Aspie Theory - "Horror', 'Sci-Fi' or Regular Escapism?

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Maybe someone can help me identify these movies I remember from my childhood that I cannot recall the names to.

One was about a man who killed? his wife? and buried her in a building/barn? near his house---maybe on a farm. There was a painting in his house of the building/barn he buried her in. As time progresses, he notices the painting changes. The door of the building/barn in the painting is open, then a figure appears in the opening, then the figure approaches the house, then there is a knock on his door. It is his deceased wife.

Another film that is very sketchy to me was in a business building or hotel. Some people get on the elevator, and although the building had only 12 floors? the elevator went to the 13th floor. The doors opened and the people were in a witches' coven or something like that. This is real sketchy to me, but I remember the film and wish to know what it was.

Post-apocalyptic for me, I guess that counts as sci-fi. The more realistic the better. But I'm not a zombie fan other than for humor.

I prefer fantasy, but the reasoning is the same.

sitting back watching myself go through all of those and then some.

Growing up, I was into primarily fantasy and to a lesser degree Sci-Fi. I think it was a great escape for me from the difficulities and confusion I had with the real world, and I really found most things in life uninteresting at the time. I ended up creating my own fantasy worlds usually with an anti-hero being the protagonist. I have never gotten how we are supposed to lack imagination. I found most people to be unimaginative.

Later, I became more interested in horror, especially the old 70's era movies which relied more on atmosphere and mood to spook you rather than the current stuff's dependence on special effects and gore factor.

I've always been drawn to horror. When I was around 10/11 years old I was obsessed with the film Carrie, because I related to her being the weird outcast that nobody liked and I wished that I had her telekinetic powers so that I could get my revenge and make people afraid of me so they wouldn't f**k with me anymore. TV shows X Files and Tales From The Crypt also engrossed me at that age. Although I enjoy sci-fi with a strong element of horror, I have always found stuff like Star Trek, Babylon 5, Star Wars and anything set in space really boring and I can't really understand it.

As an adult, horror is just a massive form of escapism - I often ponder why it is that I am so attracted to it, and I think perhaps it's because fear is such a dominant emotion for me - I'm afraid of people, crowds, phones, work, taking ill, all kinds of foods, etc. that NT's think is really stupid and I think for that reason I find I can relate to the films really well, in a world where I generally don't relate to very much at all.

Where's fantasy in that poll?
It's a genre often read for that very reason.

I love fanatsy and have always loved it. I love to be led into a world that's so different from ours and where there are so many different possibilities.

And yes, I use it to escape the everyday life.

Sci fi for me. As a teen, I couldn't get enough of the stuff. Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, etc. I collected so much stuff based on these franchises and could tell you the most obscure facts about each.

I started on science fiction when I was about seven years old. My mom subscribed to -Fantastic- and -Amazing- the two leading pulp sci-fi magazines of the day (back in the 1940s). I graduated to hard cover and paper backs over time. Sci-fi has been part of my reading for just about my whole reading life.

ruveyn

My absolute escape is sci fi! I love cyborgs, androids, super combat machines, and the like!

For a long time I was obssessed with gory movies, but I believe Mr. Atwood states that this fixation on morbid things and death is from depression in aspies, which I have major. I still have the morbid fixation, but now I like it better in comic books and stylized manga, not Hollywood super-realistic movies.

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From my earliest childhood until the present day, I have always been obsessed with horror. In preparation for my AS evaluation, parsing through all my old keepsakes and school records that my mother had kept, I came upon many drawings I'd done of monsters, ghosts, and miscellaneous creepy things from age three or four on up. I've enjoyed most of the aforementioned films in this thread. Btw, Hammer has just been revived from the dead... Their first "new" film is Let Me In (the remake of the contemporary Swedish classic). Horror has always been my constant special interest whilst others have come and gone, it's been the one constant to keep me sane and functioning. I own complete, catalogued runs of horror related publications (bagged, boarded, and boxed of course). I have noticed recently, upon retrospection, that there is a direct correllation between my stress levels and how much time I spend watching scary/spooky movies. I surmise that not only is it an escapism, but probably more so, a form of demented therapy for me. The only types of films in my beloved genre that I do not care for are the "torture porn" types... like Saw I - XV and the Hostel films.