My Love of The Horror Genre - Comments

He wrote a book called 'Blood Games' and I adored it. Also 'Alarums' is amazing. I would love anything to do with the horror industry.

I made a satire horror movie in high school. It was hilarious. I would love to write/make horror movies. I haven't heard of him. If he writes horror I need to go to the library.

@ Psychotic Secrets
I always wanted to make a horror movie, but I think I'm more into writing horror, now. I've recently started reading the Richard Laymon books.

Hopefully it will happen one day. Or I'll just make one of my own.

@ Psychotic Secrets
Yeah, I'm waiting for something to really scare me again :)

Unseen killers are the only thing that gets my blood pumping. Nothing else bothers me. I feel like I've seen it all. But not knowing will upset me. The ONKY nightmare I ever had over a scary movie was when I was 11 and I watched a movie where a demon watched people. All you could see of the demon was two red eyes. So that's about it.

@ Psychotic Secrets
I'm not sure - it depends on the setup of the movie. Demons creep me out, the unseen killer thing does, also. Recently not many movies have really scared me. Zombies used to really scare me to the point of nightmares, but now they don't faze me. The facehuggers from Alien and the weird zombie slugs in Slither scared me - it's something about parasitic things that enter through the mouth, I guess. What about you?

What do you find scary? Like what in movies actually scares you?

@ Psychotic Secrets
Yeah I would've probably had a heart attack, I remember being scared to go upstairs alone after it.

I think I saw it to too soon after it was released. My parents always let me see movies like that, even at seven. I believe I was eighteen when I watched it all. So a little over ten years then. I really liked it. I was waiting for the witch to jump out to. Good thing she didn't. I would have peed myself.

@ Psychotic Secrets
Me too, but it's kind of you either love it or hate it. I saw it when I was about thirteen, and I was surprised to find that I was really creeped out.

The Blair Witch Project was the only movie I couldn't finish because I was too scared. Took me almost ten years to watch the whole thing. And never in one sitting. Gave me the hivey jives. I like movies like that.

@ Psychotic Secrets
Not seeing does make the tension go up - you're always waiting for something to pop up and scare you, and I love that in a movie. It's why I liked The Blair Witch Project, I was always waiting for the witch to show, and my mind had conjured up all of these different interpretations of what she looked like. Horror movies that make your imagination run wild are awesome.

@ Airi.
I thought that The Last Exorcism was pretty boring, and the only part of V/H/S that I truly liked was the section with the wide-eyed Vampire girl. I agree with the Asian horror aspect, it reminds me of the Halloween movies - how Michael Myers is unstoppable, and just keeps coming at you, but they ruined those movies with the numerous sequels, a la Friday the 13th. But they're not as supernatural as Asian horror, not as deliciously dark, but I think that it takes one good idea to re-ignite a country's' way of producing horror - then it gets done to death. With Ringu, it inspired a torrent of technology-based movies, some of them good, but some feeding off of the coat tails of it's success - Pulse is one of them.

Realized that with the Paranormal Activity movies. Everything that was "good" was in the trailers. So I really bummed when I went to the movies. I expected so much more I guess.

The ones made in the 80s and 90s appeal to me much more. I think it's the simplistically of them that makes them better. Like take Mama for example. That was a creepy movie. But the creepiness relied on how Mama looked like, the bone thin, shrunken face and double jointed spirit. What made it creepier was she wasn't being seen, but when they showed her. Bleh.

Like in Don't be Afraid of the Dark. It would have been much more creepy and scary if the creatures were never seen. I remember learning about this in class, the idea of mystery will creep the audience out.

@ La Notte Dei Demoni.
I hated The Blair Witch Project, I thought it was pretty boring. I've tried to watch a lot of found footage films from ones to V/H/S to ones like The Last Exorcism, they're all just terribly boring to me. I just don't see the appeal in those type of movies. It's just not my thing I guess. ^^

I think Asian horror is generally scarier because much of the time, they don't give you a way out. Like, in American horror, there is always a way to stop whatever is chasing you, be it human or supernatural. But a lot of Asian horror relies on the supernatural and a lot of the time, there's no way to stop it. Like Ju-on for example, she is an unstoppable force. There's no way to stop her once she sets her sights on you. Asian horrors tend to explain more and touch deeper on the psychological side. Americans are too into gore, they're too quick to just jump right to gore and think that makes a good horror movie. Asian horror movies take a nice pace with their movies and focus more on actual scares than gore.

@ Psychotic Secrets
Yeah, I think studios are just looking to shock with ad campaigns, and then they don't deliver when you actually go and see the movie. It's a real shame - the 80s was probably my favourite era for horror - camp horror but also some creepy horror.

Yeah number one didn't seem to good either. I watched it but it was just, bleh to me. Nothing made it spark in my opinion. It became like the Saw movies, just there to see how many people can throw up. Though I do like the Saw movies.

Yeah I have Chiller and it has some pretty good movies. Some are off the wall but I like them. I like horror in general. It's appeals more than anything for me. But recently I can't watch horror like I used to. The newer movies aren't as good to me.

@ Psychotic Secrets
Yeah animal deaths are horrible - the only part of the remake of Evil Dead that bothered me was the death of the dog - which you know is coming, but still. I've seen too many horror movies to count, as well. I just adore the horror movie culture - conventions, magazines, the movie festivals where you can meet those who love it, too. I didn't think The Human Centipede 1 was very good, so I sort of skipped the second one, it didn't really ignite my attention. There's an all-night horror movie channel which I pick up on my TV, and I can just sit and devour the good (and bad) of new horror. Formulaic, safe horror just annoys me unto no end.

The Tingler uses satire in my opinion. Which makes the movie all the better. It's actually very good, but its funny good. It's all about this creature that kills people when they are scared. I think either it's making fun of the classic horror films, or it's just so stereotypical. Either one.

I've watched so many horror movies, I can't name most of them anymore. I don't really find any that actually scare me. I pick up on the hints too much. Especially when I took a class that TAUGHT me how to pick at the movies. Now I just like to watch for the fun of it, rather to scare myself.

The only things in horror movies I absolutely hate is the killing/murder of animals. If a movie had a graphic away of an animal dying, I will not watch it. It's tasteless to me. Wild animals are borderline but if its a domesticated animal, nope nope nope.

Another movie that I was completely turned off about was The Human Centipede two. I got through maybe 30 minutes. It was beyond graphic to the point it looked way to realistic to my taste. Which bothered me. I like the obviously fake horror movies. That's just my personal taste though.