OK, already ... =O .... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa <------- Kate screamin'!!!


SO many of my beloved film contemporaries and great friends ADORE the Horror film genre ...


I just don't get it; what da H!LL is da dealio pay-off??? Seriously!!!


Is it a roller coaster like hit???? (Another thing my system does not well tolerate!)


I truly just do not get it ... They really damage me and interfere w/ my inner peace ...

Lucccceeeeeeee ... 'Splain' yo-self!???


Help a sistah out here ... What am I missin' ... ?????????????????????

Torgo ... You go FIRST ... Heheheeeeeeeeee ... =p

Ummmm...Horror films are not to your taste??? ...just a thought...no worries they are not to mine either I find them

Yeah ... They mess me all up!

Torgo, here ... Plastic ... bunches of others here and in my life,that I'm so kinderd w/ in other ways ... ???


... Absolutely THRILL to them! HUH???


"What's the motivation, yo????"

What can I say, I've loved horror since one of my sister's took me to see JAWS on the big screen back in '75. As a kid I loved horror because they scared the crap out of me. But yeah I guess it's the roller coaster thing, I love to be scared, and sometimes grossed out.

I can't really give any more of an answer than why people like Westerns , or Scifi, or Musicals, or Dramas. Horror entertains me, the good, the bad, the cheesy, the over the top gore, or the moody atmosphere of the black & white classics.

I guess some peeps just like thrills and chills Its like the modern day Roman colluseum. There will always be blood lust in the form of entertainment. Its just not my bag...Im more Zen I guess.

Ah, but not all horror films are about the "blood lust" films like The Innocents ,and the original The Haunting. Some horror films are less violent than some scifi or action flicks.

Hear ya on the Zen ... I'm a great foreign film zone type, Venus ...

Yeah, it's weird, Torgo ...

LOVE the hit I got w/ many of the films deemed in others "3 Most Disturbing" list ...

(Clockwork Orang, Shining, etc, etc ... Majority of those cited)

Even, "Natural Born Killers" is a solid fav ...

There's like a cliff though ...

The ones that just go/went to far ... Like Hannibal and Wolf Creek ...

I can't imagine how one doesn't run in terror in those like "SAW" ...


Guess I'll keep wondering ... Hmmmmmmmmmm ...

LOVE the original "The Haunting" ... I don't consider that horror, though!???

But it is horror and it's considered a horror classic along with films like The Innocents, and Nosferatu, and Bride Of Frankenstein...

I love foreign films as well...In fact my all time fave film is Himalaya.

Yeah, yeah, yeah ... BUT ... You get my question is not about the classics that are so tame considered to the gore of today ...

I'm tallkin' the gore and torture ones ...

How do ya handle it ... I can't even look ... Much less imagine ...

My psyche gets soooooo assaulted ... Lil bit of my soul gets lost ...

They say the subconscious cannot discern any images scene as not being real ...

Venus ... Go find my "Alltime Fav Films" thread and share w/ the class ...

It has become an amazing group collection ... ;-)

Hang on ... I'll go find it and bump it ... @-->-----

Well, many horror film classics are foreign Kwaidan, Onibaba, Eyes Without A Face, Nosferatu, Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey

Ok, I was just trying to point out that not all horror is about the torture, and the gore.

That's one of the many things I love about horror is there's so many different types.

Of the hardcore stuff it just doesn't bother me, but I draw the line at certain films like A Serbian Film which is supposed to have a very sick scene towards a baby, I will never watch that film because of it.

As I've gotten older I don't search out the more extreme like I used to. I did watch Sick Girl because it was available at Netflix, but I don't go out of my way to track them down(though I do have a friend who sends me the obscure when she finds them, and some of those are extreme)

Well, like Session 9 ... I could well tolerate and even thrilled to it ...

And you said it was one of the most disturbing you'd seen, or something like that ...

Guess, I don't get me then ...

When that sorta film and Shining really turned me on w/ suspense and thought provoking hit ...

Yanno???

Seemed odd to me that ya can get w/ such hardcore and yet find Session 9 disturbed ...

Perhaps as is usually the way ... I don't understand my own limits, yet, being so drawn to some really quite dark films ...

With films like Session 9 or the original Japanese Ring they got to me on a different level than a film like Cannibal Holocaust- it wasn't about the brutality like CH, but something that got under my skin. I can't explain but some films manage to do that to me. But like I said it's different things, but not all horror films I enjoy are scary or even disturb me, some I enjoy because they entertain me for their cheese factor, and some tell really good stories with great characters- which is why George Romero's Dawn of the Dead one of my all time favorite films. And some horror films are visually stunning like the Japanese Kaidan.

Never saw Dawn of the Dead ... Could I deal??? Kaidan ... gory???


Yeah ... I love the way Shining, Session 9 ... Natural Born Killers ... Clockwork O ... Misery ...

REALLY ... Got under my skin too ...

I do find myself fascinated w/ the really fringe dark and strange ...

I was too frightened to see 'The Ring'

The American Ring was crap, IMO.

There is gore in the original Dawn, but you could close your eyes during those parts. Romero created a great end of the world flick with Dawn, and he does make commentary on society and commercialism. It's a film that isn't just a zombie film, but also a film about people trying to survive in a world on the brink.

Kaidan is not gory, but a great anthology.

And Roman Polanski has created some very visual horror films- Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, even the horror comedy Fearless Vampire Killers.

Hmmmm ... I'll def see Kaidan then ...

I easily handled Carrie ...

Saw Rosemary's Baby, didn't much dig it ...

Polanski is hit and miss w/ me ...


Lotsa food for thought, cheers!

Still haven't braved - The Machinist - checked out 5 days now ... best get on it!!!