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I have experienced too many stresses and horrible situations in life to feel the need to get my fill of being horrified by a movie. I never understood why people felt the need to be scared by something. I tried to get into the entertainment aspect of horror flicks, but most horror films just make me laugh or put evil visions in my head which are un-neccesary. I have never been motivated in a positive way by a horror movie.
Who else hates horror movies? Anyone like them and care to explain why they are your cup of tea?
I can't bring myself to watch them if something terrible has happened lately, like someone I love dying.
Other than that, not only do I love watching horror, I love reading horror, and I love writing horror. I think I got it from my mother, who also enjoyed them. When I was a kid, starting in about third or fourth grade, I was allowed to stay up and watch some of them, like this clunker The Dead Don't Die. My parents did a pretty good job of making me understand that movies are not real, so I was able to compartmentalize and never had nightmares. It was actually probably a miracle because I was a bit timid in other areas of life--not big on riding my bike as fast as I could, climbing to the top of the tree, jumping down off of things, etc. I still don't like to ski fast. But escape into a story that didn't pose any real threat to life or limb? Sign me up.
Then, when I got older, I found horror movies to be a convenient way to lean on my date and be all girly.
P.S. I was into vampires long before that sparkly teenybopper crap.
All the new horror movies suck. Its not that I hate them, its just that they are not good.
They are either torture porn or something with a haunted house. Same thing every time.
I hate BAD movies, period, regardless of the genre. I don't like slice and dice gore movies that are messy just for the sake of shock and awe. I do like a well made horror film like Alien or The Orphanage, really creepy films that horrify you implicitly instead of explicitly.
Slice-n-dice is my term for them as well. They are a form of pornography that is far worse than sexual pornography, IMO. Many of them also conform to the standard Hollywood restrictions, which make them even more perverse. Kids who are engaging in secret sex are most likely to be killed. Those are the most innocent and just starting to "stray" from the right wing moral path. Where is the horror film where Freddie terrorizes bankers or Wall Street traders? You'll never see them because teens have no legal protection and the last two would pull the plug on anyone who dared to threaten them, even in jest.
Who else hates horror movies? Anyone like them and care to explain why they are your cup of tea?
I like them. I find them entertaining but not scary because the situations are often times very unrealistic. I saw "The Collection" over the weekend and it was completely ridiculous and gratuitously bloody, but still somewhat entertaining. Only a handful of horror movies actually scare me and this was not one of them.
I'm not a fan. Not because I don't think it can be fun to be scared, but because they pretty much all just seem silly to me. I don't know why, but I just can't take them seriously.
Decades ago, when a horror movie had mystery and suspense that caused the "white knuckle" effect, they were really great. But now, they are just made to disgust the viewer. I want to be scared when I watch a horror movie - I don't want to gag while watching a horror movie.
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