It’s the opposite for me.
A guy with a knife or chainsaw isn’t scary because that’s a thing that can happen in real life, so you’d either run away or fight or get stabbed.
An unseen presence lurking in the woods by a house or in an old room is scary because you can’t definitely prove either way and it taps into the primordial fear of the dark.
Zombies are just an adrenaline rush
you better.
so guy chasing you with a knife: scary.
but if the guy turns out to be an alien or a ghost: no longer scary.
got it.
Impossible so not scary.
Although there are some good science fiction films with Aliens.
Ghosts are my biggest gripe. Hauntings and mediums and ouija boards are just not scary to me.
But you weren’t aware he was a ghost/alien.
Improbable, but perfectly possible. Aliens anyway.
Yeah I should have stipulated I mean ghosts.
My wife believes in ghosts and fortune tellers and shit. I struggled to look past it but I can forgive her.
It’s not as simple as that to me, gratuitous scares without any story to back them up or just torture porn type stuff like Saw or something has no appeal to me as it’s just delighting in someone being in distress, clever horror stories though with a growing sense of unease along with believable ghosts or aliens are great though. The Thing would be an example of this.
I like that stupid horror stuff like the hostel and saw.
Us was very good.
The Rob Zombie films were good, especially his remake of Halloween.
This is amazing.
The first Saw film is underrated. It’s actually quite far removed from the torture porn series it became
I’ve still never been brave enough watch From Beyond after seeing the box in a video shop as a kid.
Watched Predestination the other night and it’s still annoying the shit out of me that into a sci-fi, time travel film they managed to add an extra element that is more impossible than time travel!
fucking hell.
first film i actually screamed ‘WHAT!?’ at the tv.
It’s the whole chicken, egg thing! Argh!!!
classic!
I watched all those films from that era as a kid. Our sort of cousin worked at the video shop and I would give her lists of horror to get out for us.
There were loads of silly ones that looked cool from the cover, like Fright Night and House. House was part comedy though. One of the silliest was one called spookies, loved it but it was so shite. I think you can watch it on YT now.
I never found horror that scary because none of it looked real, you can separate entertainment from horrific imagery. Now i’m older, I find real life gore hard to watch.
Ukrainian hammer murders especially. That recent dude you blew his head off was a weird one. Still, I find myself morbidly clicking if the direct link is right in front of me.
Ghosts though, that’s kinda scary because you just don’t know. I mean, I don’t necessarily believe in things like that but I have witnessed a couple of things I can’t explain.
Hugo, do you know what happens to us when we die?
Fav film in last 10 years was probably Interstellar.
That film was GREAT.
