Can you watch horror films?

[Rose65]

I find it curious how some people, like my husband, can remain apparently unmoved by the most ghastly scenes on TV. He even laughs!
Me - I just cannot take beyond a certain level and refuse to inflict such stuff on my mind. I hide behind a cushion or cover my eyes! We were recently watching what we assumed was a science fiction film and suddenly it became an absolute horror full of blood and evil. I switched off.

When I was young and knew no better, I did watch certain well known horrors, like The Living Dead and The Exorcist. Those images are still imprinted in my mind and I believe it cannot be good for anyone.

I do like strong dramas, such as historical, where battles and murders happen, but only if truly part of the story and only up to a certain line.

So, are you a fan of horror films or squeamish like me?

 

[Aunt Bea]

I don’t care for gratuitous nudity, sex, or violence but if it makes sense as a part of the plot or story I’m fine with it.

I also enjoy some of the silly old horror comedies that usually appear on late night television in the days leading up to Halloween.

 

[Tish]

I am fine with them as long as no animals are hurt in them, but to be 100% honest, I find most of them boring.

 

[Paladin1950]

I still like watching the old corny ones that I watched as a child. Not the newer violent ones with computer graphics.

 

[hawkdon]

Yep, and corny season starts very soon. saw adv last eve about
good ole Michael the hockey mask coming soon hahahahaha....

 

[George1959]

When I was young and knew no better, I did watch certain well known horrors, like The Living Dead and The Exorcist. Those images are still imprinted in my mind and I believe it cannot be good for anyone.

In my opinion you are right with your assumption. As I was much younger I've watched horror movies like John Carpenter's "Halloween" or "Friday, the 13th" and so on. But I never watched movies full of blood like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Now at my age I don't watch horror movies anymore, they just don't interest me.

 

[Paladin1950]

In my opinion you are right with your assumption. As I was much younger I've watched horror movies like John Carpenter's "Halloween" or "Friday, the 13th" and so on. But I never watched movies full of blood like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Now at my age I don't watch horror movies anymore, they just don't interest me.

I finally saw the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre about 30 years after it came out. It wasn't all that bad. I never saw a lot of blood or body parts in the movie. It seemed everything was left to your imagination.

 

[George1959]

I finally saw the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre about 30 years after it came out. It wasn't all that bad. I never saw a lot of blood or body parts in the movie. It seemed everything was left to your imagination.

I didn't watch it, but from the title I presumed this. Thus you're right. But I stay away from movies with such or similar titles anyway.

 

[hollydolly]

Nope..I'm squeamish like you Rose..I can't watch them..not at all. I have nightmares like a child if I do....

 

[papa tiger]

Svengoolie occasionally. I like the sagas. Outlander, Hell on Wheels, stuff like that. Don't watch all that much TV either.
100's of HD stations on the Smart TV. Sometimes a Black & White, like "Blackboard Jungle." Glen Ford, Anne Francis, Jamie Farr.

 

[Nathan]

Horror movies are fun, most are hard to take seriously enough to become genuinely frightened.

 

[Pinky]

Knowing how the gore is made, due to having a Props Man brother .. I don't scare easily. More often than not, I'm figuring what was used to make a certain effect

edit to add:
I enjoy psychological thrillers.
Loved "Silence of the Lambs"

 

[dilettante]

But you miss out on some hilarious comedies:

 

[chic]

I don't watch gory films because I don't like buckets of blood and nasties or torture and cruelty. There's enough of that in real life.

 

[HoneyNut]

I don't like the feeling of scary "suspense" and since horror movies are full of that, I don't like horror movies. Sometimes I enjoy the horror spoof movies a little. Mostly I like comedy. Though there are a number of disaster movies I've enjoyed.

 

[StarSong]

Horror, violent, scary or extremely suspenseful movies and books make me unhappy and anxious so I give them a wide berth.

 

[ElCastor]

I can watch horror films, but why would I want to?

 

[Knight]

When watching horror movies I look for dumb stuff. Like a killer attacking women on campus. Then you see a lone woman walking down the dark tree lined street on campus.

Geeze I wonder what's going to happen?

 

[Paladin1950]

I stay away from zombie movies, ever since George Romero turned them into flesh eating cannibals.

 

[MaidMarian]

I love them except for the gory violent ones.,I have a list of my favorites that I watch every Halloween including: The Birds, Psycho, The Rear window ( can’t beat Hitchcock!) I love An American Werewolf in London, The original Halloween, The Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

 

[KSav]

I like horror movies, but I hate blood and gore, which today cuts out about 90% of them. I love the older stuff, like Creature From the Black Lagoon, etc.

 

[StarSong]

Killer attacking women is not dumb stuff! It's horrific.

You: "Then you see a lone woman walking down the dark tree lined street on campus.
Geeze I wonder what's going to happen?"

You fantasize about this????

I think he meant that the plot lines are ridiculously predictable.

 

[Knight]

Killer attacking women is not dumb stuff! It's horrific.

You: "Then you see a lone woman walking down the dark tree lined street on campus.
Geeze I wonder what's going to happen?"

You fantasize about this????

Absolutely NOT
Would you agree that as a movie plot a campus killer then having a woman walk alone down a dark campus street is a really dumb script?

 

[Murrmurr]

I liked *some* older horror films, like The Shining, The Fly, An American Werewolf in London.

It wasn't til the late 90s and into the 2000s when horror films had to have a lot of blood, guts, ripping flesh, and extreme torture to be considered horrifying. Thinking about it, maybe that's progress. Maybe audiences became less naive and not so easily horrified. Or maybe it just got easy for sickos and psychos to break into film making.

 

[hearlady]

Yes. Some old ones. No slasher, evil, stuff.