WitchLover said:
The scariest of scary movies!!
Now I'm only doing this because I'm watching the movie Silent Hill: Revelations and it i one of the scariest movies I've ever seen.
How can you be scared of Pyramid Head, ya' dingus? O.O He's a Chad among video game horror icons, right next to Nemesis, Mr. X, etc. Personally, I didn't find the movies that frightening.
However, there's a lovely old series called Monsters that absolutely
fucking terrified me in my youth. For those who may be unaware, Monsters lived up to its name by having episodes that revolved around... well, monsters! For example, one episode started a Domovoy (In Slavic religion tradition, a Domovoy is a house spirit of a given kin that can be upset if you don't take care of your home) that made a woman and her husband's life hell because she wasn't taking care of their home.
That spooked me, but NOTHING like the episode based on a Stephen King short story, which was one of the first episodes I watched aside from one with vampires. The short story in question revolved around this guy whose bathroom sink became occupied by a finger from an unidentified source. Whatever its goal was, or if it was sentient enough to understand that it was causing him distress, was
never explained.
Eventually, he's desperate enough to get rid of it in any way, and douses it in drain cleaner. Understandably, this both hurts it and pisses it off something fierce, and we see that it's waaaay too fucking long. However, he comes up with a backup plan: a hedge trimmer, which he then uses to chop it up.
Well, unlike the end of the short story, we see what owned the finger. When the cop that arrives to see what the chaos is about opens the shaking lid and seat of the toilet, they're confronted by an arm missing a pointer finger. The arm proceeds to strangle the defenseless cop while the apartment owner just sits against the tub, now laughing mad from the experience.
I was roughly eleven years old at the time. Young enough to still be a kid, but old enough to know that something like that existed only in stories. Welp, my compliments to Stephen King and the director of the episode, because that damn live action adaptation ingrained so much trauma into my mind that I still find myself getting jumpy around sinks, even in my twenties.