Hi! I hope you’re doing good in life! So it’s spooky season so I have an ask related to that. I don’t know if you play horror video games, watch horror movies/shows, or read horror books, but if you do, I have to ask: What is the most disturbing book, or video game or show/movie that you’ve played/watched/read? In my opinion, there is two types of horror: the ones that scare you, and the ones that traumatize you. If you can think of any book, movie, or game that really kind of fucked you up, I’m curious to know if you feel like answering. I hope you have a good day and a good life.
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the answer ended up being really long lol
Woof, this is honestly a pretty hard question, since I can't really name any horror (or otherwise) media that actually left me kind of fucked up for a bit, at least not to the degree where it affected me for a while. I probably haven't been really fucked up by anything since I was a kid, so I'll try and recall what a few things fucked me up back then...
Off the top of my head I know that two different spongebob episodes got me bad, the first being one with that tunnel of love thing (tho tbh i havent seen it in a while so it might still spook me today) and the one where i'm pretty sure for whatever reason squidward gets locked in some small locker and has some kind of fucked up dream, whatever that was. I remember there was an eagle in that one. the eagle terrified me. (i looked them up, and the first episode is titled 'tunnel of glove' and the second is 'squidward in clarinetland'. with how badly that second one got to me, i'm surprised i ended up learning to play the clarinet at all)
other than that, i think the courage the cowardly dog episode 'the house of discontent' got me pretty bad, too, but i think everyone who saw any amount of that series as a kid has at least one episode that got them fucked up.
there's probably a handful of scooby-doo stuff that got to me when i was a kid, but i could not name any specifics (asides from charlie the robot's original episode, christ) because i think i managed to see just about every bit of available scooby media around that time.
nowadays stuff still does kinda fuck me up, but it's usually only for brief bits of time. the most recent example I can think of is cowboy bebop's 20's episode, pierrot le fou, which is honestly some great horror, especially how it uses the show's typical format and flips it on it's head, but i wouldn't necessarily say it got to me because of it being scary, more because of the way the ending disturbed me for a bit. it was the only episode that had me stop afterwards and really look into it for anything other than clarifying a character's gender, lol.
the endings of both neon genesis evangelion and end of evangelion had me shaken, the latter more so than the former, but not really due to horror aspects, though. i did have to take a walk after finishing end of evangelion. i don't really watch horror movies, i just... read the wikipedia plot descriptions of them.
honestly, i think some of the more popular youtube analogue horror series have gotten to me worse (likely due to the fact that they can get a bit more fucked up than, say, a tv show or movie), specifically the walten files (which i did watch) and the mandela catalogue (which i just watched wendigoon's vids on), and those two and mostly because facial distortion is generally just an incredibly effective form of horror imo. a lot of the time (esp with the childhood examples) the way i was 'fucked up' was that id be in be visualizing the stuff that scared me, and both the mandela catalogue and the walten files had me doing that for a bit.
now that i remember it, i was really scared of fnaf when it first came out. i first learned of it second-hand from seeing some other kids looking into it, and the bits and pieces i put together about it really scared me.
honestly, it's usually straight-up disturbing sequences or imagery that gets to me the most, and i know my limits well enough to generally identify and avoid that stuff, which is probably why i don't have too many recent examples. i've got one or two examples of non-horror movies that fucked me up as a kid, but that's mostly because they were wildly inappropriate for someone of my age (at the time) to be witnessing, so that's a different sort of topic.
i mean, i think i generally have a decent tolerance for fucked up stuff in media, anyways, i mean, i enjoy berserk and haven't really been too upset or disturbed by what happens in it (look theres some nasty shit in there im not saying its not that bad) so there's definitionally some kind of line that media needs to cross to really get to me nowadays, or it just needs to be a specific kind of fucked up. books generally don't do that for me so i don't have any book examples. no games, either, though shadow mario and the haunted house segments in super mario 3d world scared me so much that i had to make my mom do the levels for me, and i'm pretty sure scooby doo: first frights scared me a bit when i first played it on ds.
other than that, though, I just think that, in pokemon x, the story that an npc tells you during your first trip to route 14 and then the strange office building encounter with the animation-less hex maniac creeped me out pretty bad.
yeah, it's kind of hard for me to think of anything (recent) that actually really fucked me up or anything. most stuff just scared me, never really fucked me up or figuratively traumatized me in recent years.
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out of every piece of shit character in the history of media, the cigarette smoking man is one of the MOST pieces of shit, imo. legit he’s so fuckin annoying the way he’s always just hanging around without doing anything except making some face as if he’s concerned about something, even during relatively normal conversations
he’ll just sit somewhere in the background, make The Face, smoke his stupid-ass cigarettes and then fucking leave them everywhere too. he even made an oversight(?) and left them in krycek’s car which allowed mulder to connect the dots that krycek was lying
and then he’ll go around the place as if he’s got authority to tell people what to do even though the viewer doesn’t yet know who he is or who he’s actually working for. some of the other characters know, but all the viewer sees is just some apparent lackey who thinks he can give people orders and it’s just?? bro who the fuck even ARE YOU THOUGH???
how come nobody in the show knows his goddamn name either? even when he’s in skinner’s office, skinner never says what his position is, or even some kind of (fake) name to refer to him as. did he seriously just show up at the fbi headquarters one day like
“hi i’m gonna hang out here now, jsyk”
“umm okay. name?”
“let’s just say i’m ‘the man’“
- and nobody there cared to background check him or something? granted, some of them do know who he is, but obvs not ALL of them do. is no one curious about that or are they just afraid to ask questions? (okay probably the latter)
i swear though, there has gotta be a group of agents who would really like to know what this guy is even contributing with to the workplace. bc as far as i’ve seen (season 1-2), all he’s done is what i’ve described above. well, those things, and collecting (aka. stealing) evidence of aliens etc. and hiding it away in that big storage room-thing. fucker.
this is why it was the best thing ever when mulder was in skinner’s office and skinner was like “get the hell out” and you thought he was telling mulder to get out, but turns out he was saying it to the smoking man! the look on his face when he understood that skinner was talking to him was one of the tv-show moments of all time, i swear.
anyway, i hope there’ll be some comeuppance in future seasons for this annoying-ass gent. don’t disappoint me, show
EDIT: watched “one breath” (great ep btw) today and at least mulder got to threaten this bitch some! LET’S FUCKIN GOOOOO
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