To think that this is a terrible concept for a film and the writers should be ashamed of themselve

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Im pretty easy going when it comes to films and tv. while there are some programmes that i would never watch because i dont agree with the idea behind them, i accept that other people do. part of lifes rich tapestry etc.

however, Im horrified that a film has been released about a woman being haunted by the possessed spirit of her miscarried twin brother. it may be that im just ultra-sensitive on this subject. i accept that. but i think its a disgusting premise for a film.

i dont agree liffey...i felt really short-changed and disappointed ah well

I could hardly sleep for a week afterwards!!

I caught the end of a trailer for this - i was and thought it was pretty disgusting too so YANBU

ah i can see that this has turned into a discussion of freaky films. What is it about human nature that we like to watch this shit - i wouldnt want to watch the unborn as i can't watch anything with bad stuff associated with children. On the whole i tend to avoid horrors now although i was addicted when i was younger.

I watched wolf creek too - that was the sickest bloody film i ever watched. I didnt realise it was a true story else i wouldnt have watched it, i thught it was just another slasher movie, it was on the TV and DP likes this sort of thing so i stayed around to watch - absolutely regretted it, i kept waiting for the girls to get away but it never happened - horrible film and quite unnecessary imo.

Texas chain saw massacre - that came out in the 80s when i was into all of that - i was a teenager. LOVED all that stuff, the gorier the better. Watched it on the TV once with DP and ended up in floods of tears. I just think as you get older, or become parents you get a sort of empathy and you just don't like to think of anyone suffering.

Things like nightmare on elmstreet don't faze me, neither do friday the 13th type stuff, its just crap and therefore i dont take seriously but good late night entertainment.

There are plenty of academic theories about why people watch horror films (and, before films, liked horror novels etc), the main one being that catharsis - the evocation of pity and terror in a safe space - is actually healthy for us.
I love horror films, the dumber the better in some cases - my favourite is still Day Of The Dead, which I like to watch when life is really shitty (hmm, may have to get that video out tonight) as it cheers me up no end. THe most frightening thing I have ever seen remains Candyman (the first one, the sequel is ridiculous) closely followed by The Ring. (Though I did like the idea of a gay porn parody of it that allegedly had the same strapline - Before you die, you see... THE RING).
I have also, on the whole, found fellow horror fans to be nicer people than the sort who want horror films banned, or want to get their wussy ignorant subjectivity about films somehow inforced in law ('bwwaaaahhh! You can have a film about the Night of the Living Not Very Well but nothing tasteless'). People who don't approve of horror films (as opposed to simply not liking them) tend to get their dose of catharis by pigging out on tabloid-induced Moral Panics, which is generally much unhealthier.

Solidgold - love your explanation. I don't DISAPPROVE of horror.I'm just a wuss and get really freaked out by it. Although there is something compulsive about it sometimes. Couldn't sleep the whole night after I watched The Darkeness. Same for the night I saw Creep on filmour.

True solid. I can't stand real life misery porn. But I like to be terrified by a film. So I don't want real horror. I want entertainment horror.