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Togiraikonoka
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| i havent been diagnosed with aspergers but show quite a few traits but i love watching horror films cause of the gore/suspense/sudden jumps cause it gives me a bit of adrenilin rush and cause of the scares and twists |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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The typical horror films don't really scare me that badly, I just never really found most of them interesting enough to get into them. However many independant and cult films scare the hell outta me.
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LinnaeusCat
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| Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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I can't watch 90% of horror films because I end up reliving parts of them in my memory for weeks. No way.
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Veresae
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| Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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Most horror movies are complete trash. If not for that it might be my favorite genre. As it is, no, I can't watch most horror movies, because most are unbearably stupid!
I want good stories and characters and dialogue and acting and creativity and visuals, just like in any other film genre. |
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zen_mistress
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Im so glad to see this thread and realise I am not the only one! I hate seeing horrible images. In the 80s horror movies were silly and fun and had ridiculous special effects that didnt look real. Nowadays the special effects are often so real that I feel I am watching the real thing... ugh.
A couple of years ago I was in the cinema watching a horror film and I ended up walking out, I was so upset. I stood in the lobby for half an hour waiting for the film to end and my friends to come out.
I did watch Cloverfield last year though, and I was ok after that... sat through the whole thing though I hid in my friend's scarf a lot. I think it depends on the movie.
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Le_Samourai
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I've never been much of a horror fan. Its not that I don't like being scared or anything, its just that its a genre of film that doesn't really generate any enthusiasm in me. The only horror films that I enjoyed were the Hellraiser, Romero's Dead films and the Evil Dead trilogy, and even those were more like comedies than straight up horror films.
I do have a love for the old school Universal monster films like Frankenstein and The Wolf Man, but I consider those to be dramas with a heavy dose of the supernatural.
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Think I'll revive this thread since we just had the Halloween horror movie season. 
I kind of like suspense movies where things jump out. But I have issues with gore, torture, etc. I can deal with normal movie blood and stuff because its not usually that realistic or creative, but if it is, then sometimes the images or thoughts just pop into my head at random times and make me feel sicked-out for months or years to come! If I'm going to put up with that, I have to feel that the rest of the movie will be worth it.  |
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gbollard
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| Le_Samourai wrote: | I've never been much of a horror fan. Its not that I don't like being scared or anything, its just that its a genre of film that doesn't really generate any enthusiasm in me. The only horror films that I enjoyed were the Hellraiser, Romero's Dead films and the Evil Dead trilogy, and even those were more like comedies than straight up horror films.
I do have a love for the old school Universal monster films like Frankenstein and The Wolf Man, but I consider those to be dramas with a heavy dose of the supernatural. |
Hellraiser - Comedy? what were you taking?
The Evil Dead films were comedies.
Hellraiser has a brilliant story (the short story by Clive Barker - "The Hellbound Heart" is even better). The great thing about Hellraiser is that like the recent "The Mist", it's message is that there are some pretty bad things in Hell but nothing compares to people when it comes to true evil.
Romeo's dead films have some interesting social commentary - particularly the last survivor or Night of the Living dead, what happens to him and the police reaction to it.
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Giftorcurse
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For some reason, my mother won't allow me to watch horror films in any way, shape or form. Even slasher films. Either she thinks I'm perpetually a toddler, or she's just an overprotective b***h.
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| Giftorcurse wrote: | | For some reason, my mother won't allow me to watch horror films in any way, shape or form. Even slasher films. Either she thinks I'm perpetually a toddler, or she's just an overprotective b***h. |
Parents often get overprotective about media thinking that watching violence promotes it. It's not true.
Remember that at 15, (perhaps a little older), the last few generations weren't simply watching violence, they were actively (consciously and often willingly) participating in it - and participation was mandated by the Government. (Vietnam, WW2, WW1 ... and all with conscription).
I find that children who are "sheltered" grow up to be more naive than their peers, have more nightmares due to difficulty determining reality from fantasy and have more difficulty understanding subculture references - which affects their relationships with their peers.
No... It's not scientific, it's observation and I'll accept that it could be biased. It's just my take on things.
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pbcoll
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Contrary to what my avatar may make you think, I agree with Veresae that most horror films are trashy and uninteresting. They don't usually affect me much, with some exceptions, like the first time I watched 28 Days Later, some of whose scenes resembled my childhood nightmares - I much later watched a part of it again and it had no effect.
I've gone through stages of liking horror - when I was about eleven I liked trashy horror films, then lost interest in the genre, then some years ago I went through a stage of reading a lot of horror (Poe, Barker).
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GoonSquad
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| CleverKitten wrote: | I can't watch horror movies, but for the exact opposite reason that you do.
I'm too detached. Horror movies is so boring, unrealistic, and predictable that I just cannot get into it.
I remember I sat through the duration of The Grudge, and I was waiting for the 'scary part' the entire time. I was very bored, and almost falling asleep while everyone else was jumping and cowering.
When the movie ended, I was like, "That's it?" I was so disappointed, after everyone else said it was the scariest movie they had ever seen!  |
This is me exactly. What passes for horror bores me to tears.
What I can't watch is anything showing someone actually being hurt or killed, even if it is not graphic. Stuff like that will upset me almost to the point of a panic attack...
Morbid curiosity led me to watch the beheading of Nick Berg... something I still have nightmares about and regret to this day.
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DNForrest
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| It depends on the type of horror movie and how wells it's made. The two sub-genres that get to me are horror movies involving rotting demon girls (The Ring, The Grudge, etc.) and aliens (Signs, E.T.). Other genres I quite enjoys if they're made well, like zombie movies (the Night of the Living Dead series are about the only good ones), vampire movies (Let the Right One In is king), and psychological horror movies (The Thing, and Sunshine to an extent). I'm neutral when it comes to most slasher-movies, pretty much the only reason to go to those is for the fan-service. Now if it's flat-out stupid (Dark Water), it doesn't bother me in the least, except for the sucking. |
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raisedbyignorance
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I've watched a few and managed to get over the shock. I'm just not into them because of how poorly theyre made.
The only kind of horror movies I do enjoy are post apocalyptic films.
But most of these films I've read the plot in advance so I already know what's coming. Pathetic huh? |
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LostInBed
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The only movies I CAN'T watch(at least by myself, and even in the daytime) are the original Carpenter slasher flicks(i.e. the{original five, or is it six} halloween movies). The predictability is what does me in. Contrary to what some of you are probably thinking, I don't dislike the predictability, it's just the anticipation after I've forseen that a characetr will be attacked/killed, ie. waiting for the "when" moment to occur that scares the living bejesus out of me. I mean The Return of Micheal Myers when the little girl climbed into the laundry chute to hide from him, as soon as Micheal walked into the room and started towards it I had to turn off the movie and I was watching it in the middle of the afternoon. Now that's pathetic.
Oh and for anyone who hasn't yet seen the Rob Zombie version and wants to understand why Micheal centered in on Laurie Strode rent it, it does a whole section of the plot when Micheal's a kid. And also touche on the whole mask part of the character.
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