but I guess i have the same basic fears as everyone else. Being eaten alive. Thats a pretty scary prospect, no matter how you look at it. Well, being conscious and eaten alive. Knowing that that animal is eating YOU. Not just a random piece of meat, but you. A part of you. And you're powerless to do anything, feeling every piece of yourflesh rip, hearing the crunch of your bones.. Christ, that ain't something I'd wanna wish on anyone.
Being burned alive too. And everyone has a fear of the unknown. Depending on the situation, usually. "If you look long into the Abyss, the Abyss looks into you."
I can't say a game has ever "Scared" me though, sure, they make you jump and such, but I've never been scared to walk round that corner, face that beasty etc.
Remember kids, courage is not the absence of fear.

 

[Kontar]

I'd have to agree with many in this thread and say, in games, deep dark murky water scares me. Yet in reality I can go scuba diving, boating, water skiing, what have you all over dark deep waters and not be scared of it. I think it's because in games things tend to want to eat you in the deep murky waters, and you're in their domain. But in reality short of a rare shark attack, nothing really wants to eat you. Unless maybe you go real deep.

Also the prospect of something/someone chasing you that wants to kill and harm you, and you have no way to fight back. Like that part in Call of Cthulu. Or in portal when GLaDOS tries to dump you in a pit of fire. And after that once you escape and you find remnants of human activity everywhere but no one to be found, sent chills down my spine..

 

[Dudemeister]

War, poverty, Man's intolerance towards his fellow man...
and ghosts

 

[Necrohydra]

Being held/restrained against my will...with blindfolds. It's odd, the blindfold or the binding separately don't phase me too much, but combine both and I suddenly freak out.

Essentially, being buried alive would be the WORST possible way to do me in, in my opinion.

 

[Singing Gremlin]

8. Joints being hyperextended to the point of breaking

It's not too bad. Happened to me, can bend my arm slightly backward, so when I fell over and stretched my arm out to stop myself, the impact bent it too far the wrong way. I could go into detail because the break was quite dramatic but that probably wouldn't help. It sounds nastier than it is, though; I broke my arm by having someone land on it and that time was worse.

EDIT: assuming you mean it like that, as opposed to being pulled apart. Not sure how that would work though.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I'm sure someone will make fun of me for the last one, but...heights to a degree, clowns w/ makeup, and...mirrors in dark rooms. I'm serious. If I am so much as in a hallway with a mirror on the wall, and the lights are off at night, I am sprinting for the light switch.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

I'd just like to relate that I enjoy when this thread pops to the top of the forums, because it allows me to "read" the thread titles in sequence. Right now they say, "What do you find scary? Medical Conditions? Girl Gamers? The new X-Files Movie trailer?" (punctuation mine)

So carry on.

- J

 

[mitsoxfan]

Electronic Arts.

Heights, definitely.

Certain games (not necessarily good ones) like Doom 3, or the Silent Hill games. Playing those in the dark, late at night is pretty creepy.

Oh, and tiredinnuendo's avatar =)

 

[Kukakkau]

facehuggers undoubtably
deep water
1st tomb raider with randomly exploding eggs with fleshy mutants scared me shitless (was young)
and watching predator and haveing the red light from your projection clock point at your head
oh almost forgot zombie appocalypse

 

[tiredinnuendo]

I'm about due to change it. One more week, give or take.

- J

 

[Colodomoko]

I don't fear anything really. If I was locked in a room with 100 zombies... BRING IT(WOOT)!!!

 

[The Reverend]

I don't fear anything really. If I was locked in a room with 100 zombies... BRING IT(WOOT)!!!

You'd probably "Bring it" for a few seconds before being eaten, but go nuts.
Also, there's something not quite right about African Grey parrots. They look like they know.. something. And that, puts me at unease.

 

[Red Rum]

Spiders and The "Final Destination" Movies

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I am honestly surprised to find people mature enough to not insult other's fears. Also, the first FD movie still scares the crap out of me with its ramifications.

 

[Erana]

8. Joints being hyperextended to the point of breaking

It's not too bad. Happened to me, can bend my arm slightly backward, so when I fell over and stretched my arm out to stop myself, the impact bent it too far the wrong way. I could go into detail because the break was quite dramatic but that probably wouldn't help. It sounds nastier than it is, though; I broke my arm by having someone land on it and that time was worse.

EDIT: assuming you mean it like that, as opposed to being pulled apart. Not sure how that would work though.

I mean like... Well, go get a rotisserie chicken and bend the wing back until it snaps. That's what I mean.

 

[Benny Blanco]

1. Being horribly maimed/ impaired (losing one or both eyes, hearing, limbs etc.) Not such an unreasonable fear in my case due to constant martial arts training. This gives the double whammy of increasing your awareness of the risks and the fragility of the human body plus the knowledge that training accidents do happen...
2. Slow, painful, unavoidable death.
3. Unthinking group behaviour.
4. Vicious marine creatures of various descriptions (used to be shit-scared of shark attacks, especially in opaque water, saw a stonefish about 3 feet from my fin when I was snorkelling in the Philippines and that really shit me up too.
5. Going to prison and being gang-raped. I think that's there for most men- see the Boondocks episode "a Date With the Health Inspector".

On the other hand, some of the things films and other media (such as games) use to get a scare, like the "jumpy" moments are just incredibly cheap. Sure, I react, (e.g. every time the body falls out of the fishing boat in Jaws, however many times I see it) but that's just a reflex. Something that gets inside your head and makes you scare yourself will always be more scary than huge blatant monsters and cheap-shot surprise moments.

 

[Spinwhiz]

Kids freak me out. Like that girl from the Ring and movies like that. SOOOOOO creepy! And you know you are screwed if you hear children laughing/giggling and you are home alone. Call your loved ones and tell them goodbye.

 

[mitsoxfan]

Like that girl from the Ring and movies like that. SOOOOOO creepy!

Forgot about that, holy crap.

Spinwhiz ftw