Can you watch the gore of Horror Movies?

PamfromTx said:
No, I cover my eyes. I'm amazed with people in the medical field who work day after day witnessing all kinds of yucky stuff. I can't stand to watch them draw my blood; I turn away. And I hate the sight of phlegm.

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Same here. I would keep my distance if I saw a bad accident. Ring the ambulance from afar.
Do not want to see innards that should be innards that have become outards. :oops:
 
As a pre-teen I grew up watching Chiller Theater. It was a Saturday night ritual, plopped in front of the TV set with Jiffy Pop popcorn and ready for two hours of mildly scary delight! Of course, horror movies were different back then, featuring cheesy, non-graphic limited budget movies that took forever to deliver rather unconvincing special effects. A few throw-away characters died, but never graphically and always without liberal depictions of blood and gore. The actresses tended to scream a lot, but the resourceful and courageous males would always find a way to defeat the monster(s) from another world. Typical faire might include flicks like The Crawling Eye.

As Stephen King observed, true horror is a sublime emotion hard to achieve. Much of what passes for horror these days are slasher flicks that achieve gross-outs but nothing more.- - Gimme that old-time horror! 🙀

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PamfromTx said:
What is strange is that all thru high school... I had set my mind on nursing school. o_O
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yep me too..I started training as a nurse while I was still at school.. ever Monday I spent on the wards doing extremely menial jobs which of course is a huge percentage of hospital work. I couldn't stand it.. hated every minute of it... I just wanted to look after people, I didn't want all the messy stuff... :sick:
 
hollydolly said:
yep me too..I started training as a nurse while I was still at school.. ever Monday I spent on the wards doing extremely menial jobs which of course is a huge percentage of hospital work. I couldn't stand it.. hated every minute of it... I just wanted to look after people, I didn't want all the messy stuff... :sick:
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Like people on bedpans or vomit all over the floor, someone peeing or pooping the beds. I've seen it back when we had two-person rooms. Now it is a single patient in a room.

I use to like gory movies but now no way.
 
I don't mind seeing blood but certain scenes just get too gory. I even encounter this watching shows like Grey's Anatomy and 9-1-1. If scenes get too gory in those shows, I close my eyes. The horror movies of today seem to focus on gore rather than a decent story line, so I don't watch them.
 
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Have seen enough in life, that it's not something I want to see for entertainment, but there are a few exceptions. Love Tarantino's stuff, because it's so well done. I think "The Night of the Living Dead" was the scariest thing I saw back in the day. Mike
 
The contrast between horror movies when I was young & now is mind blowing. I don't have a problem with gore I know it's not real but I appreciate the skill it takes to present a product that seems real.
To cite a difference. Years ago when the rifleman had to shoot a bad guy there was no blood & the bad guy fell over clutching where ever he was shot. Now the bad guy bleeds, you can see the bullet hole opening & is driven back by the impact of being shot.
 
No. I'm not big on horror movies anyway. I'm not fond of October when they are all over the TV. I'd rather see Christmas Vacation over and over.
 
Am a sci-fi fan but even when younger avoided horror and slasher movies for the sake of reaction to gore. Due to brain neural plasticity, one becomes what one emotionally experiences and acts upon. One becomes what one does even if secretly. Fill one's brain with garbage and don't be surprised with the result. Same reason I avoid a list of other things popular with many.
 
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