i just want input. What makes horror movies so entertaining to people? I was watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning today, and i saw the dude get bashed in the head with a hammer, and thought 'wow, i've actually seen two guys get in a fight and one guy hit the other guy with a bat and didn't find it very entertaining'.

I realize its not real, but....why?

coming this summer....
a silent, invisible killer..........that can't be stopped.................runs rampant in the vast, punishing deserts of Africa.............based on the true story of millions of starving families in africa......AFRICA: THE HUNGER. SUMMER 07.

everyone: AWWW SHIT, I GOTTA SEE THAT.....

....Why?

Haha I know dude. Most of my friends like seeing scary movies, probably because they think it makes them macho or something. Personally, scary movies are stupid. Their main point is to try and scare people. Why would companies want to scare people from their movie?

Haha jk. Oh and scientists have proven that scary movies prepare you for scary moments later in life. True fact.

I generally dislike horror movies completely. I don't want to be scared, and they're mostly just attempts to scare people without much else to them. I love for movies to be thrilling, but the common horror genre does nothing for me.

I actually like horror movies. I'm a big fan of horror movies but I'm disappointed in the movies comming out today. They aren't horror movies, they're just gore, blood, and sex. I like horror movies because I like to be scared, don't know why, just do. I guess cuz life's too boring and being scared at the moies kinda fills that void. That's just me though.

Horror movies are supposed to be about suspence and things that scare you. But most movies forget about that and only care about blood and shit like that. That's why I've stopped watching movies altogther. There's nothing good nowa days. Espically in the horror genre.

I don't mind horror movies, but I detest all the gory movies that all these kids seem to get sucked into so easily. My favorite horror film is the shining, just because it was all done so well.

Maybe people watch these cheesy horror flicks for a cheap thrill seeing as there is nothing fun to do in their state/shithole they live in.
That's what I think.

[quote="BadRedOx"]Maybe people watch these cheesy horror flicks for a cheap thrill seeing as there is nothing fun to do in their state/shithole they live in.
That's what I think.[/quote]

Well said.

tl;dr:

My theory that I may have subconciously ripped from Discovery Channel or somethin':

We, as humans were not always top of the food chain and had to be fearful of some things in order to survive. It's in every frickin animal ever (except those bitch-ass arrogant toads that are so poisonous, one ounce of their shiz can kill 1500 people. Yellow bastaads.) because it's vital for survival. When people don't get that rush from actual fear, they turn to the next-best alternative. Mock-scares.

People popping out in horror films, blood, gore, violence, death, sex (with a dirty ho), etc. are available to stimulate such reactions, and people need to have them. It's not the fear that people like; it's the adrenalin rush they get from the (7th Grade Health) "fight or flight" syndrome. When horror movies ain't cutting it, you get people like thrill seekers who BASE climb, go on roller coasters and all of that shiz.

However, people don't go watch movies to feel fear. Real, true fear, imo, is something that you dread so much it can physically effect you. Ice in the stomach, nausea, tremors, etc. If you know when you get home and that you're going to be beaten horrendously, you aren't thrilled by the rush (albeit movies don't abuse people, it's the general meaning...)

tl;dr over:

To sum it up, people who see horror films don't go for the cheap scares; they go for the adrenalin rush from being startled.

Don't think that's close? Look at all of the drug-users, and look at how many of them see the scary movies. I'm not talking about heavy users, just like the average highschooler, and most of 'em do drugs in some form, and most see scary movies. It's a legal way to achieve a high without achieving a "high."


Plus, if you take a chick out to a scary movie, you do it for teh "in b4 we di3" secks. Duh.

Yeah people want some sort of adrenaline rush without doing something that actually puts their lives at risk.

[quote="Blank"][quote="BadRedOx"]Maybe people watch these cheesy horror flicks for a cheap thrill seeing as there is nothing fun to do in their state/shithole they live in.
That's what I think.[/quote]

Well said.

tl;dr:

My theory that I may have subconciously ripped from Discovery Channel or somethin':

We, as humans were not always top of the food chain and had to be fearful of some things in order to survive. It's in every frickin animal ever (except those bitch-ass arrogant toads that are so poisonous, one ounce of their shiz can kill 1500 people. Yellow bastaads.) because it's vital for survival. When people don't get that rush from actual fear, they turn to the next-best alternative. Mock-scares.

People popping out in horror films, blood, gore, violence, death, sex (with a dirty ho), etc. are available to stimulate such reactions, and people need to have them. It's not the fear that people like; it's the adrenalin rush they get from the (7th Grade Health) "fight or flight" syndrome. When horror movies ain't cutting it, you get people like thrill seekers who BASE climb, go on roller coasters and all of that shiz.

However, people don't go watch movies to feel fear. Real, true fear, imo, is something that you dread so much it can physically effect you. Ice in the stomach, nausea, tremors, etc. If you know when you get home and that you're going to be beaten horrendously, you aren't thrilled by the rush (albeit movies don't abuse people, it's the general meaning...)

tl;dr over:

To sum it up, people who see horror films don't go for the cheap scares; they go for the adrenalin rush from being startled.

Don't think that's close? Look at all of the drug-users, and look at how many of them see the scary movies. I'm not talking about heavy users, just like the average highschooler, and most of 'em do drugs in some form, and most see scary movies. It's a legal way to achieve a high without achieving a "high."


Plus, if you take a chick out to a scary movie, you do it for teh "in b4 we di3" secks. Duh.[/quote]

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up!

I don't like these really scary, gory horror movies, unless they are really poorly done. ( I saw a clip of this one movie, and some chick was running away from something that didn't exist, so she climbs through an interior window into another room filled with barbed wire and dies... just wow...) I like the more suspenseful-type horrors like Signs, The Sixth Sense, Nosferatu and such (basically M. Night Shyamalan movies) Horror flicks tend to be really cheesy, and that's really not my style...

Those would be called psychological thrillers.


Today, in Psychology, I was daydreaming and thinking about 28 Days later redfining the Apocalyptic movie scene... thing. Then I was thinking about how 28.. is a lot like SMT (Shin Megami Tensei). And -then- I thought that it would be cool as HELL to make an SMT game for the Wii where you get to use swords to fight shit like, angels and demons and the bigass Jaryuu and other assorted monsters.

It'd be first-person esque and you'd just see broken buildings everywhere. A pure survival game for the Wii would kick so much ass, if the controls were done right, it's not even funny.

I think it's moreless if one guy does it, then you have to see it because more less your friends seen it. So you gotta be cool and go see it. Basically.

I'm personally highly dissapointed in horror movies. Just for the fact that you know what's going to happen next or you already know the ending, and these days it sort of has a repeating story line in each movie.

Killer invades house
Something mysterious happens to someone or something
Haunted houses
A gory vacation
etc etc.

That's what I think.

Im a big fan of psychological horror. I dont really like the bloody pop out horror, its fun during it but it doesnt stick with you.

the kind of horror movies I like are movies that stick with me and override my rationality. I have a very weak rationality, I am the kind of person who sticks by things that seem stupid because I like the idea of them better. So a good psychological horror movie will have me looking over my shoulder for days. Its sorta like daydreaming but you get an emotional response out of it.

my favs Ju-on and Reincarnation. I love Takashi Shimizu's stuff, but his american versions weren't too great because he tried too add american pop out and scare you thrills too his movies.