Why do you watch Horror Movies?

I don't understand wanting to see horror movies. I always feel like they're either supernatural and therefore just not scary at all,

or too realistic and therefore something that probably shouldn't be put out there to give dangerous people bad ideas.

 

I like 'em cause I never get to family reunions anymore.

 

I myself don't like about 95% of horror movies. I like a good one, I just find most tepid.

1408 was pretty hard.

 

When they are made right it keeps me on the edge of my seat like no other movie genre.

Its also fun if you've seen the new horror film in theaters and you go again with some friends and right before the scary part happens as the tension is growing you scream like a 13year old girl when the theater is dead silent. You will scare the shit out of whoever you sitting next to. You might get punched later.

 

I do not like most of them because I think they are negative for the mind.

but

henry: the portrait of a cerial killer was a really good one because the actor were really good in it.

watch this 5min. clip from the movie. for some reason the acting in this scene makes it funny. tell me what you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT6poEUcqaU"]HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER ,1 (WARNING, EXTREMEMELY GRAPHIC) - YouTube

also the original halloween movie with mike myers was a good movie.

 

i watch horror movies because i wanna see what happens next

 

i don't know. i watch them, but why? i just don't know.

i've seen very few horror movies that are genuinely scary. i still enjoy them, but i just like the story for the story, not for the fact that it scares me.

 

I watch cause If Ima gonna be raped like rag doll, least I wanna be able to see what it may look like.. case I get kicked it head, and Im out cold.. ..

 

I have a thing for Zombie movies, I think because I've always had a hope there would be some sort of viral outbreak or other phenomenon which would have similar results.

Yea' I know, I'm odd.

:cheers2:

 

why do you wanna sit on some hill with a machine gun and shoot down zombies all day ? it would be fun at first perhaps but I think it would get old after a while.

 

Not so much for the initial rampage, just more for the peace and quiet once it was over, or at least substantially quelled. But I think I'd opt for a sniper rifle and a good handgun as long as I wasnt alone.

Of course the idea of barricading myself along with a group of people inside a Walmart has a certain appeal (PS I have dibbs on the pringles, beef jerky and the 7.62x54 ammo.) Ideally some sort of mall, butted up next to the gun store, not across the street from it.

 

i only like friday the thirteenth movies...reminds me of my childhood

 

wouldn't work. walmarts are 24/7 now, so you wouldn't be able to find an empty walmart to barricade into. best case scenario, the zombie apocalypse happens at 3 a.m. and there's only about 50 people inside walmart to zombify. and of course since it's walmart, you can only tell the difference in about 10 of them.

 

Yea, I could handle being holed up in a Walmart with 6 other people.
(Figuring at least 4 potential survivors wouldn't make the final cut thanks to hasty judgment in the heat of the moment.)

 

To quote Stephen King


"People go to horror flicks to prove "that we are not afraid", "to establish our feelings of essential normality", "to have fun", and to vent our insane side"

"The viewers of horror movies are delighting in the pain and agony depicted in the characters; much the same way that the french proletariat watched the beheadings of the aristocracy during the french revolution"

Hotwater

 

the same reason you have watched sex and the city like a thousand times

because we like totally enjoy them...

 

As far as venting our insane side goes, does anyone think it feeds our insane side?

 

For some yes, but for the vast majority it simply satisfies our inner desire to see others hurt and in pain.


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haha i truly love you bc i truly despise sex and the city- is it legal since the show is expired to say i fantasized about columbining it?

anyway, lol, i don't enjoy gory horror movies, but I LOVE anythhing creepy, bizarre, surreal, - a nightmareish movie i guess you could say- example that would fall into horror- anyone seen:
Audition - a cult horror modern classic by Japanese director Takashi Miike?
Hotel by director Mike Figgis
I did enjoy the Shining- it didn't follow the book but Kubrick's surrealism is hypnotic and it's why i love David Lynch movies
Crash by david cronenberg- that's almost like a horror flick in a way- it's a love or hate film - it's in my top 10 of all time

and someone mentioned Henry portrait of a serial killer- that was EXCELLENT! there are scores of fascinating foreign horror films too, and i must say, i did love silence of the lambs, but i thought every sequel and prequel and whatnot to it was garbage- but omg don't get me started on movies i'm a total movie junkie- unless it's mainstream- i don't know anything about blockbuster movies lol

 

Most horror and action movies do, I agree with you- an Austrian Director, Michael Haneke, made a movie about that called Funny Games, and he redirected it in English so that he could release it in America, and in interviews he directly talked about directors like Quentin Tarantino who glamorized violence and gore in movies, and how not only desensitized our nation has become towards violence and brutality as comedic and heroic, but it's become an expectation; and we captolize on it. The movie was nearly banned and Michael Haneke is pretty much the most hated director in America. I say he's the one of the bravest directors and people in general, and his movies are absolutely genius, and so bold and intelligent in their messages. you should definately check him out- all but the american version of Funny Games are in subtitles, but it's worth it.