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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8994934" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Two of the creepiest hours of TV I've ever watched were buffy episodes. Hush - probably the most creepy horror I've watched, is a wonderful episode of it. The other one (I don't recall the name) is the one were Buffy meets the Primal Force.A lot of horror isn't scary, per se. Much of it is satirical... Werewolves of London, Lifeforce, and the remake of The Blob are all in the "campy horror" along with the Evil Dead Trilogy. And much of it is creepy rather than proper fear inducing - The Blob, Blair Witch Project, Pitch Black. Some only work when one sympathizes with the point of view protagonists... one of the reasons Xander was a major character in Buffy. Oh, and monster smackdown was the guiding motif of Hammer Films, as well as a couple other film studios doing the campy horror of the 50's and 60's. And exactly the kind of films Scooby Doo was a sendup of. Most of Hammer's films ended with the bad guys losting... largely due to the Hayes Code. Good horror as inducing fear in the audience was very much a thing in the 70's, but only a few trying in the 60's. (Alfred Hitchcock.) And let us not forget 1938, the terror inspired by Orson Welles' production of HG Wells' War of the Worlds as a radiodrama... terrified a good chunk of the US... but most of us now would have a scant few minutes while we looked for corroboration online.</blockquote>