Spontaneous Musings

Woke up irritable, due to poor sleep (I keep getting hot and it wakes me up - my internal heating and cooling system is still on the fritz). ( irritability solved with music )

Anyhow...I find myself craving a good ghost story movie. Or a movie that focuses on ghosts. You know of any? I've flirted with the Night House, Conjuring, An American Haunting, but nothing grabs me. I may go with Crimson Peak.

I am agnostic about ghosts. ( Read more... )
I don't tend to like a lot of horror - gore bothers me. And I've no patience for evil alien monsters from outer-space, possibly a reaction to being inundated with these movies as a child (one of my friends at the time, Debbie Dipeso, adored them, as did my paternal grandfather. My father doesn't like gore.)

But I do love horror novels (they aren't visual) and I love ghost stories. ( Read more... )

Anyhow...what if any are your favorite horror films featuring ghosts? Any favorite books about ghosts? Or ghost stories?

[I may kill my lj, html coding in this thing is making me crazy, sorry for all the edits and weird cut-tagging. I'm bored and procrastinating doing things that well I'd rather not go into. So am writing a lengthy post on The Horror Genre, in celebration of Halloween. Please note that I've left out anime, graphic novels, and a lot of TV shows and focused mainly on films and books. Because otherwise this would have been twenty pages long.]

I have what best can be described as long-term love/hate relationship with the Horror Genre. ( personal history regarding horror or the introduction )

Categorizing the Horror Genre (assuming of course, we can do such a thing?)

1. ( Popular or Mainstream Horror )


2. ( Classical Horror )


3. ( Mad Science or Horror in the Science Fiction Genre )


3. ( Psychological Horror )

4.( The Slasher Horror Flicks )