u/Melizzabeth

I'm a big horror movie fan and they often try to use rats as the "aaahhh oh no scary!" kind of thing in some movies. You all know the tropes, I'm sure. It never really affected me before but now I actively find them adorable when they're meant to be scary. And they're always female! Guessing no one wants to see the lads and their big bols.

For example, I just watched the recent Nosferatu movie and there was a scene with rats on someone's body. Rather than being creepy I just noticed them all sniffing and being curious with their little heads bobbing. I felt similar about some scenes in Terrifier 3 but I'm not gonna go into THAT movie in this sub..

Anyone else here have similar experiences?

I was asked how I feed my girls at the vet yesterday and it got me wondering how different owners feed their rats.

I fill a bowl and make sure it always has at least some food in it. I also throw some around their cage with seeds and oats.

Do you scatter feed? Bowl feed? Measure how much they get? How do you do it?

I started with a guide to get going on the right foot and now I'd like to branch out. I am working on leveling with the start of the Rock Splitter/Thorns build and while I do like it, it isn't quite what I'm after in the long term. A beefy poison build does feel like what I want, but leaning more towards the poison aspect.

Are most of the centipede/gorilla skills viable or are there clear winners and clear losers of the bunch? While I don't want to just follow a skill sheet I would like to avoid settling into something I like just to find out the skill combination won't get me far.

Slasher villains used to make people scared but now you can find merchandise with them everywhere you look. Freddy Krueger can't be scary when people put their little dogs in costumes of him.

Monster and animal movies don't hit like they used to. A big shark isn't scary anymore, its almost cute.

Ghost stories, at least for me, seem to be either laughably absurd or lean more emotional than horror

I don't have an example of everything of course but this leads me to wonder;

What is actually scary anymore? What can a horror movie include that can genuinely scare people beyond 'boo!' moments?

Edit: Saying "It's subjective" or "It's preference" is obvious and contributes absolutely nothing to the conversation.