I Finally Got Scared!

by Christina
(Athens, Greece)

I've been a Horror Addict for quite some time, actually I got hooked after watching A Nightmare on Elm Street on a hot summer night with 2 of my friends and I was scared to go to sleep afterwards.

I have been trying to explain my "situation" to people but they just don't seem to get it... I am not entertained by all kinds of movies and the purpose of watching a movie is primarily to be entertained so I refuse to watch love stories and romantic comedies and I end up being considered plain weird (being a chick that is).

I will just cut a long story short... I haven't been able to get really scared lately. Nothing seems to get my heart pounding like it did. I thought I had become numb at first and tried reading every single Stephen King book in a desperate attempt to let my mind do the scaring (and I have a scary imagination indeed). I admit that the short story "the man in the black suit" from King's short story compilation "Everything's Eventual" got things going but still I wasn't REALLY scared.

What REALLY got things going was "Darkness"... It actually managed to scare me so much that I had to turn on every single light in the house so that I could go to sleep only to have nightmares! The story, the atmosphere, the actors, the photography, the sounds... it touches the actual fear of darkness, of loneliness and despair...

I loved everything about it and I have only watched it once more after the first time so as not to ruin the "scariness"...