Assignment 10: Eli Wrinn

I would say by far, my greatest fear is uncertainty. This is because I don't really fear the conventional things that most people do. For example, I am not afraid of heights, in fact I might even be fond of heights of that is possible, I'm not really afraid of the dark, I think bugs and spiders are cool, and I don't really care about public humiliation. To be fair, being buried alive would probably stink so that sort of scares me, but other than that, no real conventional fears apply very strongly to me. I like to think of this in terms of movies that scare me. The predictable ones do not. Ghost movies with jump scares, while maybe still enjoyable, don't scare me as much because it is pretty clear where the movie is going--a freaky reappearing ghost or demon that is going to pop out on the left side of the screen because our eyes scan screens from the middle to the right. (It's true, try it next time you watch a jump scare movie) Zombie apocalypses don't scare me either because odds are, I would be a zombie anyway. The movies that really scare me are the ones that do not really fit in any specific subject and you have no idea what the evil is going to be and how it is going to be portrayed. This is why some of the movies that scare me most are Sinister, Saw, It Follows, and The Human Centipede. They don't conform with any common fear and you are uncertain of what they are going to scare you with. (Oh my gosh why did I have to think about The Human Centipede I'm about to throw up all over my keyboard)