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[couldbebeautiful]

Hey, what's your favorite horror movie?

[So starts Veronica's latest video, showing her dressed as Nancy Thompson from A Nightmare on Elm Street. The costume's not complete just yet, there are three wigs of varying shades of brown in front of her, but she's definitely getting a headstart on putting this outfit together.

There's also a small stack of DVDs beside one of the wigs, with titles such as Children of the Corn, Massacre at Camp Macintosh, and Friday the 13th printed on the sides. Clearly she's put some thought into this.]

Barring that, in case you had no idea what a movie was before you came here, what's your favorite kind of horror story? Something with ghosts, monsters, evil killers—if it's something you'd tell around a campfire to scare the shit out of your friends, I'd like to hear about it. [She taps the stack of DVDs.] Research purposes, you see.

[And by research, she means she's trying to find the movies that'll terrify the shit out of the most people to screen for the night.]

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[forgeabettertomorrow]

I have a very important question.

Why in the hell would anyone willingly count anything involving ghosts or the paranormal in a list of things they consider a list of 'favorites.'

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[couldbebeautiful]

Because we like being scared sometimes.

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[forgeabettertomorrow]

Hahahaha what?

I've never heard that before. I'd much rather not be scared half to death, thanks.

[couldbebeautiful]

Sometimes we like being scared. [She enunciates every word very slowly, as if she’s talking to a kid.] Especially if there’s a TV screen separating us from the monster.

But hey. Suit yourself, I know there’s Halloween cartoons out there that aren’t terrifying as hell.

[lempereur]

The House with Laughing Windows.

[couldbebeautiful]

[Yusuke, you hipster. Veronica huffs out a quiet chuckle.]

Okay, you’re going to have to tell me what that is, because I have never heard of it up until now. [A beat.] It’s about a clown, isn’t it?

[lempereur]

It's about a painter who is hired to restore a mural, and finds out that the original artist had tortured and killed people for inspiration.

[ Of course it is. ]

[couldbebeautiful]

...somehow, I'm not surprised that's the plot. [Of course Yusuke likes it, he's an Artist.] Did he follow in the first artist's footsteps at the end?

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[fireandhoney]

I haven't watched a whole lot of movies of any kind, but I did watch The Thing and I really enjoyed it.

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[couldbebeautiful]

I saw that one, I don’t think I slept for a while after that movie. [She was twelve when she saw it, of course she didn’t do a lot of sleeping.] I still have no idea how they managed to pull off some of the death scenes.

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[fireandhoney]

Not to mention some of the forms the monster took.

[He's from a world where movies and special effects don't exist, so he's easily impressed by stuff like that.]

I also enjoyed this black and white movie I saw on tv once. I think it was called The Haunting.

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[girlybruiser]

[ Did someone say horror movies? ]

I like all kinds of horror movies, but especially ones with scary monsters or some sort of unseen evil the characters have to find.

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[couldbebeautiful]

I used to like horror movies that took place during prom or something, but uh—well, it’s been a while. [She drums her fingers on the table.] But I did see a few movies about unseen evil—have you ever seen Nightmare on Elm Street? It’s about this guy who stalks people and kills them through their dreams.

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[girlybruiser]

No, I don't think I've seen that one. I'm only really familiar with Japanese films.

[ She presumes Nightmare on Elm Street is American anyhow. ]

That sounds intriguing, though. I wonder how one would face an enemy in a dream to stop them...

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[viced]

The Fly.

The one with Jeff Goldblum. Cult classic, weird science, and a little touch of Kafka in the mix? It's perfect horror.

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[couldbebeautiful]

Yeah, I saw that movie! [A beat.] I thought it was really off-putting, honestly. And not in the way horror movies are supposed to make you feel.

[She might be overidentifying with the movie’s Veronica, a little bit, but there are—parallels there, between her own life and the movie’s plot, that mean it hits just a little too close to home now. She might not have blown JD’s head off with a shotgun, but she remembers the shock on his face when the gunshot rang out.]

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[viced]

Yeah? Why's that? Was it the body horror... or something else?

I mean, the body horror is pretty bad, so I wouldn't blame you.

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[restingstitchface]

I see you're dredging up the great and terrible flicks of yesteryear.

[You have a poor taste in cinema is this nerd's unspoken statement.]

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[viced]

Hey! It's a matter of taste, and completely subjective.

Next you're going to be telling me your favorite is... fuck, I don't know, Nosferatu? The Omen? Something pretentious, I assume?

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[couldbebeautiful]

It wasn't that long ago, it came out three years ago. They still show reruns sometimes.

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[onlydoubts]

I still don't get the appeal. Though I guess the one where they were hitting zombies with pool-sticks was entertaining. [ ... Shaun of the Dead probably isn't the kind of movie we're talking here, though. he'd barely finished Halloween before putting on something less... filled with people being murdered. ]

Is that what you're dressing up as, someone from one of those films?

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[couldbebeautiful]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen that one? But you should tell me the title anyway, I’ll add it to the list. [A shrug.] As for the appeal—I’m not sure about this, but I think it’s because when you watch a horror movie, about the only danger you’re really in is the danger of losing sleep. You’re not gonna die because a zombie broke through the movie screen and bit you.

[She tugs slightly on the jacket, smoothing out the wrinkles.] Yeah, Nancy Thompson from Nightmare on Elm Street. She goes up against someone who can kill people through their dreams.

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[onlydoubts]

Shaun of the Dead. [ it's a comedy, but it's still his favorite so it counts! ]

I've never thought of it that way. Getting all the thrills without the danger of it.

It's been too long, Veronica, how's it going?

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[restingstitchface]

[What a nice film collection. Though too rooted in modern interpretations of horror, in his opinion.]

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Horror rooted in the human psyche that mirrors humanity provides the biggest chill down one's spine because it's the most real.

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[couldbebeautiful]

...okay, great, but I'm not looking for real, I just want to scare the shit out of people.