User:Raidra



Hello! My name is Kara. I am a Caucasian female, a proud American, and a strict Pentecostal Christian. I honestly don't know how much time I'll be spending here (I have a mild case of post-traumatic stress disorder, so I can only take so much horror at a time), but I'm glad that I've been made to feel welcome here. I believe that well-written horror frightens yet intrigues. You feel afraid, but then you come back for more. Some things frighten me that don't frighten others, but then again some things frighten others that don't frighten me. I also think there are times whether or not something is scary depends on the circumstances. My friend once showed me some scars on his shoulder. They were really very small, and most people would think nothing of them, but since it was my beloved friend, and I knew the story behind them, they might as well have been huge, gaping, festering, open wounds. The two genres of horror I really respect are psychological horror and body horror. I don't like the splatterfilm type of horror, especially when it's just gore for gore's sake. I also think the scariest things happen in real life. I once saw a documentary about the portrayal of the Third Reich and the Holocaust in Hollywood film, and I literally had trouble sleeping for a whole week. The part in Schlinder's List (I think that was the film) with the little boy making a "cut the throat" motion to someone simply for being Jewish is more effective and a lot scarier than the cheap "scares" in a lot of horror films today.

My favorite pages

 * http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Gassed
 * http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Whose_Line_is_It_Anyway
 * http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_War_Theory
 * http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Fear_of_Victory
 * http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Pawn_Shop_Puzzle
 * http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Amazing_World_of_Gumball_-_%22The_Virus%22
 * http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Paralytic
 * http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Hyper_Cola

My Stories
I write to create atmospheric stories and flex my creative muscles, not to induce screaming nightmares or one-up anybody.
 * Binding Symbol
 * Dawn's Notebooks
 * Induced Amnesia
 * Just Tell Yourself
 * Kumiho
 * Most Sinister Weapon
 * Periodic Nyctophobia
 * The Binding Mask
 * The Cause of the Crash
 * The Creature in the Meteorite
 * The Dagger and the Cords
 * The Horrors
 * The Houseguest
 * The Lichen Beast
 * The Man Called Pathos
 * The Melon Head Illustration
 * The Needle
 * The Watch on the Arm
 * What Was Sacrificed

In Memoriam
 * "Arms"- Based on true accounts, this sequel to "Post-Attack" had the addict deciding to get clean after he suffered a fit of cocaine-induced psychosis and scratched up his own arms.
 * "Broken Contract"- This sequel to "The Geisha" had the hired killer turning on her employer and putting him in a deathtrap. It currently forms the second part of "The Dagger and the Cords"
 * "Most Horrifying Halloween Figure"- This humorous story featured a young woman encountering the most horrifying of Halloween figures, the high school age Trick-or-Treater with a "costume" consisting of a sports jersey and pillowcase.
 * "Post-Attack"- Based on true accounts, this story had a drug addict request his drug pipe right after suffering a cocaine-induced heart attack.
 * "Tanks for the Exhilaration"- This story featured an arrogant football player who became intoxicated after someone replaced the medic's oxygen tank with a nitrous oxide (laughing gas) tank.
 * "The Banshee of Connacht"- This humorous story had a banshee who screamed not because of a death, but because she peed herself in a cold, windy peat bog.
 * "The Geisha"- This story featured a man being murdered by a hired killer disguised as a geisha. It currently forms the first part of "The Dagger and the Cords"
 * "Trouble on the Mound"- This story featured someone suffering a nightmare about a favorite baseball pitcher collapsing during a game.

Random Scary Movie Thoughts
Here are some of my random thoughts on horror films, thrillers, and scary movies in general. I plan to add to it from time to time, which is why I didn't post this as a blog (since blogs are closed if they go without activity for a certain length of time). Please do not add to this section or edit it (except to correct any typos).

March 22, 2014
 * The biggest scares come from real life. It's a terrible thing to call a friend and fear that he/she might not answer because he/she might not be alive.
 * With all the horror movies that came out that summer (2005), is it wrong that the creepiest preview was the one for Capote? "I've decided on a title for my book - In Cold Blood."
 * A story that mixes real-life and fantasy horror will be more effective than one that employs just fantasy horror.
 * When I first saw the preview for Transcendence, I literally thought for a moment that they had made another Lawnmower Man movie.

March 24, 2014
 * I’m already tired of filmmakers who have movies that are particularly cruel, misogynist, and/or perverse and try to defend it by saying they’re fighting against political correctness. That’s a load. You can make a non-P.C. film without reveling in sexual assault and excessively graphic torture. It’s true that the excessive political correctness we see today is utterly ridiculous, but so is making a sick movie and then expecting people to pat you on the back and give you praise, like you’re really taking a stand for something. It’s just going from one extreme to the other.
 * “Your house frightens me, Mrs. Lutz.” [The Amityville Horror (2005 remake)] Oh, well, since the house frightens you, it’s perfectly okay that you abandoned us when we needed your help, then! No, it’s perfectly fine that you peeled out on us! It’s not like our lives, possibly our very souls, are in terrible danger or anything!

March 28, 2014
 * Sometimes the greatest scares are created not by what the audience sees or hears but by what the audience imagines.
 * The J-horror (Japanese horror) film Audition starts out with an air of sadness, becomes atmospheric and mysterious with a gradual increasing of dread, and then at the end becomes truly disturbing and horrifying.
 * Our new toaster oven is like the movie Audition. Nothing much seems to happen at first, but then near the end things start happening suddenly and intensely. (Seriously, though, that is a disturbing film)

March 29, 2014
 * If you're watching a scary movie with someone, and he or she tells you not to watch an upcoming scene, but you do anyway and see something especially disgusting or disturbing, then for Pete's sake, don't blame the other person! Get angry at yourself because you're the one who ignored a warning someone delivered for your own good!

April 1, 2014
 * I don't know how hard it is to make a horror movie that's also an effective comedy, but it must be easy to make a horror movie that's so bad it's funny, because there are a lot of them.

April 15, 2014
 * Some of the most chilling films I've seen have been documentaries. I don't mean docu-dramas, films claimed to be "Based on a True Story", films that are merely the untrue and paranoid ravings of conspiracy theorists, or other pseudo-documentaries; I mean actual documentaries.

May 8, 2014
 * Every horror movie has someone eating it, but whether the victims are guilty, semi-innocent, innocent, or some combination depends on the "message" the filmmaker is trying to send.
 * I don't like movies which end with "...and he/she was so traumatized that he/she wound up institutionalized!" but I also don't like movies in which someone doesn't seem to be affected at all by a horrific ordeal. Those two extremes aren't the only options, people! Jeez!

May 11, 2014
 * Reading the late Roger Ebert review bad films is a thing of beauty.