to think that people who 'enjoy' horror films are just a little bit fucked up?

[LastMinuteLouise]

Maybe I am just an oversensitive person but I find watching my fellow man being terrified, screaming and then horribly killed, with blood and guts spewing, just a bit offensive! I am aware it is not real (plenty of real stuff in the news which is just as bad) but just having these images in my head upsets me. DH says he just forgets it when it's finished - he's currently watching 'Devil', some fucked up film about a devil in a lift . Most of the dramas and films these days are about people getting murdered, getting killed or being dead. It is so mainstream.

I mean where do these film makers get these ideas? Surely they should be committed? Are we all supposed to have this 'dark' side that they make into 'art'? Where is the entertainment in having horrifying images in your head?

I remember watching 'Changeling' a few years back thinking it was about a woman who's son disappears and who is then given a 'ringer' back by the police. I was totally unprepared for the scene in which young boys (my DSs age) were shown being axed to death. Fucked me up for months weeks and I was watching it alone. I remember shouting at the screen, please tell me that did'nt happen but apparently it did.

I don't know. Am I abnormal?

Yabu, I'm a fluffy hippie in RL, I cry at everything, yet I LOVE horror films. The Walking Dead and Dexter are my fave shows and I think it's the adrenaline rush that comes from watching tense and scary things. That said, I have a limit, and gratuitous gore and torture just make me feel icky. Final Destination is funny though, it's just like a gorier episode of Casualty!

Incidentally never watch a film called 'Ils' (them) it scared the crap out of me and still makes my heart race a bit thinking about it.

I love, love, love horror films.

In the same way that I love the buzz of a coffee or a stiff drink or the thrill of a roller coaster ride - getting me kicks any way I can in me old age!!

I hate gory, sick horror films. I like scary, tense, spooky ones.

" Plus the ability to realise that it's only something someone's made up."

Ahh...maybe that's my problem then . Because when I'm lying awake at 2am and too terrified to move I have trouble convincing myself that it's only pretend!

Yuck no I wouldn't watch Hostel in a million years, BeerTricksP.

I watched Saw last night - it is much more of a thriller Seven-stylee than I thought it would be and not all gore.

I can't see how it doesn't desensitise people to violence. How could the horror genre do anything else? Not that it makes you more violent, but it makes you more likely to shrug off reports of violence & think they're no big deal.

But isn't it quite 'pretty young girl gets butchered in titilating style'?

Or is that Wolf Creek?

I hate horror films, but I'm the wussiest wuss ever.
YABU to think that people that do like them are fucked up, lots of people just like being scared.

Isn't wolf creak the one with the two girls and one bloke, one of the girls escapes I think and the other two are butchered.

I don't like last house on the left, dont like the gang rape scene

Final Girl

Wolf Creek was based on a true story, wasn't it? I found that more scarey than Saw & Hostel. There didn't seem to be any reason for what happened.

They're all scarey in the same way, that it could happen.

Yes but I really do object to gratiuitous rape/murder scenes with sexy young girls. Horrible stuff. A whole different ballgame.

gratuitous obvs

I watched Wolf Creek by accident one night, not realising what it was... haunted me ever since. It's nasty torture porn.

The boy escapes, the 2 girls die. I think it was based on the Aussie backpacker-serial-killer, but only loosely.

Yes 'torture porn', exactly.

Give me Paranormal Activity any day over that nasty stuff.

I love paranormal activity - scary without ever really seeing anything, very clever.

I love films like The Others as well - so scary, but no hint of sickening gore.

I think I like to be 'scared' by psychological, supernatural stuff, but not have my stomach turned by mindless gore.

I'm far more disturbed by the Wonga grannies than by any horror film tbh. They are truly creepy.

Now 'ghost' stories or films I love. They scare me but I guess there is some structure to them - there is a story to be told as to why the 'ghost' is there.

I love horror films, Altho human Centipede 2 and hostel 3 where sick even by my standards.

there are two films that have haunted me tho, one being Eden lake and another one I'm struggling to remember the name, but it was about a girl being taken and gang raped but she eventually escapes and kills them all off. Oh wow that's gonna bug be now trying to remember the name of that film.