Zombies Hands down, nothing flat, zombies scared, and continue to scare, the living bejeezus out of me. Can't do 'im, which prolly means I am toast for the Zombie Apocalypse. Music playing backwards Because in addition to sounding just plain scary, the "hidden messages" are usually about Satan.
Dolls Particularly the soulless, possibly possessed kind made of porcelain. Dolls just look creepy.
Driving/riding alone in the front seat Its that whole “there’s something on the wing!” scenario, only its in the window, and thus much, much closer to eating your face.
The ghostly sounds of children laughing or singing These are usually harbingers of bad things coming to eat your face.
EVPs EVP work as a whole is just plain creepy.
Freddy Krueger, Jason, Leatherface, etc. movie monsters can never be stopped. They always have sequels. Including n00bs like Jigsaw.
Handy Cam Horror Its too real (when done correctly). Too close to real life.Hotel California For a song about addiction or other vices, it certainly has some loaded images of beasts and hedonistic tendencies. You can check in, but never check out.
Crescendos Besides being occasionally painful, the decibels and growing volume for some reason trigger some primal fear of it.
Open casket funerals Sometimes, I think the media puts the wrong things in your head, ruining otherwise touching moments.
Gornography Style Movies That new genre of slick Eli Roth's wet dreams. Because some part of you wonders what you would do in the situation, and since you’re neither good-looking or an actor, there’s no way you’ll live through the experience to sell movie rights afterwards.
The thought of having my Achilles’ Tendon cut or severed You know you can’t walk w/o that tendon, right?
The sound of a knife grinding against a plate Its like an ice-pick in my ears.
The old Twilight Zone Great ambiance….sometimes too great.
Every Breath You Take You know its about a stalker, right?
This Old Sports Drink commercial, wherein: athletes were in weather so hot, their lower torsos were melting: I dunno, its an old commercial. The thought of melting onto the sidewalk disturbs me beyond reason.
Vincent Marcone’s artwork Love it, love it love it. My Pet Skeleton (old version) The music by Johnny Hollow really makes it work. Here's his over all site: My Pet Skeleton //. Disturbing but lovely in its own way.
The creek behind my mother’s old house People were always getting murdered/raped/attacked there. You never knew what could happen at an old creek like that. Didn’t help living so close to crime central (well, sorta).
Cemeteries Which is where a) zombies come from, or b) ghosts come from.Children’s graves Besides unbearably sad, yet you never know when one of those little bastards might pop right up to get you. See cemetaries.
Pet’s graves See above and cemetaries.
Basements and attics Cuz that’s where the people in horror movies always get killed in. And where the killers/monsters/ghosts always hide.
Flash cartoons or animations intended to lure you into a false sense of security and then scaring you half to death by sudden imagery and/or sounds I FUCKING HATE THOSE THINGS.
Seemingly peaceful/cute flash cartoons or animations intended to lure you into a false sense of security and then scaring you half to death by sudden imagery and/or sounds I FUCKING HATES THOSE ONES EVEN MORE.
Pyramid Head Fucker’s invulnerable, is a rapist, can rip your skin off in one go, and ends all boss battles on his terms. PH is a servant ofGod, and everyone else are either target practice for javelins or bananas that need to be peeled.Under your bed and the closet Cuz that’s where the bad things hide to get you.
Mr. Ed’s lips Man….creepy shit.
My old PeeWee Herman doll Setting aside his fall from grace, I recently found this old toy with a broken voice box. Creepy enough when it worked, sounded downright demonic when half-dead.
PeeWee Herman’s talking furniture Imagine if you will, the concept of a talking toilet w/ bidet function.
Non-existence Just try to wrap your mind around it. Its not exactly cozy, is it?
The sound effects from Psycho, used in movies to scare you at a moment’s notice You know, that “RRRRRREEEEEEEEE” noise.
Glow-in-the-Dark items you forgot you left out It kinda looks like they move on their own if you’re real tired.
The concept of having my lips sewn shut like Loki did in one of the old Norse Myths Sounds painful, but any mouth mutilation gets me creeped out.Ragnarok The realization of no happy endings, according to the Norsemen, and the predictions that we’ll all go up in flames after reading about Ragnarok at 8 years of age is a scary thing. Cuz the Apocalypse is scary to an 8 year old. Should be scary at any age, really.
A woman screaming in abject pain and horror I dunno why, but there’s something primally frightening of a woman screaming.
My grandmother’s back bedroom It was the original house's master bedroom (before theybuilt a master bedroom upstairs), in which their dog had been buried in front of. It was always cold, no matter the weather (California gets hot sometimes. SOMETIMES 8D). Plus, there were always strange noises outside if you slept there. Its not so bad now cuz my grandmother sleeps there now, but when it wasn’t being used, it always seemed forboding.
An old statue my grandparents have at the landing of their staircase Its this totem pole/voodoo looking thing that just stares art you with this blank stare. Its in a corner downstairs now, but when you turn it around, it looks like a man whizzing on the wall, so I guess its not so bad. The fear of “The Big One” As a resident of the Bay Area AND California, you worry about earthquakes periodically. We’re gonna bypass doom and break off to go hang with Hawaii. Alaska can come too,
Cataclysmic disaster movies at a young age When you’re young, you tend to let your imagination run wild enough to consider a giant tidal wave coming to drown your 50 mile inland town. Prolly why I'm not interested in them nowadays.
Dismembered dolls Probably because it looks so human, that the mutilation seems to disturbing.
Infinity Its too damn big for me to wrap my head around.
--Dio (10/06/10)