Horror Movies --- and the people the directors/writers.

Most of us find ourselves renting or actually going to see a movie in an actual theater (rare these days considering its 11 bucks) for the sheer thrill of being scared. I'm guilty of it, I do it often. After I watch some of these movies, for example SAW I, II, and III, I wonder about the minds that thought these movies up. What bothers me about it is that somebody had to take the time and the effort to think of something so complicated, morbid and twisted. Then I thought, what brings the desire to watch it? After these movies, I usually wish I'd never sat down to watch it, but I always seem to find my way to another.

Has anyone else thought about this?

Well...I never watch horror movies. I don't like them. I feel sick after watching them. I see no point watching something to make me scare.

Well... I have notice that persons who have seen in real life something REALLY terrible don't watch them. It was enough. Like for me...I have seen enough nightmares...

There is much better things to do than wasting my time or money for it. (for my opinion) :)

I have to be honest,I hate gorry movies,I don't mind a scary plot but can't stand limbs being torn off and such.I avoid them.

I'm picky with my horror movies

for example I HATE rob zombie films because as in the case of house of 1,000 corpses, the devil's rejects, and the halloween remake that it seems he thinks throwing in lots of profanity, a raping, and too much twisted gore that it makes a good horror movie

I can't disuade anyone who thinks otherwise but personally I don't like such movies, I like horror movies such as the first Halloween, the scream trilogy, and the mist

I just don't think you need two orderlies raping a chick in Michael Myer's room at smith's grove sanitarium, or making a woman jerk off with a loaded gun as in the devil's rejects

If there are real life videos of people being mutilated, for instance the video of the American prisoner being decapitated by Iraq soldiers, I refuse to watch it ... but when it comes to a movie, its fine. It makes no sense!!

I think that fear is one of the most fascinating emotions to feel. It's unpleasant, and yet we crave it. I don't know why I would want to be scared, and that's always intrigued me.

^I always said Steven King has the mind of a serial killer....^

I have said the same thing! He, M. Night Shamalan and the guy who made the Saw movies!

I love M night Shymalan. Just had to throw that in, his suspense movies ar ethe ones I enjoy watching the m ost in that genre.

Everyone has a dark side. We tend not to express it to its full extent and we have different extremes to our evils obviously. It's thrilling in a disturbing sense to witness abnormal events that are thought about, perhaps unwillingly, but are oppressed by social norms and ETHICS to suppress.. Evil and the infliction of harm on others is real, although it's taboo. Nightmares are real, figuratively, (if you can excuse my oxymoron). Just as sex is taboo in most cultures, to a degree, we have a desire to engage in it.
Most people are capable of thinking up terrible things, but most people don't have the resources or creativity to formulate a story line and produce a blockbuster, let alone an indie film. We leave it to those who do, then pay our 11 bucks to watch the product. Also, watching is not necessarily participating--completely subjective--and so we can engage in our 'subconcious' without being participatory or responsible. Why not?

Bob, one kid will laugh when they see another trip, one kid will ask if they're alright. That's individualistic and situational. You're being negative.

"If there are real life videos of people being mutilated, for instance the video of the American prisoner being decapitated by Iraq soldiers, I refuse to watch it ... but when it comes to a movie, its fine. It makes no sense!!"

Um, of course it makes sense. How about one is real and the other is not? Fake blood vs. real blood. Fake pain vs. real pain. Actors vs. real people.........

11 dollars?! I'll stick to my $8.50, thank you. ;)

I remember when I first watched The Sixth Sense at my Grandpappy's house. We watched it at night and I was terrified! But the movie I'll never forget that I used to have nightmares about every night and couldn't watch TV alone for forever was The Ring.

Where I live it's actually $7, but after 6:00pm it's $8.50. I usually watch my movies after six.

To me, horror movies fulfill the need to understand true depraved evil, and funnily enough this actually happens in the world and the movies are merely a variation of it...

What makes horror truly scary is the fact that it changes through each generation... becoming more reality based than fictionalised...

Now rather than Carrie or Jason or Nosforatu, its sadistic traffickers and torture snuff enthusiasts

^Bob, one kid will laugh when they see another trip, one kid will ask if they're alright.^

We usually ask if they are alright and then laugh if they are !!LOL!!