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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 6208100"><p>The more I think about this point, which is generally taken to be true in horror, so it is a fair criticism, the less I am sure it is accurate. I am not sure things become less scary because they are familiar. For me, zombies are just as scary as they were the first time I saw them. No matter how many zombie movies come out, I still get the creeps watching them and they are one of the few sub genres in horror that consistently get me on the edge of my seat (even after four seasons of walking dead, I am still creeped out when zombies show up). I think the reason zombies scare me so much, is because they are a physical manifestation of of how fragile humans really are. They are a reminder that everyone dies and that the body breaks down. So while I think the unfamiliar and the unkown can be scary, I think there are lots of other things going on, and a monster that is familiar can still be quite frightening. Every once in a while I see a horror writer or an rpg declare that vampires and ghosts are too well known now, so we have to find new monsters to scare a new age (and I am all for finding new monsters). But almost invariably, the deliberately bizarre and unusual monsters they create toward that end, fail to give me the willies. So I just find myself being less and less convinced by this position the more I encounter it (even if I've advocated myself from time to time).</p></blockquote><p></p>

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