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NickACJones — Abandoned house by the woods
Published: 2008-06-24 09:09:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 887; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 21
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An abandoned house out in Essex, Maryland. Spooky, eh? Wish I could say that there was some sort of frightening story associated with this place, but it's just a derelict house that nobody has bothered to fix up and sell.Related content
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Very pretty! The house looks like it used to be gorgeous.
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Ooo. Very nice. Very nice indeed. I like the composition of this; it's like the beginning of a ghost flick, where the camera is slowly zooming in on the haunted house and background info is being provided either by subtitles or character narration :I...
I went to Indiana recently, and saw tons of places like this while driving, but never got to stop and photograph any D: Did go to Crown Hill Cemetery, tho'...
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Twenty years ago a family disappeared without a trace...
...their house was abandoned, or so we all thought...
...that assumption was a mistake that we would soon come to regret.
::insert title here::
I deliberately wanted to make this look as stark and isolated as possible, which was somewhat difficult because it's directly across from a large community college campus on a major road and has the temporary headquarters for a local beltway expansion project right next to it. XD
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XD Indeed. And then it cuts into super happy scene featuring our carefully selected band of teenaged characters, chosen for their All-American Appearances, joking in the heroine's boyfriend's car as they drive to the house. And of course they're all skeptical preppy kids, because no one ever uses Goths in horror flicks, if only because we're too smart for stupid plot twists and dumbass writer's ploys.
XD Nice. Looks pretty good, all the same :3
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Horror movies are based around the fact that everybody participating in the action is a complete idiot, and bringing in people that don't fit that premise would throw off the whole (stupid) formula. Any time I've watched one of Hollywood's supposedly scary movies I've just sat there counting the ways I would've escaped/caught the killer whilst everybody on-screen was running around like an idiot or making out or dying in a predictable manner.
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((Nods)) Pretty much, yeah. Most horror movies I watch aren't scary but are good, at least from an artistic/ story/acting point of view. I think the only flicks I've seen that I actually found scary (at least in parts)were "1408", "Poltergeist", "The Haunting", "Silence of the Lambs", and "The Sixth Sense". "The Haunting" was creepy, but not scary, of course, but "Poltergeist" freaked me the hell out :I I notice but two of those weren't based on something by a notable horror writer. HMM, HAVE I STUMBLED ONTO SOMETHING HERE?!
I still hold the opinion that someone could do a wicked horror flick with intelligent characters. Stephen King pulled it off in his first books, Lovecraft (usually) did, and Thomas Harris certainly did, so it's not impossible.
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The only movie which ever freaked me out was "A Brief History of Time". Games are a little better at providing a creepy atmosphere, especially Silent Hill when you're walking through a school filled with intangible ghost children who would sometimes just grab you out of nowhere. Loved that part.
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