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Oh I'm sure they're great movies. But am entirely uninterested in anything to do with them.
Oh, my bad.
horror movies are my primary thing, my deal
now we will never be wed
I will have nothing at all whatsoever to do with torture scenes and I can pretty easily avoid them and still see a metric buttload of horror movies happily.
it's primarily the bad ones that opt for those, same as constant jump scares
edit: this is not a statement saying everyone needs to watch horror movies btw
Scared is a bad thing to be! It sucks!
MP kinda covered it but its actually sort of a misconception that horror movies intrinsically have torture
A bunch do but its not at all universal
Turns out a good horror movie is hard to make!
This is a very good reason to not watch horror movies!
Man when I first saw The Exorcist I was so terrified of beds and then by extension of furniture in general that I refused to go inside the house until I absolutely had to and fuck you if you think I'm sleeping on a bed ever again mom.
Torture and pet death are two incredibly overused and tired horror tropes to get a quick emotional reaction from the audience. I hates them along with jump scares and "make the victim an asshole so the audience will like to see them die".
I am refusing to see Lights Out because I know if I do I won't be able to shut off my lights for a month
This is the kind of horror I like
Babadook has essentially no jump scares, I'm sure I could get a list together if you want
I hear they love to watch horror movies
Particularly
good lord yes
I've seen horror almost every week for decades and that still gave me the brown trousers
The Babadook is a fantastic film but very meta and a lot of people just won't groove on that.
I don't think Green Room has any real torture scenes.
It has some brutal and frantic violence, but it's all very quick stuff. Pain, as opposed to agony.
Its horror relies all on the expertly crafted tension, rather than any specific damage being caused.
With one exception, probably. But I think everyone covers their eyes during that scene, it's a normal reaction.
but that doesn't mean they don't watch.... you *glass shattering*
along with torture (mental, physical, whatever), i also don't like mindfucky stuff or just... having a movie scare me as its main function, because my brain spiders don't need any encouragement. serial killers are another no-sell for me.
the Evil Deads, Hard Rock Zombies, Wild Zero, Alien, The Host, Timecrimes... these all fall into various types of horror, and are movies that i have enjoyed. i think Don't Breathe looks pretty good, but i'll probably pass on it unless someone who knows me well says i'd enjoy it.
holy cow that sounds like it could be really good
I have a real issue with being unable to control my body like that. Just thinking about sleep conscienceness gets my brain a flutter
it's really only happened to me twice that I can remember. once was just hey I can't move oh now I can and another was waking up from a drowning dream and trying to yell that I needed help but I couldn't so I just ended up mooing loudly.
I got the meta part of it. I just don't care for how annoying the kid is, no matter how much it serves the story. And how shitty everyone is to each other. I had the same issue with The Mist.
Yeah, the kid for me was the best part because he is INCREDIBLY annoying at the beginning so you can really relate with the mother but I felt he kind of turned it around by the middle. I didn't think anyone was really shitty to each other tho except the mother as she continued to break down. But my boyfriend really didn't like the film because of the kid either, like in mere seconds he just white-hot hated him.
I agree with the Mist; tension spawning from everyone being an asshole to each other is not something I enjoy. It's why I never watch political or crime dramas.
Also, I didn't mean to imply that you didn't "get" the meta, just that some people really just don't like that as story telling additive.
Remake of the Blob quickly solves that issue
one of our 12-hour marathons post-college was just horror, and i had the misfortune of --early in the morning-- powering through Martyrs, which haunted me for years. (i'm pretty sure i was progressively curling into the fetal position and bundling into the comforter throughout.) but, the beau and i also say 'haaaaauuuuuuse' at each other on the regular, so there were also some fun aftereffects.
a few seconds of near indiscernible nudity at ~ 1:22 - 1:28 to be safe, but the movie contains a startling (as in, it was sudden) (horror-standard) amount.
Hausu
I routinely get sleep paralysis. Wake up just enough to be aware of my surroundings, but still deep enough in REM cycle to be unable to move. It's a panicky feeling but I've been through it enough to reason my way out of it.
dear lord jesus in heaven but I fucking adore hausu. it is madder than a bag of hot ass crazy
also there's a bit of nudity in that trailer btw
Weirdly recommended to me as "what if there was a sailor moon episode where everybody got murdered in a haunted house "