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01-18-2010, 09:46 PM
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Because I find them really disturbing and I'd rather watch the most sappy chick flick ever made than these grossly twisted movies.
The last thing I enjoy is being grossed out and freaked out.
So why? I just can't understand it at all.
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01-18-2010, 09:52 PM
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01-18-2010, 09:55 PM
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01-18-2010, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by tom once dead  +1 | +1. That said I don't think I've actually seen a real horror movie. all I've ever seen that so be similar was all this gore-porn stuff like Final Destination, Saw, and Hostel and they all seemed stupid to me. The scariest thing to ever appear on my screen was the game Dead Space. That game is fear defined.
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01-18-2010, 10:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Tampa, Florida, US | | | The first Saw was a great movie I thought, after that they just got stupid.
If you want a real horror movie though, you've gotta watch something where the killer gets away, where there is no closure. Movies like that creep me the F out.
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01-18-2010, 10:30 PM
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01-18-2010, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by ::::BASSIST:::: Because I find them really disturbing and I'd rather watch the most sappy chick flick ever made than these grossly twisted movies.
The last thing I enjoy is being grossed out and freaked out.
So why? I just can't understand it at all. | Omg finally someone who feels like me..
Its not that I get scared but I litterally get pissed off when I watch movies where people get beat and killed and such. I have been known to get up and throw things/leave. |
01-18-2010, 10:31 PM
|  | I make metal look good. | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Baxley, GA | | | Gore movies and slasher flicks are just a sub-genre of the horror overarch.
A real horror movie is spectacular. Just watch 95% of the Japanese horror movies, they're awesome.
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01-18-2010, 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Let It Fall Omg finally someone who feels like me..
Its not that I get scared but I litterally get pissed off when I watch movies where people get beat and killed and such. I have been known to get up and throw things/leave. | So... why do you keep going? 
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01-18-2010, 10:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Chico, California | | | ^^^ Yep....horror movies these days are more like "how many heads can we show being chopped off to be scary"? Stupid. What ever happened to scaring people using the plot and good acting like The Shining IMO.
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01-18-2010, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by stinger12345 ^^^ Yep....horror movies these days are more like "how many heads can we show being chopped off to be scary"? Stupid. What ever happened to scaring people using the plot and good acting like The Shining IMO. | Fantastic movie.
I think Alien (the first one) was another awesome horror movie, cause you never really saw the beast until the end.
The Exorcist, imo though, is one of the best horror movies ever made.
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01-18-2010, 11:11 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | Unfortunately, a lot of great horror films suffer from age: Alien is pretty dated--I love it to death, but most of my enjoyment comes out of Ridley Scott's direction and the production design.
A few films for you (and anyone else interested) to check out that have both aged well and are far removed from
the new model of horror:
Roman Polanski's The Tenant (1976) - my favorite horror film, and besides that, all three of Polanski's "Apartment Trilogy" (Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, and The Tenant) are horror classics.
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Diabolique (1955) - The original, and still quite creepy.
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) - Already mentioned, but worth repeating
David Fincher's SE7EN (1995) -More of a thriller, but with some Horror elements
Tomas Alfredson's Let The Right One In (2008) - the best vampire flick of the last 20 years.
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01-18-2010, 11:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | | Real good horror movies don't need gore or violence to make you **** in your pants.
Just look for "slender man" in youtube and you'll know what I mean. It's the expectation of something scary that makes you pump adrenaline and that is why people like to watch them.
Also, liking gore movies don't mean you like to see gore in real life. I liked the Hostel movies for the shock value. They were very bad movies, but hell it was sooo over the top it was getting funny.
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01-18-2010, 11:37 PM
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01-18-2010, 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by ::::BASSIST:::: Because I find them really disturbing and I'd rather watch the most sappy chick flick ever made than these grossly twisted movies.
The last thing I enjoy is being grossed out and freaked out.
So why? I just can't understand it at all. | Because not everybody is like you? |
01-19-2010, 12:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan | | | It's a lot more fun when you watch them with friends. My buddy hosts a movie night every weekend and we watch horror movies. It is our own Mystery Science Theater 3000. |
01-19-2010, 12:15 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upland, CA. | | A list of some good ones:
Takashi Miike's The Audition
Let the Right One In (as previously mentioned)
Takashi Miike's Imprint
The Descent
Se7en (previously mentioned, and GREAT)
The Art of the Devil - undergound horror from Thailand, great stuff
Clive Barker's Book of Blood
Of course if you're completely burned out on the genre, may I suggest Shaun of the Dead, the Evil Dead Trilogy, and Peter Jackson's Dead Alive? 
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01-19-2010, 12:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Joey3313 Because not everybody is like you? | That why I am trying to understand what the appeal is. Of course its because people watch them to be scared and grossed out, but I just dont understand why some people enjoy those things.
If these same people are grossed out and freaked out "in real life," do they enjoy that sensation too? I just get disturbed/angry/upset by such things.
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01-19-2010, 12:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Prince Edward Island | | | I love them, the more gruesome, gore filled and sick the better. After I turned 15 and got bored of mainstream horror movies I got into real horror flicks and the masters of the genre such as Fulci, Argento, etc. Now that I'm older I can literally sit down with popcorn and watch snuff films for hours, etc. You think hollywood makes you disturbed/angry/upset? Check out films like "120 Days of Sodom" or "Guinea Pig: The flower of flesh and blood".
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01-19-2010, 12:36 AM
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