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Giveaway Contest: Win a Blu-ray Player!

We’re giving two people Samsung Blu-ray players and bundles of Blu-ray movies. All you have to do to win is tell us what you’re afraid of …

By ModernMan Editors

Living in a luxury high-rise apartment overlooking New York City’s Columbus Circle would be nice … but you’d still want to leave the apartment every now and then. In the movie Columbus Circle, however, the reclusive Abigail (Selma Blair), who suffers from crippling agoraphobia, hasn’t left her apartment for more than a decade. Then an unsolved murder and various nefarious plots change all that.

The thriller, which just came out on DVD and Blu-Ray, boasts an amazing cast including Blair, Giovanni Ribisi, Jason Lee, and Amy Smart. To celebrate its release, we’re giving two winners a Samsung Blu-ray player along with Blu-ray copies of Columbus Circle, Fast Five, Cowboys & Aliens, and The Change-Up. Here’s all you have to do to win:

Step 1: If you haven’t already, Like ModernMan on Facebook.

Step 2: In the comments section of this story (below), answer this question: What’s your biggest phobia and why?

You can enter until 11:59pm on April 22. Good luck!

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Clinton Ausmus (Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:19:20 +0000): My biggest phobia is spiders (arachnophobia). I think it stems from a bad dream I had after visiting a spider museum as a young boy. There were spiders in there that were absolutely huge. Course they could have looked huge because I was small, but still..
Jonathan Mulanix (Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:39:08 +0000): Getting kidnapped by Amazonians from the planet Amazonia and sentenced to death by snu-snu.
Cass Williams-Finn (Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:52:04 +0000): I am afraid or drowning, I do not know why but for some reason I always have this dream that I am in a swimming pool and the cover starts to close while I am underwater. I then go into sheer panic, struggle and then wake up. This dream is always the same and I always wake up but it has been haunting me all my life. I am also afraid of being buried alive. Am I claustrophobic? Interesting......... What do these dreams mean?
Micah Bailey (Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:46:45 +0000): I'm afraid of dying alone. As someone who has never been in a long term relationship, I fear it will never happen for me.
Ronald Oliver (Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:55:32 +0000): My biggest phobia is not being able to win in this ModernMan.com Blu-ray Player Giveaway! Why? Because I have aquired quite a collection of Blu-ray movies over the last few years (that I have won through online giveaways and contests) and I haven't a Blu-ray player to watch them on yet! Oh, the irony! Not being able to win a Blu-ray player is what TRULY scares me! and is my BIGGEST phobia!
Matt Riess (Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:46:26 +0000): DVDaphobia - The fear of not being to watch this movie ob Blu-Ray.
John Kuroki (Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:42:39 +0000): My biggest phobia is me being watched by someone who I didn't know was watching me. Like in "Rear Window" when that photographer is watching his neighbor who turns out to be a psychopath. I'm like the murdering neighbor... wait there has to be a better way to put that... I didn't kill anyone!
Bill Persinger (Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:34:28 +0000): Being followed
Doug Edwards (Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:09:02 +0000): My biggest phobia is failing. Failing in my career, failing in my family, family to provide as a man...
Doug Edwards (Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:09:45 +0000): *failing* to provide as a man...
Karen Shaughnessy (Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:26:23 +0000): My biggest phobia is of fire. I don't like to be near any open flame such as a bbq grill. I am always afraid I will somehow catch on fire. Sounds ridiculous and it is ridiculous but can't shake that fear.
Arturo Baster (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:58:30 +0000): My biggest phobia is getting into a car crash. There's a couple of reasons but the biggest one is because it has already happened once and my beautiful car was totaled, worse of it all was it was an old lady's fault who didn't realise it til the cops got her out of the car... Anyhow, I'd hate to lose another car that I've worked on so hard and ofcourse the injuries to me or my girlfriend that could stem from it; and the fact that its so possible (even probable) only makes it that much scarier.
Beth Ross (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:54:40 +0000): I'm afraid of this elevator in China [Zhang Jia Jie in Hunan Province] it actually makes me slightly nauseated watching the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O-1rjyebFU there are also some bridges that cause this same feeling...more or less it's the though of falling from a great height to my death...having to stomach my stomach in my throat...but any video that can cause this reaction from my desk chair is something to worry about :/ yikes.
Vicki Lynn (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:02:46 +0000): heights!
Vicki Lynn (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:04:39 +0000): Don't like falling, If i stand in front of an elevator, I start getting dizzy just thinking about getting on..
Gail McLane (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:03:42 +0000): "OUTSIDE" Because I am an agoraphobic who has severe panic attacks....and I am scared to death to leave my house because I think I will have a panic attack...With being agoraphobic I also have phobias of meat (mad cow) bugs, can food, phones, windows, and the list goes on.......My BIGGEST though is the eating meat thing...I DO NOT WANT MAD COW!
Darlene Geloso (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:04:47 +0000): Birds ever since watching the movie The Birds.
Christina Manding (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:06:22 +0000): My biggest phobia is demons haunting my house and trying to kill me.
Ashley Wood (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:07:59 +0000): What’s your biggest phobia and why? Falling...my body does not defy gravity and also doesn't bounce but in any instance falling scares the daylights out of me. No matter what the results probably wont feel or be good at all.
Jennifer Leigh Bissett (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:08:38 +0000): my biggest phobia is spiders! why you ask? because I have two brothers who tortured me as a child!
Lisa Jenny (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:10:20 +0000): My biggest fear is dying a painful death.
Mae Dyer (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:11:25 +0000): I am afraid of the dark because I love horror movies! :)
Patrick Howell Lee (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:13:09 +0000): I'm afraid of snakes. I know that most aren't poisonous but I think that I will get bitten and die.
Patricia Gawlik-Baldwin (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:14:44 +0000): My biggest fear is Ohpidiophobia, the fear of snakes! They are creepy and can eat most anything whole.
Nicole Bishop (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:15:14 +0000): My biggest phobia would probably being eaten by giant spiders.......because everytime I try to squash a spider I have this thought in my head its going to grow bigger than me and squash me before I can squash it so its really hard for me to kill the spideys and I obviously have an active imagination and I know one day those freakin spiders are going to grow and eat me one of these days hahaha.
Patricia Harrod (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:15:51 +0000): My biggest phobia is of snakes because one time I almost stepped on a rattlesnake and a copperhead.
Ana M. Hand (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:16:01 +0000): getting lost!
Eugenie Wu (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:17:13 +0000): My biggest phobia is getting a disease that will slowly debilitate me.
Carol Porterfield (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:21:01 +0000): The DENTIST!
Victoria Morton-Williams (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:22:37 +0000): My biggest phobia is zombies. I know there are more 'realistic' things to be scared of, but I have a survival plan and where my family will meet if it happens. How can you not be terrified of the idea of being eaten alive, probably by your own friends and family. Or worse, having to kill your friends or family.
Devon Gillespie (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:23:29 +0000): My biggest phobia is dying alone; laying on my death bed and realizing that no one cared I was dying.
Michelle Faber (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:25:16 +0000): I'm deathly scared of snakes. Since a young child I have been scared. Lat summer I had a 5 foot black racer snack get into my house. It wrapped it self in my window blinds. I was sitting on the couch had no idea till I looked over and it was inches from my face. I was home alone with my twin daughters. I grabbed them both one under each arm ran down the road screaming for help. My one neighbor that I have heard me, him and his son went in and after what felt like forever caught the snake and removed it from my house. I just despise snakes, they are sneaky gross slimy nasty creatures!
Debbie Bielory Lindenbaum (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:25:40 +0000): driving off a bridge.
Stacey Lynn (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:26:54 +0000): my biggest phobia is heights...i'm deathly afraid of heights. I don't know why, but I found this out delivering flowers to a construction site where I had to walk up those grated metal stairs that you can see through and I started feeling light-headed and uneasy...it's kind of like a sea-sick feeling I suppose, although I've never been sea-sick. I've experienced the same feeling ever since then when I find myself in similar places.
Selina Leon (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:33:44 +0000): My biggest phobia is flying. I have the worst anxiety attacks even in airports waiting to board.
Brenda Cowie (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:33:47 +0000): afraid of heights.Reason afraid of falling and braking all my bones. I think about the walkout at the Grand Canyon. And I almost has a case of the missing cookies. I found that this became a problem when I was in Colorado at the Royal Gorge and walking over the bridge. I became dizzy and started freaking out.
Femi Cooper (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:39:11 +0000): Biggest phobia is not being able to breathe or have fresh air. So this includes drowning, suffocating or being in places with no fresh air circulating. If I can't open a window, I hate it.
Amanda Sturtz Beidel (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:39:37 +0000): my kids dieing before I do. with kids getting cancer and teenagers die in car crashes it enough to make anyone worry!
Amanda Casto (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:02:09 +0000): My biggest phobia is claustrophobia! I HATE to be in tight small places at anytime! For some reason I always feel that I can't escape if I needed to and this causes me to have panic attacks! It's silly but true! I avoid elevators at all cost..If I have to climb 20 flights of stairs then I will do that then ride in a tight space!
Linda Smith (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:27:40 +0000): I'm very afraid of fire and deep water. I almost drowned in a lake years ago, and then my back caught on fire and was in the hospital for awhile.
Sheryl Robinson Harlow (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:42:31 +0000): I'm afraid of my own dark, unfinished basement.
Brigette Barker (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:51:26 +0000): My biggest phobia is probably crocodiles/alligators - they look like living dinosaurs to me and give me the heebie geebies.
Sasa Ras (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:47:45 +0000): I'm afraid of people falling/slipping/losing control of their feet and tumbling to the ground. I'm scared they might get gravely injured like get a brain problem and won't wake up ever again. I always try to keep floors free of clutter and anything that can cause falling for this reason, no matter where I go!
Dian Mills O'Reilly (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:31:28 +0000): I have a weird combo: I have no fear of heights (in fact, I love them), but am terrified of falling. I can stand on the edge of a cliff and stare down, as long as I feel secure. One little shift in my balance, though, and I completely freak out!
Jodi Steyee Howe (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:42:17 +0000): My Biggest phobia was being home alone at night. Was scared of the dark. Did not like that I couldn't see what was going on outside.
Jassel Heredia (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:49:39 +0000): My biggest fear would be getting old, ever since I was I child I would look at old people and be terrified, and when I turned 20 I felt super old, i really don't know why I'm so afraid of being and old lady one day.
Jennifer Vice Metz (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:39:46 +0000): My biggest phobia is heights, no idea why or when it started, I'm just terrified of them!
Rhonda A James (Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:28:07 +0000): I'd have to say I fear getting old and feeble more than anything. I don't like the thoughts of it at all...each new gray hair I see and each new tiny crease freaks me out. So it's like being afraid of something I'm constantly seeing...sooooo not good LOL.
Isaac Salazar (Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:56:21 +0000): I'm acridophobic. I have this ridiculous fear of grasshoppers. I know they are harmless, but they scare the fuck outta me. Strangely enough, crickets don't bother me, even though they look just like grasshoppers. Weird.
Shelly Sawicki Lash Neuhouser (Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:19:19 +0000): I like ModernMan on facebook, I am afraid of heights, can't climb two step up a ladder without having to come back down, don't really know why. mneuhouser at gmail dot com.
Margot Core (Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:08:06 +0000): Rats, and worse than rats is the rat scene at the end of the film '1984' with John Hurt and the rats in the cage fitted over his face. Yike!
Margaret Primos (Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:48:11 +0000): Fire ants! Have you ever been bit by these crazy things!
John Knight (Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:07:35 +0000): biggest fear is not being able to conquer fear in the face of danger. Being a service member medic & nurse, one has to be able to be able to live with & respect fears, & not be overcome by them.good luck to all.
Will Montgomery (Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:44:55 +0000): I am truly afraid of the sight of blood!
Melissa Valmonte (Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:16:39 +0000): I don't like ferris wheels! even looking at them makes hurl urgh weird I know.
Alex Corona (Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:14:21 +0000): Speluncaphobia, fear of caves. But, it goes deeper than that. To me caves, are a nasty, tightly wound trifecta of fears. As a kid, I used to enjoy traversing the tight quarters of some tiny caves in a state park near my hometown. As I grew older and, consequently, taller/wider it became more and more difficult to maneuver the caves. On one trip, I recall getting my hips stuck between some rocks as I was crawling on my stomach. With my head lamp I could see all sorts of creepy crawly bugs and spiders around me. I panicked and writhed ferociously attempting to get myself unstuck. I smashed my head on the slate above and it knocked out my headlamp. I had trouble getting my hands to my head to asses the damage to my light. It may have just been my panicked imagination, but I could feel things crawling on me. In the dark, a suffocating sense of dread washed over me, and I was frozen. Luckily, my brother was not too far behind me and helped pull me out of my new rock coffin. It was several months before I would dare go back to the park, let alone venture into a cave. To tally it up, caves now invoke arachnophobia, claustrophobia and achluophobia. Heck, if I had been stuck alone, I may have also developed a mix of thanatophobia and isolophobia!
Grant Thornton (Mon, 14 May 2012 21:09:55 +0000): Little girls. They are the most frightening of creatures. They have a deviousness as great as older women, but they do not yet have a a comprehensive grasp on consequences. I get shivers up my spine just thinking of them. Even worse, a whole group of them together... conspiring... leering!
Mark Landis (Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:29:11 +0000): I am afraid of losing the ones I love most.

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