Horror movies, in particular, rarely interest me, especially the more recently popular "torture porn" types or ones where there is relentless blood-spattering and gore simply for a gross-out effect, a big appeal for some that eludes me.*
Same.
I can't watch 65% of horror films. Mainly for that reason. I don't like gore. There's a reason I sucked at biology and avoided anything that involved blood and guts.
A truly good horror movie works because it build suspense, and/or evokes some primal fear common to nearly all humans.
Also builds on characters or is character driven. If you don't "care" about the characters - how can you be afraid for them, or feel "horror" at what happens to them?
Psychological horror I can watch for the most part, along with most films by Guillermo Del Torro - although it depends on the film. I don't watch horror at all right now - mainly because why bother - I feel as if I'm trapped inside a horror film.
I have a love/hate relationship with horror. One of my favorite horror films is Robert Wise's The Haunting of Hill House, and Andromeda Strain. He was a master at minimalism and psychological. I also like Jaws - because it's more psychological build up, than real gore. And Jurassic Park.
I couldn't watch The Descent. I tried. Too scary for me - it's a trope I struggle with, within the horror genre. (I'm claustrophobic.) But, I have seen The Vanishing,the Danish version - which is...scary as all get out and probably worse.
Like I said, love/hate relationship.
Oh, I adore "Kill Bill". Tarantino did about three really good films - Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, and Resevoir Dogs. Everything else...felt kind of redundant.
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Date: 2020-09-12 03:10 am (UTC)Same.
I can't watch 65% of horror films. Mainly for that reason. I don't like gore. There's a reason I sucked at biology and avoided anything that involved blood and guts.
A truly good horror movie works because it build suspense, and/or evokes some primal fear common to nearly all humans.
Also builds on characters or is character driven. If you don't "care" about the characters - how can you be afraid for them, or feel "horror" at what happens to them?
Psychological horror I can watch for the most part, along with most films by Guillermo Del Torro - although it depends on the film. I don't watch horror at all right now - mainly because why bother - I feel as if I'm trapped inside a horror film.
I have a love/hate relationship with horror. One of my favorite horror films is Robert Wise's The Haunting of Hill House, and Andromeda Strain. He was a master at minimalism and psychological. I also like Jaws - because it's more psychological build up, than real gore. And Jurassic Park.
I couldn't watch The Descent. I tried. Too scary for me - it's a trope I struggle with, within the horror genre. (I'm claustrophobic.) But, I have seen The Vanishing,the Danish version - which is...scary as all get out and probably worse.
Like I said, love/hate relationship.
Oh, I adore "Kill Bill". Tarantino did about three really good films - Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, and Resevoir Dogs. Everything else...felt kind of redundant.