Movie. More immersive than a book, because it fills ytour field of vision. With a book, you can just stop reading. With a movie, there is...no escape.....

Naw, 'cause Horror movies can do all sortsa things like have a zombie jump out at the girl and make her scream real loud. Fact is, Humans are designed to understand pictures rather than words. That's why we were drawing back in the Stone Age instead of writing. It's like, what's more real, a pencil drawn outline of a house or a Monet painting of a glamourous French Chateau?

The more of the five senses you appeal to, the more "realistic" the experience will become. You will be focused on fear instead of trying to imagine what a Zombie cutting up someone would look like. Horror books which describe gruesome deaths and slaughters, sure that's scary but when reading Horror novels I've never felt true fear, only a certain regret that I read the gory parts. Horror movies, yes because they can freak you out to the days. Plus you've got "screams" which when you hear, instinct will trigger you on alert, maybe even fear.

Because when you think about it, the same horrible monster drawn in detail for a comic or something is more scary than the same monster described in a book. Take Jaws for example, many may prefer the book but it's teh movie which is the scariest. Well anyway, those are my thoughts

@Aceaz Hmm I havent thought about it that way, I guess its possible (I rarely go to watch movies on the big screen and I prefer to when I read a book begin it and finish it without stopping)
I guess you're right tho

@Darkov I see. What do you think about what I said about being able to do worse stuff in books than in a movie?

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Edited by - sycho warrior on 2/18/2005 11:43:07 AM

books rely on you on you to make the pictures, its you the imagines what the " terror from beyond that killed a town " looks like, its you that imagines the dark and stormy night etc, movies rob you of that.

A book cant startle you. In a movie it can be quiet then BOOM out pops your monster when you least expect it.

books have a certain atmosphere, but there are a couple of directors that have created masterpieces of cinematic art.

i cite the example of (to me) -THE- greatest horror/thriller movie.

Alien.

Ridley Scott was a genius in the direction of this picture, the framing, the distinct visual style, and of course, the use of H.R. Giger to design the alien. now if you tell me that you could imagine that alien before 1979, i shall call you a liar.

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We could've been a good couple, we coulda had somethin' special; but you one crazy-ass *****!

I good writer will be able to paint a picture in your mind when he writes. That is the key to success.

Example:

When i first watched "The Shining" when i was about 15, i wet myself. I loved it but it literally made me change my underwear.

When i read the book about 5 years later, i was more scared reading it than i was watching the film.

Although this is only an example for me of course. The only way you could individually answer a question like this is by watching a horror movie that has been based on a book and read it after you have seen it.

The mind is always the best thing, when it comes to scareing you. Like in the dark, imagining things, that are not really there. Same with a book. You can imagine more terror in your mind than seeing it on the screen.

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now if you tell me that you could imagine that alien before 1979, i shall call you a liar.

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Why? If Giger could do it, why is it so hard to believe that somebody else could?

I think above all, both movies, and books, would have to be games on scare factor. But thats just me, I have read Horror books and found em really creepy at best, I have watched movies and been scared. But nothing beats the fear you get from playing scary games hands down. I mean, after I played DOOMIII a whole night I could barely sleep (not that I was scared, it was just disturbing) I think the immersion is "there" more because instead of watching a character do things or reading about it, your in control, YOU control the outcome. I feel in books and movies your somewhat "promised" either a happy or a unhappy ending, however, in games, you decide, which is what makes them so much more scary to me.

"Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. "

i think scary books are scarier than movies. your imagination can be worse than a movie and play tricks on you (if you ahve a good one like me) and it comes up with very scary visiosns rather than seeing ones that are already there. they seem to leave a lasting effect too

books as the can be very long i.e. a good steven king book

It really depends how good your imagination is. If you have a really good imagination, then books, because you can construct your own images of what is going on. if not, then movies, because you can see what is going on.
The Ultimate achievement is when you can spontaniously think of ANYTHING without any sort of picture or medium to build it from.

i saw a begger on the street the other day coughing his guts up while trying not to let his bottle of wine slip. his face went as red as reddy the red high king of red stuff. this only served to highlight how yellow the untreated scabs on his forehead had become. the blood which had dried cracked as his face strained.

while he was off guard his lady (if you can call her that) friend took the chance to snatch the wine from his weakened grip and downed the remains. suffice it to say when his coughing fit was passed and he realised that he was not only unfortunately still alive but also without alcahol he rounded on her with a closed fist.

thankfully for her the saving grace was that the half clad child in her arms took the majority of the blow and by the oddly mis-shaped head this looked like it was not the first time juniour had stood up for mum.

as she attempted to regain her balance while screaming out a few niceties about the gentlemans parentage, nearly slipping in the remains or their festering, regurgatated breacfast she let the bottle slip. as it smashed on the pave the glass shattered leaving only the lable streatched out on the kerb. as i passed i realised the true horror of it all...

...it was a 2004 bosnian grenache.

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