How do you react to horror movies?

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20 Mar 2008, 4:18 am

Horror/ Sci-Fi thriller =

[Insert freaky thing and its past here] it's trying to take over or possess [insert property, planet, etc here] and it will stop at nothing unless the main characters have a lot of ammo...or something to inflict pain... And don't forget lots of blood (red colored dye), gross looking props, etc...

Zombie = ammo fodder.

And yes a rather predictable storyline...

If you haven't guessed already, I'm not fond of them, unless there is something rather interesting... I can't think of the titles offhand. One of them being Dragonfly (which probably does not classify as a horror) I also like plots when a helpful creature helps save the character. I don't like the idea all [insert creature] are evil and there to either attack the human race or be fodder for ammo. Basically if I'm going to have to watch one, it better have a deeper theme to it than just being attacked by x creature... I like something to think about. Something with a hopeful message doesn't hurt. Round characters and sentient beings please.

I don't like being grossed out. I saw part of saw III??? It made me pretty sick to my stomach figuratively and I couldn't stand to watch more than about 30 min... There's only so much blood and guts I can stand to watch before I want to pull out my eyeballs from their sockets. (note the graphic description of disgust here)

My mom on the other hand finds horror movies entertaining. I get annoyed of hearing blood curdling screams in the background when I converse on the phone with her.

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20 Mar 2008, 4:24 am

I love them. I usually cannot sit still through them, though, as I get very excited, so the whole time I'm readjusting myself in my seat, rocking back and forth, flapping my hands, bouncing my legs, standing up and sitting down, lol.

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20 Mar 2008, 12:04 pm

I love horror movies, they fall into the 2-3 year obsession category and I even went so far as to write a college classification paper about them for my english class.

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06 Jun 2010, 10:36 pm

Horror films have been my obsession for as long as I can remember. For some reason, they make everything better in my world.

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07 Jun 2010, 12:15 am

Horror is fine as long as it's psychological and not tortureporn, I've never liked those with a lot of gore or torture in them because of empathy makes it physically tormenting to do so.

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07 Jun 2010, 8:46 am

Agreed! The torture porn fad offers nothing appealing to me. They need to stop with the Saw and Hostel type movies and their many imitators. I like escapism found in more fantastical stories.

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07 Jun 2010, 8:58 am

Horror films scare me. I do not like seeing people in movies hurt or screaming with the dramatic music, it makes me feel very bad. And paranoid.

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07 Jun 2010, 9:46 am

Horror films don't really scare me. It's just the creepy one's like the Grudge and the ring that i dont like watching. Anything horror i quite like watchin though if theres nothin else on

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07 Jun 2010, 3:11 pm

From ages 5-13, the Rancor from Star Wars (likewise with The Last Starfighter, and the raptors from Jurassic Park) scared the crap out of me . . . it wasnt until i saw the series "Movie Magic" that it finally dawned on me. Nowadays, they dont move me much . . . unless its something so horrid that it sends a chill up my spine (recently saw Hellraiser and Hellraiser II . . . that made me squirm, but not really due to the monsters).

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07 Jun 2010, 4:04 pm

I never watch them. I have quite bad ptsd and they tend to trigger flashbacks.

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07 Jun 2010, 9:52 pm

They never scare me, I just don't find fiction to be scary. I can still enjoy them but I never be scared.

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08 Jun 2010, 12:36 pm

I'm not really afraid of them or anything. It's like any other movie, actually.

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08 Jun 2010, 12:42 pm

Liverbird wrote:

I love old B horror movies. I have an overwhelming collection of them. I love old Hammer Horror films, too. New movies are all about how much blood can they fit in per square inch. But there's a lot to be said for a finely crafted psychological thriller. I too think movies benefitted from the MST3K treatment. I find it hard to watch anything now without shouting out at the screen when I find things too ridiculous to move on!

I don't think new movies with all the gore really do much. I am a sucker for a good zombie or vampire movie, though. Shaun of the Dead is one current favourite. How can you take being eaten by zombies too terribly seriously that way?

I agree. I watch very little of this type made past 1980. For people who like this stuff a search for videos on Google will let one download quite a few Al Adamson pictures.

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08 Jun 2010, 12:45 pm

I don't like them at all. I'd never go see one if you paid me. I don't like to be startled, and I don't like to see violence, or anything that usually goes on in a horror film.

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08 Jun 2010, 4:45 pm

Depends on the type of horror. Zombie films scare me more than others. And J-horrors usually have me second-guessing everything for quite a while afterwards. Most of the time I enjoy them. In fact the more they scare me the more I want to watch them again (hence the reason why I own all the original Grudge films)

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08 Jun 2010, 5:20 pm

Depends on how cheesy the horror movie is. If it's really cheaply made, it's more unintentionally funny than anything. But if the movie is serious and involves blood/zombies/chainsaws/screams/a lot of scary moments, I refuse to watch it. So mostly I can't stand them.

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