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OCTOBER 21, 2009
What is scary?
Many things have raised this question for me recently… Last week I wrote of scary (or not so) movies. When Megan was writing of Where the Wild Things Are, I noted I didn’t want to see the film, though it looked technically very well done. Why? I found the book and the movie trailer, scary. This has been given no credibility, as I also announced I wanted to see the new film, Zombieland. But I hold one thing has nothing to do with the other. Since it is the season… in one of this month’s Library trade publications was a short write up on the differences between what men and women find scary. The male writer wrote that men find plotlines in which people they love are harmed and they are powerless, terrifying. The female writer suggested it was tales that wrote of threatening interpersonal relationships frightening. This sponsored me thinking…what have I read or seen that I found truly frightening? Nightmare frightening? Hauntingly frightening? There have been a few… (The book, not the movie.) So, what have you found truly frightening? Let us know or check out these books @ the Library! |
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