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My cousin thinks Horror appeals to him because fear is the ONLY thing that every single person in the world has in common. It is the most pure emotion of all, because there is no way to control it. He also likes how dedicated and die hard genre actors and film-makers are. It seems to have a much tighter community than those of other genres. There is such passion in the execution of genre material, and it inspires and terrifies him. He gets high on the adrenaline, tension and blood flow and/or splatter.

If I'm not mistaken... the same enzymes that are released to cause the whole "horror" experience are the same ones that say "i'm extremely sad"

i love horror.. i'm an adrenaline junky (financially limited compared to the pros) i love the way the world narrows tremedously once fear grips you.. people say " i can't focus" the thing is.. they have no idea just how focused they really are.. some just can't handle the suprise aspect or the fear of death, pain, ect.

Horror means to me being scared, if you're talking about the horror film genre it still means to me being scared. =P

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Unfortunately, as I've gotten older, horror has come to mean Man's inhumanity towards Man. Read the papers, you'll see what I'm talking about.

Yes you are right NeverMore.
Man is really frightening.

And I agree, Adrian. I'm a fellow adrenaline junkie and right on that knife's edge where it's a puff of wind way, or a knot in the line in skydiving or a wrong step in caving.
Or just in the water at the exactly right (or wrong, depending on how you see it moment) and you open your eyes and see yourself surrounded by hammerhead sharks...it's horrifying.

And since we were little kids, we've all been afraid of the dark..afraid of the bogeyman.

LOL!

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Oh oh! You better keep it clean buddy... but I like your thinking!

Spookymufu wrote:a chick dresses in almost nothing willing to do almost anything.....oh wait, you said horror didnt you?

LOL!

I like that one! Because you perv!

Well, I enjoy scary movies, but I'm not sure if I out & out love "horror" movies. To me, that label implies slasher films, lots of gore. Now, I can take some of that--I enjoy the original "Halloween," for example--but on the whole I think I prefer eerie, atmospheric movies. I like ghosts more than serial killers, and suspense more than blood.

A day or so back I got hold of a used DVD called "The Orphanage." It was pretty good, although it was in Spanish (which I didn't realize when I bought it), so I ended up reading it. Not sure I really loved the ending, but I do like ghost stories, and that's what that was.

My husband and I saw "Wolfen" in the movie theater when it was new, and that was one of the scariest experiences I've ever had in the theater. I don't think it came across that way on TV, but everyone in that theater was so on edge that my husband and I almost left. You see most of the movie through the eyes of the spirit-wolves. That was eerie.

Murfreesboro wrote:A day or so back I got hold of a used DVD called "The Orphanage." It was pretty good, although it was in Spanish (which I didn't realize when I bought it), so I ended up reading it. Not sure I really loved the ending, but I do like ghost stories, and that's what that was.

I rented this and was pissed when I found out it was in spanish....I hate subtitles, I miss 80% of the movie because I'm trying to read the subtitles.....after about 15min I took it out and returned it....

Yeah, it takes patience to sit through a movie with subtitles. Some of them are worth it, though. My husband and I both loved the original, Japanese version of "Shall We Dance," and we saw it with subtitles. I never did see the American version, so I don't know how well it compares.

The guy who wrote or directed The Orphanage is the same guy who did Pan's Labyrinth. I never saw that one, but I do know it got a lot of attention during its Oscar year. It may have won foreign film, not sure. The Orphanage was well made. I'm going to have to watch it again just to see if Geraldine Chaplin was in it. I thought I recognized her as the medium, but I didn't know she was fluent in Spanish.

The Orphanage is spooky, but the ending was somewhat dissatisfying to me. I don't want to give it away for anyone who still wants to check it out, but I guess I can say that the director seems to want us to feel good about the way it ends, and I didn't, exactly.

The other day I was at my MIL's and started watching a movie called "The Descent" (I think) about several women who go caving. I thought it was looking pretty good, but I had to leave. Has anyone seen it?

spooky i LMAO on your earlier comment hahahaha

For me, the concept of horror is about attaining some measure of power or control over the fear of death. I don't know that I necessarily fear being dead (which I view as the cessation of existence, both physical and conscious), but I do fear dying. Will it be slow, painful, far earlier than expected? Will my brain, clinging to the last few seconds of existence, drag out the actual death so that I experience it as an eternity? The great unknown of death is something that is necessarily scary, and the idea of horror, in the context of films or Halloween decorations, is about feeling the fear of death while being removed from actual death. A horror movie may be scary because I identify with the characters, but when the movie is over, I'm still alive, and it almost feels like an F. U. to death. I put up ghouls and corpses and skeletons in my yard; things which, if they were real, would be horrible. But the fact that they aren't real helps relegate the concept of actual death to a part of my mind which can view my real death, which I know is eventual, as something unreal. I can, in a sense, fool my mind, at least temporarily, into thinking that my own death may be just as fake as the monsters in my yard or on a movie screen.

I love horror because I just like the thrill I love Halloween and I just like them. And sorry to ole film fans I'm just not a fan, for some reason the new cameras makes it more realistic. Don't get me wrong I love the originals Halloween, Nightmare on elm street I'm talking like twilight. Sorry to all the ole film fans once again.