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Message: <blockquote data-quote="1StrangeFellow" data-source="post: 152149" data-attributes="member: 3954">I generally find myself unable to appreciate most horror movies.  They have the opposite effect on me than most people... I find almost all of them quite silly (especially if I'm in the theater and get to watch everyone else scared of something I think is ridiculous).  I laughed my way through 13 Ghosts.  A very amusing movie with comic book 'ghosts' and a giant glass Rubic's Deathtrap.  I sit through a horror movie... only because I can give it the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment.I guess it comes from growing up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother who spoke in what seemed to be gibberish and sacrificed animals in the attic (among other things).  The Blair Witch was just some stupid old lady who made arts and crafts and hung them in trees.  She would have done better if she'd taken her folk art stick people and sold them by the road... location, location, location.   Occassionally she'd leave her pet rock outside your tent or make you go stand in the corner.  Yawn.  Big frikkin' deal.When I was a kid, the Shining kind of got me a little worked up (reminded me of my own "dear old dad" whacked out and chasing me through the woods with a shotgun).  I guess when you live through horror or see some of the stranger things out there Hollywood CGI boogeymen and people with masks and chainsaws just don't do it.  The reactions of the actors playing 'victims' or 'survivors' really don't match up with reality all that much, either.I can't take a date to a horror movie - ever - because if she gets scared and I'm sitting there quite obviously trying to keep from bursting out in laughter, and later have to explain why over coffee or dinner that's usually the last time I ever see that person again.Reading Lovecraft kind of does the same thing.  He builds up, builds up, builds up... and then "Oh, is that it?!"  I appreciate what he was trying to do but I've found weirder things as the toy surprise in my breakfast cereal.And while I find myself liking CoC and eager to run the game, the sanity thing kind of bothers me.  I have to read the section further -I've just glossed over so far, because I hope that there is some kind of rule or optional rule that allows you to not continue losing so much sanity after repeated exposures to things or allows for some kind of desensitization.  If I lost sanity points the way proscribed in the book for different things, they'd be pumping me full of drugs and I'd be propped up in the corner with a big stupid grin on my face.  See one zombie, fine, you freak out.  See a zombie several times in a lifetime I don't think it's going to keep having the same exact effect.  Either you freaked out so bad the first time that the zombie ate your brains with some mint jelly while you stood there paralyzed after wetting yourself, or you got a grip on the fact that something like a zombie exists.  Not that I've actually seen zombies, but still....  Granted, you might not be able to relate to ordinary people who haven't seen the things you have quite as well and you might refrain from talking about certain things you've seen because they'll think you're crazy (things I can understand personally), but actually go insane or keep getting more insane each time?  The mind is a remarkable thing, and is eventually able to wrap itself around some pretty astounding things, heal or defend itself.I agree that 13 Ghosts is not very Lovecraftian.  It could probably be altered to fit better, though.  I can't think of too many horror movies that actually work.  Actually, this thread might be helpful for me planning my CoC adventures.  What movies or books actually scare 'normal' people?</blockquote>

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