Is there anyone who either absolutely can't stand horror movies/being scared or absolutely love being scared? I'm working on an article and wanted to speak to some students. Gracias!

10/28/2007 11:37:03 AM

There's only one problem with your premise: none of the horror movies these days are even remotely scary. They're just slash-orific or rely upon gore and cheap scares to elicit a reaction from the audience. Yeah, some movies have their genuinely creepy moments, but I've yet to see a film that truly makes me afraid.

10/28/2007 11:44:02 AM

What's the last film you saw that genuinely scared you?

10/28/2007 12:00:52 PM

Dawn of the Dead

10/28/2007 12:06:09 PM

Those would be the Nightmare on Elm Street movies that I'd try to watch as a little kid.

My older brothers would be watching them and they'd tell me to leave the room because I wasn't old enough, but I'd hide behind the corner and watch anyway. That was pretty scary, but considering that I was 8 years old at the time that's hardly a surprise.

I'm not sure if it's a double-standard or not, but I'm not going to count films that I saw as a little kid. When you're a kid anything with the smallest amount of blood is scary. Being older, the fear has to come from a more psychological level to have any impact. I don't know that a film has to be completely scary all throughout, but it can definitely have its freaky moments. A good example would be the ending to the first Saw movie, where the the guy is locked away in the dark with no way out of the room. That's almost equivalent to being buried alive. That's genuinely freaky and messed up. You watch that and you think "I absolutely do NOT want to die that way."

Getting impaled through the head's one thing, because it probably doesn't hurt for very long and you'll die very quickly. But slow deaths where you remain acutely aware of the process are something that nobody wants to willingly go through.

10/28/2007 12:10:01 PM

The Grudge scared the fuck out of me....as well as my fiance and a few of my friends

first scary movie since I was a little kid that actually got to me

when I was a kid Poltergeist and Pet Sematary scared me

10/28/2007 12:50:44 PM

I haven't seen the grudge, what about it was scary?

10/28/2007 1:15:58 PM