Not really a scary movie, but sometimes I will revisit Cory Kenshin’s channel to watch him do his spooky scary sunday YouTube videos.
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I’m fascinated by horror fans! I’ve have had many discussions with people and done research on the topic of whether horror fans actually experience genuine fear (terror) when watching films or is it more excitement?
What say the fans here? Have you ever been scared to the point
you cannot watch a movie a second time?
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I was quite young when I saw my first horror film (an edited-for-TV version of Friday the 13th part III), maybe 4 or 5 years old, but I became an instant fan. Oddly enough, they quite scared me at the time, but I craved them, anyway.
At some point, the general fear wore off, so I applaud a film that can “get” me now, even if its a cheap jump scare that’s used effectively. Even better if the film can unnerve me - make me feel a prolonged sense of dread, rather than a quick little fright (Under the Skin, Hereditary, Anti-Christ…).
But I’ve never seen a film that was too frightening to revisit, though there are films I won’t watch again, only due to them being too depressing, like Requiem for a Dream. haha
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I feel you on that one. I never had a desire to see it twice. It wasn’t just the depressing aspect, it was the general ickiness of the whole thing too knowing that it isn’t some far fetched fantastical story.
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It depends on which type of films you are talking about. Things like the typical slasher haunted house, or zombie flick I would have as a child, but not now, I find them kind of comical, and they are just enjoyable because some of them can be sort of absurd. I think that’s really the quality that I like about them. It’s just about having a good time, and the more you watch them the more you get desensitized. (Note I don’t care for zombie flick because they have been really over done, and I just find them kind of boring now, unless of course it’s Shawn of the dead). Some I won’t watch a second time because they were either so bad, or I don’t really see the need.
Some are just meant to be silly like Stitches, Or even the original evil dead trilogy, Tucker and dale, Idle hands etc. - I’m not even sure that should be a horror movie.
Others can have an initial shock value and uneasiness like the aforementioned hereditary, or for the time they were made, the original Wes craven last house, or exorcist.
I think it kind of just boils down to knowing what you’re in for. Some people like the cortisol hit of legitimately being scared, some people know what to expect and just see it as a good time or slight thrill.
It’s tough to say what fans get from horror movies, to me it’s not fear exactly. My favourites have a surreal dreamlike quality to them. I can’t imagine being too scared to watch a movie again, it’s inconceivable. But some are just too repulsive or disturbing. Nekromantic is one that I didn’t even want to own after watching, even for me that was too much. We Need to Talk About Kevin is another, for entirely different reasons . . . yikes.
great - thanks for responding everyone! - like I said, so interesting how to me how some people can love horror movies and others are negatively affected by them. I’ve known people on both sides of the fence. Also as Fossegrim mentioned it depends on the type of horror for some people as well. Interesting topic!
Also too, what we find scary changes over time. I’m sure hammer horror or really gothic horror in general at one point was terrifying to many. Around the time a lot of that stuff written, people really were superstitious and legitimately feared it. Here in New England, people used to exhume bodies all the time to check for vampirisms up until the late 1800’s, and had all sorts of creative ways of desecration.
Now we see those movies and story lines as old pulp fiction or penny dreadfuls, or turn those characters into cheap teen romance.
Was this a typo, or a legit subgenre I’ve never heard of? Lol
It’s horror movies where people get hit with a hammer, of course. 
Hammer is a British film company that’s been around for ages - they made a fair number of horror films, which were mostly gothic in nature (lots of Dracula and Frankenstein films, among others).
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Hammer film productions in London. All your old Christopher Lee gothic horror films.
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@Fossegrim @Riffdiculous wow, never knew that! Could be before my “era”, as I don’t think I’ve seen any of those.
Was a big thing in the 70s. Lots of great hammer horrors, but also a lot of not so great stuff…
Yeah, I mean growing up I only would typically see them on some syndicated TV channel as some Saturday or Sunday movie, especially since my grandparents had cable, but If you are really immersed in the history of horror film making or gothic horror in general, than it’s one of the production era’s you can’t really miss.
Yeah it wasn’t big budget stuff by any means, particularly since the going sentiment back then was that horror in general really had no place in Hollywood, and no one really wanted to put up the money for it. Even today you get some good, but mostly shit. Thats the other draw of it. It doesn’t require a huge budget and the shit can be fun too.
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I haven’t seen a ton, but there are some Hammer productions I highly enjoy, like Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, and Twins of Evil. Good stuff around Halloween to set the mood.
Last year, I stumbled upon this movie called “Hereditary” - lemme tell ya, it had me on the edge of my seat the whole time!
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Indeed, one of the best in recent years.
Hereditary is a fantastic horror flick. Very enjoyable (or whatever that means in this context lol).
Love Hereditary, then realized that it was shot here after recognizing some locations lol