Do you enjoy horror movies?

No.

What’s the closest movie to horror that you like? Have you seen The Sixth Sense?

I like them,as long as there is no torture, or rape.

No, I do not watch them.

I think they can be amusing, but they’re not my favorite genre.

My favorite horror movies are comedy/parodies:

The Ladykillers (1955)
Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)
Young Frankenstein (1974)

Or horror/action:

Aliens (1986)
Jaws (1975)
The Terminator (1984)
Terminator 2
Predator
Duel (1971)
The Thing (1982)

But also:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Alien (1979)
Let the Right One In (2008)

Probably others that aren’t coming to mind right now. I’ve seen so many, and enjoyed many, but the above are favorites and stand-outs for me.

I saw 1408 last night. It was good.

I NEVER think I feel like watching a horror flick today; however, IF one makes it into my line of sight, I usually ENJOY it!!! Can’t say which ones I’ve enjoyed as I seldom remember their names!!!

I have watched The Sixth Sense & enjoyed it; however, I did NOT consider it a horror movie!!!

No – I feel there is too much horror in real life for me to enjoy horror movies.

I’ll watch if someone puts it on.
But generally never choose it myself.

No, never have. Why would one gratuitously seek to be frightened, when there is so much in real life to give one chills?

Certainly the classics, like Dracula and Frankenstein.
The 50’s schlock like Day Of The Triffids, The Day The Earth Stood Still, and The Amazing Colossal Man are fun.
The 80’s had great ones, like Alien, The Thing, and Poltergeist.
Recents like Blair Witch, War Of The Worlds, and Cloverfield will be watchable for years.
Horror Comedies like Young Frankenstein and Mars Attacks work on many levels.

I don’t care for the slasher films like Halloween, Scream, Final Destination, and Saw.

Does Shaun of the Dead count? How about Scouts Guide To Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?

Straight Horror I like if it is well done.

Dracula 2000
Storm of the Century
The Haunting
Old
The Others (for the first showing)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Something Wicked This Way Comes

I love good thriller mysteries but I’m way over the Freddy Gruger type of horror movie.

Not in general, but I have enjoyed some over the years.

Alien/Aliens
Scream
The Fly
The Howling

The classic universal monster movies, certainly.

The recent version of The Invisible Man with Elizabeth Moss was great.

And, I really enjoyed Werewolf by Night from Marvel that just came out on Disney+

No. I saw Misery and felt anxious every night for almost a year. I can’t watch Kathy Bates in anything now. The scene with the hammer did me in – I can handle movies with some violence, like The Godfather. But torture is something I really cannot watch. I’m extremely empathetic when I see other beings in pain, so that part is bad enough. But paired with a character who’s cold and indifferent to the pain they cause, it gets too intense for me. Another fictional character who really scared me is Hoyt from Rizzoli and Isles.

Generally not. My dad showed me Gremlins when I was like 5 years old, and not only did I never trust my stuffed animals again, but I got nightmares and it pretty much ruined the genre for me. As an adult, I’m able to see them now, but they’re usually so silly that I think I missed the boat.

@longgone I’m with you. I can watch battle scenes from a distance but torture does me in. I couldn’t stand that scene in The English Patient.

@elbanditoroso

Same reason why people enjoy roller coasters. Being scared has the same sort of effect as laughing at a comedy.

This should be in the social category.

Yes, I like horror movies and I’ve liked them since I was a kid watching BBC adaptations of the ghost stories of MR James broadcast in the UK on Christmas Eve. I don’t like overt horror, bloodshed or monsters created by special effects I prefer films where an uneasy atmosphere builds up gradually to an unsettling or terrifying conclusion.
Example
The Japanese film “The Ring” was very good and a more recent example I liked is “The Ghoul” released in 2016.

Nope. I never have. When you’ve lived horror in real life, that kind of kills any appetite for horror shows.

It’s not my favorite but yes, I watch some. I prefer my monster’s realistic but not human (plenty of those.)

American Horror Story is a bit too much.
The new Hellraiser is more my style, and I loved the Saw movies.
Grimcutty will probably be next for Halloween.

@SnipSnip

I put it in the general category because I like the answers to stay on topic for the most part. Whenever I put a question like this in social, half the answers are usually just sarcastic or off topic.

I do not care for horror films, unless they have some integral sci or scifi compontent to it.
There is something deeply annoying and lazy about supernatural slasher villains, whose undefeatability results from fucking stupid asspulls and “it’s magic” excuses.
That is why horror films like Predator, The Thing or Alien are so much superior to all other horror films. Their monsters are rooted in the natural world. Even with their otherworldly menace and power, they are still bound by rules and limitations. Rules that can be learned and exploited.
No witless horror film victim running away from Michael Myers, and the guy just inexplicably teleporting in front of the victim, because the director just wants that to happen.
Fuck slasher movies. Lazy ass pieces of shit.

I like most except for the ones like Hostel or SAW. I can’t watch torture. I like the cheezy, campy stuff.

I like the old B&W ones.

Generally – no. I do like movies that use the format for humor (Army of Darkness, Shaun of the Dead), either naturally occurring humor or parody of the genre. But jump scares do nothing for me. Drenching your actors in red colored corn syrup does nothing for me. A more ‘suspense’ style horror movie can sometimes be interesting, but generally I only enjoy that in small doses. It gets boring quickly.

IMHO, probably my favorite horror movie was the original Alien.

I’m a huge fan. I particularly like ghost/haunting movies. I try to watch a horror film every day during the month of October. My go to movies are Halloween, Trick r Treat, The Thing, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Cabin in the Woods, The Haunting in Connecticut, and The Conjuring movies.

@ragingloli

I expected a cynical answer full of swearing and I wasn’t disappointed lmao. But it’s funny, I like Halloween for the exact reasons why you hate it. I like the fact that Michael Meyers is the pure manifestation of evil, that’s what makes the first film genuinely unsettling in my opinion. Far scarier than Predator. Predator is a fun movie, but completely disposable and not scary.

Have you seen The Innocents from 1961? Also, I really enjoy the first two Conjuring movies because they set up a lot of rules for the supernatural and they never break them.

I used to watch them when I was a teenager and a lot of the ones I saw were forgetable. I remember enjoying and being scared by The Omen, Damien Omen 2, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Pet Sematery (yes it’s spelled that way), Friday the 13th, one that was something about did you check the children, and one that was not very popular but I thought it was great, Terror Train (starring Jamie Lee Curtis). I loved loved loved and still love “The Shining” (the first version), and I also really liked The Others. I liked how The Others had the surrpise ending.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre was very creepy to me. Creepy how the townspeople all were in on the conspiracy.

Now, I don’t see horror movies that often. I find them too creepy and scary and I am always afraid they’re going to give me nightmares or make me not want to sleep.

Somewhere—it might have been in an essay by Stephen King—I read that when times are scary-bad, there’s an upsurge in horror stories and movies because that’s just when we want to be reassured that the monster can be vanquished.

Right now, though, it would be hard to make any monsters scarier than the realities.

Personally, I prefer reading genre fiction over watching genre movies, although there are some horror movies I’ve enjoyed. For fiction, I’ve liked a lot of Stephen King and Peter Straub and some of the older masters such as Poe, Le Fanu, et al., and the endlessly creepy “The Monkey’s Paw,” “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and that shudderingly convincing one where the author says he is going to kill you, the reader, and you can’t help believing him. I looked over my shoulder for two days after reading that.

Loved them as a kid. They bor me now.

@Jeruba I heard Stephen King say something similar to that in an interview.

Thanks, @JLeslie. I’ve read a couple of his books about writing, and that idea seems to have a King tag in my memory. It sure made sense to me, in any case.

No, not my thing.

I was sufficiently scared by The Wizard of Oz in 1956 and have never felt the need to repeat it.

Love horror films. The Exorcist that I still can’t watch unless it’s daytime. Lol

Do enjoy all sorts. But for regular revisits until I die here are some favorites…

The Ring
Evil Dead 2
Fright Night 1 and 2
Hammer movies
Monster Squad
Fearless Vampire Hunters
The Howling
American Werewolf in London
Dracula 2000
Blade 1 and 2
Underworld 1 and 2
Wolf

I like vampires and werewolf films so much but not enough good ones are being produced every year so I am seriously considering making an amateur indie movie myself. Lol

My biggest dream movie is to see the definitive adaptation of Stoker’s Dracula, shot in actual film all vibrant and oozing with film grain/texture on the big screen.

Also projected using a film projector not digital projector. This movie should also be shot with only 10 percent digital fx, the rest all practical. And two movie installments btw at 3 hours each. I’m ok if it’s in black and white. Yup. My fantasy movie.

@YARNLADY The “Wizard of Oz” movie wisely left out the part in the book where the Tin Man chopped off the heads of 100 wolves and put their heads in a big pile in a huge pool of blood.

There’s many scenes within the Oz Books that are very weird and creepy. In the several Oz books that I’ve read. Here’s just a few:
-killer “Wheel Men”.
-Tin smith that collects heads that he keeps alive on his shelves.
-A witch that chopped off all the limbs and head from a woods man because he liked her girl slave.
-Invisible killer bears.
-A queen that changes her head as frequently as she changes her clothes.
-Attaching beings that throw their razor sharp heads at you.
-A nome king that turns people into stone figurines.
-Talking rose bushes that float around and demand that a ship wrecked little girl be put to death simply for asking for help.
-A giant woman that lies and tricks the characters to imprison them to humor her.
-People that grow on bushes and get picked when they are ripe.
-An army of young women that overthrew Oz using knitting needles.
-No one ages in Oz. Everyone stays that same age forever. A baby will always stay a baby.
-You can’t be killed in Oz but you can be destroy. (???)
-A small boy finds out that he is actually Ozma of Oz (a girl).
-A pumpkin head being who’s head keeps rotting or falling off.
-Princes Ozma has a picture on the wall that she uses to spy of everyone in Oz.
-Glinda the Good has a magic book that automatically write down everything that happens everywhere in Oz.

My Grandmother sent us 3 Oz books when I was about 7 years old. They creeped me out.

@mazingerz88

I think the closest we’ll ever get to that is Robert Egger’s upcoming version of Nosferatu. It’ll most likely be in black and white, and in Academy ratio, like The Lighthouse. I’m curious to know why he specifically chose Nosferatu and not just Dracula. Considering F.W. Murnau only chose the name Nosferatu because he couldn’t get the rights to Dracula.

^^Great question an interviewer should ask Eggers. Perhaps he feels there is more room in Nosferatu that he could fill in with his own insights on the material and not so much with Stoker’s tale and its movie adaptations which at this point had become too familiar. I love that John Malkovich film where he played Murnau. One of my favorite vampire films along with Jarmusch’s vamp film with Tilda Swinton.

@mazingerz88, is that Only Lovers Left Alive? I found that one creepily tingly. Tilda Swinton has a creepy vibe anyway, in any role, don’t you think?

ohmigosh! Over half of the movies I have recorded right now are horror or suspense. But I scorn the ‘make you jump’ movies and the ‘in your face’ gore ones. Have no respect for the whole chainsaw texas cheerleader elm street zombie scream genre. One of the scariest movies I’ve seen is The Strangers. Have to watch it in the daytime and even then am scared. The Shining was also very scary for me. Any that have to do with the afterlife are borderline for me; I will watch some, but not most. Sinister et.al. and The Conjuring et.al. for example. I’ve watched the first in the series of both and that was enough. I like watching suspense and horror that could theoretically happen for the most part.

Don’t Go Look In The Basement
The intro theme to Alfred Hitchcock
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
The Exorcist
Rosemary’s Baby
The Innocents
Us
Get Out
Carrie
Silence of the Lambs et.al.
Saw et.al.
The Gift with Jason Bateman
There are also some drama/thrillers that I love like The Bone Collector.

Sooo many more

The Audition
Cabin in the Woods
Descent
Dumplings
Let me in
catacombs
Evil dead 2
Dawn of the dead
Fido
Cemetery man
28 days later
Zombieland
The shining
30 days of night
The thing

^Descent is so creepy! I love it.

Today I watched The Ring, Halloween and Us.

I guess I don’t see it listed here. But. I loved the Night of the Living Dead, the re÷make in the ‘80’s, with Candy man in it. And what is roughly it’s sequel Dawn of the Dead, is a movie I have long enjoyed, since before Zombies gained such popularity in modern entertainment…

@Jeruba Yes, that is that Jarmusch film indeed. Excellent acting by all in that excellently brooding vamps movie. Best scene is…well, I’d rather not to avoid spoilers.

Jarmusch tried the same with zombies but missed in that one imo.

Swinton’s a gem. I think she is in another new and interesting piece of film by another unconventional filmmaker. Memoria?

@MrGrimm888 “Oh Barbaraaaa…they’re coming to get you, Barbara!”

Ended up watching Ghost Story, Salem’s Lot ( Rob Lowe ), Twins of Evil and The Invitation this Halloween weekend.

Horror is a cathartic genre. I like it when it can make me feel like my fears are universal fears. I’ve always been too cynical to be affected by jump scares, unless you include the staircase scene from Psycho, if that counts.

On another level I like all forms of horror that are particularly badly conceived or executed, with the exception of grainy, badly mic’d Peter Cushing vampire flicks. I love to mock them, MST3K style. MST3K, also, has some great horror episodes.

Horror will always be a “people’s genre” and play more to common denominators than deep insights, but for the value they do provide, I love them.

I do however reserve the right to close my eyes at the gratuitously sadistic bits. Torture, cutting, etc just skwicks me out.

@smudges: I never heard of “The Gift” but I love Jason Bateman (love formed from “Ozark” lol). I just googled it and I can’t wait to watch it. I see it’s on Netflix (free). It looks very scary!

Right now, I’m watching “The Good Nurse” with Eddie Redmayne, about the serial killer nurse Charles Cullen. It’s technically not a horror movie but it is very scary and creepy, about a nurse who kills his patients. It’s a true story, so technically it’s true crime, but still scary.

@jca2 I’ll have to check out “The Good Nurse”. Love serial killer movies whether they’re crime drama, documentary, suspense or horror!

I’ve watched “The Gift” twice. Very good with twists and turns. Not a true horror, more of a suspense. I think you’ll like it. I loved Ozark! I ignored it for a long time because I thought it was science fiction – have no idea where I got that!

Here’s more; some you may not have heard of but I only put those that I thought were good here:

Don’t Breathe suspense
American Horror Story LOVE
It original
Escape Room
Black Phone sounds familiar but I’m not sure. On my list now tho
Children of the Corn original
Se7en suspense
The Blair Witch Project original
The Fly original
Paranormal Activity et.al.
1408
The Last House on the Left
Fallen suspense John Goodman, Denzel Washington, Donald Sutherland
Misery
The Platform suspense
Hush
Insidious et.al.
1922

Horror is my favorite movie genre. I’ll watch most kinds of horror, including the very disturbing stuff, as long as I see something I can grasp onto or very obvious social commentary. I think horror movies are some of the best kind of movies for examining contemporary societal issues.

I tend to stay away from PG-13 horror, because what is the point?

Give me ridiculous gore because it’s hilarious.
Give me jump scares because they are fun.
Give me slashers because who doesn’t want to watch a bunch of annoying people get hacked to death?
Give me demons/vamps/any scary mythical creature because even though they are not real the concept is cool.
Give me haunted houses because they are creepy and creepy is fun.
Give me body horror because what a body can do to a person is horrifying.
Give me cults because that shit is crazy.

I started watching horror movies at around 8-years-old and during that time what was going on the screen was much less horrifying than what was going on in my life.

^^My ideal next-door neighbor.

Yes, I enjoy all types of films if they are entertaining and captivating.

Horror film can be both very captivating and entertaining, despite the apparent negative aspect of the genre.

A quick list of horror films I think are good films:

The Conjuring: The buildup in this film is very well done. The unfolding of the horror, not as much but still not bad.

The Exorcist: Similar to The Conjuring and a classic. I can still watch this today and enjoy it. So long as you can still get lost in a film, that is for me what makes a good film.

IT Chapter 1 and 2: The execution of these films as well as the story is superb in my opinion. I really want to watch chapter 2 again.

Paranormal Activity: This is a unique film in the genre, at least that I have seen. I haven’t seen The Blair Witch project yet.

There are too many good horror films to list them all.