I’m a big horror fan. But I’m a SELECTIVE horror fan. Most of it is an eye-rolling predictable completely UN-scary mess. But a select few horror/thriller movies have really scared me. The Exorcist being atop the horror pillar. It’s funny how subjective horror is.. some like the slasher flicks, some need a lot of gore, some prefer the psychological thrillers, and some like those new Saw torture movies. For me, it’s a strange blend of the supernatural, ghostly, demonic, suspenseful type movies. You know, things that I logically know aren’t real and couldn’t happen to me,
…. right?
Sign me up for a good psychological thriller any day! 😀
while you’re at it, sign me up too!
I now a very scary horror story: It’s about a planet in which the inhabitants have to drink some sort of transparent liquid AND eat plant and/or animal tissue to survive, which leads them to fight each other over who eats who and who gets to do it first.
Nothing says being grown up like acting childish!
I agree! Now, who’s got the flaming poo bag?
When I was younger, I liked scary movies with lots of blood and gore. However, I lost interest in the gore factor over the years and just want an actual story that allows me to feel what the characters are feeling. I’m naturally a curious person. I first got into blood and gore to prove to myself that I wouldn’t be freaked out by it. Now that I already know this, there isn’t that much of a point to seeking blood and gore.
I totally relate. I’m over the blood & gore. I never bothered with the Saw movies. Like you said Rainey, give me a story, deep characters, something that will get inside and creep me out.
I prefer sci-fi horror movies (Alien, Event Horizon, Pandorum etc). Everything scary is better when it happens in space.
OOooo.. then I bet Gravity is on your to-see list! That looks too scary for me… something about the infinity of space (or depth of the ocean) terrifies me, and not in the good, fun way.
I actually had not heard of it before now. It looks interesting but Ithe biggest problem I have with it is that I see no way in which the main character could conceivably survive. Good horror has to at least hold out the hope that a character can make it, even if it shamelessly dashes it at the end (as so many do).
That would depend: Some horror movies would up the suspense based not on whether or not someone will survive, but on how and when they will die!
Horror can kill. 😛
I wonder why that is??? We now it’s only actors & special effects but it still terrifies us