Covert Nightmare Fetishists!

So, what are your favorite types of horror, everybody?

Visceral Horror. Like say Dead Space or The Thing. Carpenter and a few other artists use that art style as well.

I do love psychological horror though. Cry Of Fear, Outlast, and I think a few others.

Eh, I'm more a fan of mental and emotional horror, myself. I've found that, with a little thought, any trope could be made terrifying. Hell, ANYTHING could be made terrifying.

edited 21st Nov '16 9:33:24 AM by fredhot16

There is also comedic horror like say Beetlejuice or what you generally see in Tim Burton's films in general.

I also like Alice In Wonderland's brand on horror. Especially Mc Gee's Alice, that definetely qualifies as psychological horror with a smattering of psychedelic.

I try to be quiet about being a Nightmare Fetishist, but I definitely am one.

So... here I am, I guess.

edited 10th Feb '17 9:52:33 AM by BaconZorp

What up?

Nothing much, just getting crazy excited for Stranger Things 2.

Not-so-covert nightmare fetishist reporting in.

Bonjour, Sed!

Not-so-covert nightmare fetishist here as well.

Anyway, do you guys subscribe to horror You Tube channels such as Dark5?

I was a fan of the meat channel. Shame it ended so suddenly. I also like the Sword & Scale true crime podcast. This episode in particular is terrifying.

Covert irl, not-so-covert online. I'm a big fan of gore, body horror, big scary monsters. Possibly about half of that is due to my big anatomy and biology interests. Plus, gore is fun to paint.

Though funnily enough, I don't ever watch horror movies or read horror stories. Too paranoid and scaredy for those. IT, more like, GET that away from me please

What she said. I love monsters like that as well. Supernatural or organic monsters always have intrigued me. Cybernetic monsters are also interesting too.

I appreciate a good monster design - this◊ is a pretty awesome one by Marc Simonetti I found recently - but I have high standards and it isn't really the main reason I enjoy horror in the first place. :P

I've been listening to Podcast.The Magnus Archives and it is fantastic. Each episode is stand-alone, but season one had an arc villain in the person of Jane Prentiss, the Flesh Hive, and the one for season two seems to be the Not-People, and there are a lot of other minor subplots, most of which appear unexpectedly in unlikely places, often subtly enough that it's easy to overlook - the library of Jurgen Leitner, including The Bone Turner's Tale and Ex Altiora; the Peoples' Church of the Divine Host; "Antonio Blake"; the meat-things; the spider-husks; the house on Hilltop Road; the taxidermy people; whatever "Michael" is; the Lukas family and the things they do with their money (including funding the Magnus Institute).

edited 30th Sep '17 12:41:01 PM by Noaqiyeum

I'm not a huge fan of the horror genre, but I do have a fascination, bordering on obsession, with transformations. Especially of the painful and/or involuntary sort. Some of the best ones almost make me feel it along with the victim. I've always wanted to do TF art, but I'm not very good at drawing humans yet.

Well, my sketchbooks are full of Lovecraftian horrors, distorted human figures, a bit of cannibalism, and general not niceness, which is often surprising to people irl, so I guess the covert part checks out. I'm not sure if this counts, but I also listen to a lot of metal, which often contains disturbing lyrics, but I mostly listen to it for the music, not the words. Either way, most people don't think I'd like this kind of stuff until I show them.

Also, Lovecraft was the best author ever. Change my mind.

Hey there, I'm a gorehound and an introvert(surprised?). Ironically when I was younger I was scared of all horror regardless of how cheesy. Nowadays I watch David Cronenberg films and both cheer and am majorly impressed with all the body horror.

Speaking of body horror it's my favorite kind of horror in the genre second to psychological.

To anyone who knows me its no secret I love horror but to anyone else I look like a wimp who'd chicken out.

Same. It's a really cool brand of body horror, and I really like thinking about the different way the changes could take place.

I'm not a huge fan of the horror genre, but there are two exceptions to that rule for me: any incarnation of Carrie White (but Sissy Spacek is best Carrie), and the musical (and the corresponding film adaptation) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

I have a particular love for transformation horror. The fly is my favorite Cronenberg film, it even stars Jeff Goldblum who is my favorite actor. Transformations that both look and sound painful are so fun to see

I'm also fond of the slight variant that we see in Animorphs where the transformation isn't painful, but the subject knows it probably should be and is disturbed by the lack of pain.

Yeah it's like "My bones and muscles should be snapping and breaking from this, why doesn't it hurt?".

I am really REALLY into Gorn. Maybe not in a sexual way, but definitely in an artistic way.

I'm a Nightmare Fetishist too. I started watching Bedtime Stories (YouTube Channel) because I wanted to have nightmares. Oh, and after hearing that H. P. Lovecraft cand H. R. Giger suffered from them, I'd kind of like to have night terrors.

Additionally, I'm not disturbed or disgusted by cannibalism and my favourite Doctor Who episode is "Blink" (the debut of the Weeping Angels).

I cast Thread Necromancy! RISE FROM YOU GRAVE!

Ahem. Hello.

As you can see from my avatar gallery, I'm a bit of a Nightmare Fetishist and wanted to introduce myself.