[Film] Horror/Slasher/Gore etc.

[Easy 10]

Acting is by definition lying and I have no idea why anyone would pay or even waste their time consuming it.

I'd rather look at a tree, it's far more interesting.

Wow, thats quite the statement.

My life has been totally enriched by enjoying acting performances from (off top of head), Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Daniel Day Lewis, Clint Eastwood, Gary Oldman, Samuel L Jackson, Henry Fonda. I could go on.

Waste of time ? Blimey.

 

[birthofanorange]

Wow, thats quite the statement.

My life has been totally enriched by enjoying acting performances from (off top of head), Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Daniel Day Lewis, Clint Eastwood, Gary Oldman, Samuel L Jackson, Henry Fonda. I could go on.

Waste of time ? Blimey.

As you said, there are some interesting answers.

 

[BadFish]

I love horror, can take or leave the gore and struggle with the torture.

Horror feels like it has hit a renaissance over the last 10 years or so. Of course it maybe that my kids are older and I have reconnected with a shared love of it.

Off the top of my head recently I have enjoyed:
Midsummer
Hereditary
Much of the conjuring universe
Talk to me (Aussie low budget job)
Long legs
Bodies bodies bodies
Ready or not
Heretic
The haunting of Hill house
The haunting of Blyth manor
Most by Blumhouse

 

[BadFish]

Can't say I've ever felt genuinely SCARED by a horror film, but I do really enjoy the feeling of tension. Sadly, really good horrors are very few and far between.

Under those terms, I would say Alien and The Shining are two masterpieces of their genre. Both very different, but utterly gripping from start to finish.

For outright GORE, I went to see one of the Saw movies at the cinema once, and there was a sequence when they were cutting someones brain open. It was just so gruesome, all close-up, spared nothing, that I ended up going for a piss because it was making me feel quite queasy.

So yeah, a film has never instilled fear in me. But I'll enjoy the ride if its well crafted and makes me tense.

Good thread @birthofanorange, should have some interesting answers.

I don't think I feel that much fear during a horror film but I like the ones that kinda stick with you.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I grew up on a staple diet of the above films (Dracula,Frankenstein, Werewolf etc), yet from then until now, have never been 'scared' to watch them. I guess that's partly because I always understood that like all films, they're simply that....just films - made-up stories for entertainment using actors and not real.
I've known so many people who cannot watch them (adults too), not because they just don't like them, but because they actually find them scary.
Not bothering with a poll, but who here falls into which category, and why?

Love all the Hammer Horror but, let's face it, the appeal is the heaving bosoms.
When I was 11 (OK, 40*) this was nectar.

No time at all for nastiness.
I hate cruelty.

*OK, 66

 

[birthofanorange]

Aside from just curiosity, I can think of a few prior experiences which prompted me to post this thread:
On one occasion, myself and my partner were on hols abroad, and she woke myself (and probably half the block) by screaming in the middle of the night, due to a book she was reading, by Tess Gerritsen, yet she is fine with horror films and such-like.
On a personal level, I wrote a rather gory poem, at school, which was voted by fellow pupils as the one to be read-out in some kind of assembly nonsense, at the end of term.
That actually resulted in the teachers/headmistress arranging a meeting with a child psychologist, of all things.
For myself and classmates, it was just a made-up tale.
This was mid-70's, so maybe too early for that kind of stuff, although it was very, very tame, if I recall correctly.

 

[birthofanorange]

Love all the Hammer Horror but, let's face it, the appeal is the heaving bosoms.
When I was 11 (OK, 40*) this was nectar.

No time at all for nastiness.
I hate cruelty.

*OK, 66

Yutte Stensgaard in 'Lust for a Vampire' springs to mind.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Yutte Stensgaard in 'Lust for a Vampire' springs to mind.

Madeline Smith and Ingrid Pitt.

 

[birthofanorange]

Madeline Smith and Ingrid Pitt.

We may well have strayed into Horroticca here - probably no such word, but I like it.
Thing is, none of them were scary, yet plenty of folk couldn't watch them....despite the 'heaving bosoms'.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

We may well have strayed into Horroticca here - probably no such word, but I like it.
Thing is, none of them were scary, yet plenty of folk couldn't watch them....despite the 'heaving bosoms'.

What were they thinking?

 

[pocketseagull]

Loved gory horror films when I was younger but got squeamish and tend to avoid ott gore now.

I've never felt scared by a horror but https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/red_rooms is genuinely unsettling. Quite a remarkable film that stayed with me.



Agree that The Shining and Alien are top tier.

 

[clapham_gull]

Wow, thats quite the statement.

And it's one I'm consistent with. I'll still get absorbed by Alan Partridge though, but in my mind that's very different.

Sorry hate drama the worst being live theatre which frankly I'd make illegal.

 

[birthofanorange]

Loved gory horror films when I was younger but got squeamish and tend to avoid ott gore now.

I've never felt scared by a horror but https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/red_rooms is genuinely unsettling. Quite a remarkable film that stayed with me.



Agree that The Shining and Alien are top tier.

I'll check that one out too. With regard to 'being scared', I kinda lump that in with 'unsettling', as unless the plot is based on real events, it's simply entertainment (whether one finds such films entertaining or not).
I've been known to 'jump' on occasion - think the head popping out in Jaws, or the face-hugger scene in Alien, but they have not actually scared me, as films are fake, yet reality can be truly scary.

 

[birthofanorange]

And it's one I'm consistent with. I'll still get absorbed by Alan Partridge though, but in my mind that's very different.

Sorry hate drama the worst being live theatre which frankly I'd make illegal.

Do you read fiction?

 

[herecomesaregular]

Eden Lake
The Vanishing (original not the remake).

Both scary because you know they could happen.

Other horrors (Poltergeist, Exorcist), serial killer or Longlegs type stuff I really enjoy but they don't scare me as such.

 

[clapham_gull]

Do you read fiction?

Only NSC

 

[birthofanorange]

Only NSC

Hmm...I only ask as all works of fiction, from the Bible to Steven King and beyond are by definition written by the literary equivalent of acting 'liars'.

 

[clapham_gull]

Hmm...I only ask as all works of fiction, from the Bible to Steven King and beyond are by definition written by the literary equivalent of acting 'liars'.

I don't read fiction. I find it very interesting how sensitive others are when I talk about what I do or don't. The response is very consistent. Do you take what I do as a judgement on yourself ?

 

[birthofanorange]

I don't read fiction. I find it very interesting how sensitive others are when I talk about what I do or don't.

Not at all sensitive, I just find it fascinating that you've never read/enjoyed reading a work of fiction.

 

[clapham_gull]

Not at all sensitive, I just find it fascinating that you've never read/enjoyed reading a work of fiction.

Where did I type never read ?

As a lover of fiction you appear to be writing your own.

I find you more fascinating by the way as a lover of fiction.