Thinking about movie stereotypes about ie: people who collect hair, I think a distinction should be made between those described as merely "scary" and those des

Thinking about movie stereotypes about ie: people who collect hair, I think a distinction should be made between those described as merely "scary" and those described as "creepy". Take a horror movie. If said collector is a recluse who's history nobody knows about, they're described as scary. If they're out and about, visiting neighbors, trying to relate and engage with people, they are much more likely to be described as creepy. As such, bringing it back to everyday behavior, I think the critical aspect that determines whether something is creepy or not is whether there is a mismatch between what the person is explicitly informing they want to do (be a friendly neighbor), and whether the person on the receiving end suspects there are ulterior motives (they want to collect hair).