Horror movies

I used to like horror movies, but I haven't for years. Once you realize Hell is a real place, horror movies lose whatever perverse appeal they had on you previously.

If you are talking about gore porn movies, it tends to lean to the dumb ass masochistic sociopath youth faggots who think their lives are hard and have ZERO fucking social skill/live skills. NOW as for real Horror, I am no were near knowledgeable enough to know what true horror movie is, because in contrast I can just look at real life and be pretty disgusted with it. I would actually like to hear what Holla Forums has to say what a good Horror movie is.

Yeah, that is my point. Once you see what people are fucking brainwashed to think now a days and trust/need. That can be pretty horrific in itself.

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The enjoyment of a good horror movie comes not from seeing people die, but from the stuggle for survival. Also cool monster designs.

Then why are modern horror movies just closeups of realistic looking gore and mutilation/torture porn?

Pretty much this. It's the tension and stakes that draw you into a horror film, not the gore or violence.

If it helps, then you should treat horror flicks like realistic action films. People in horror films get permanently injured by suffering from broken legs, loss of light, or hurt by glass/vehicles. Whereas, Liam Nelson from Taken can hop into windows and bullets without being greatly hurt.

Yeah, they aren't really scary for me either and I'm pretty religious. If you think about it, Christ's suffering is worse than that of any horror film victim. He loses all status, becomes whipped hundreds of times, becomes mocked relentlessly by the public, forced to carry his cross for miles while being whipped again, nailed helplessly in all four limbs in front of his relatives, and slowly dies in close proximity to a murderer and a thief.

Because they aren't good horror movies. They're gore porn.

Good points here.
Movies focusing on the gore are most often shit. Things like "Jaws" and "Ghost & Darkness" scare the daylights out of me but gore centered movies just make me go "That is pretty gross".

Is that picture supposed to scare/disgust me?
looks like red paint

It's water. The image is shopped.

For some, horror is a lifestyle choice. A culture unto itself with its own circles and conventions. There's music, collectables, and all manner of Autism Chow™ with horror movies as the focul point. For a lot of us, I think, it starts in childhood, or early teen years. In the long forgotten era of VHS Rental Stores you and your mates had to physically peruse rows of mysterious and gonzo box art. When you're younger, your imagination is much more potent, and the suggestion that what you were getting into was meant to scare you was oftentimes more palpable than the actual terror the film might deliver. There is an entire ritual of anticipation there that is sadly lost in the modern age.

Horror cinema serves a multitude of purposes. The audience knowing that the violence potrayed is fictional serves as a healthy conduit for our more base and psychotic urges toward violence. There's also an absence of guilt to the theatrics, something most reasonable people feel when watching actually human life violently extinguished. I happen to enjoy snuff, but near as I can tell I am in the minority. That's the theory anyway.

Horror can also be fun. Be it with jumpscares or horrific gore, is definitely a legit tactic to get qts to snuggle close. Especially the coy ones who might find scary or bloody things taboo. You definitely don't get that when you try to show them anything on liveleak. Save that shit for after you guys have fucked a bunch.

take your girlfriend to a scary movie, she will fuck you

Shieeet you are one witty cunt.

Why go all the way to OP's house when I can just watch your sister on livestream?

Horror fans have mental problems

Hell is a real place. We're in it

Horror movies are great to watch with other people. They're pretty much all I will watch with my friends, to be honest. I have come to the realization that I cannot watch anything I already actually like with most people.

Alfred Hitchcock said watching a horror movies gives one the same pleasure as waking up from a nightmare.

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end it anytime faggot

Good horror movies tend to deal with things like atmosphere, suspense, and fear of the unknown rather than just blood and guts.

Horror isn't for everyone. If you don't understand it then fuck off.

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It is just a shit genre at least today. Maybe in the past there were good movies that were able to scare without resorting to gore but not today.

Watching a movie to get scared isn't the same as liking horror. Horror can be scary, but producing shock isn't the point. The point is the feeling of joy you experience as you watch ordinary, helpless people suffer.

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You definitely don't understand, mainly in slashers when you're watching you get a false sense of hope towards the characters and then to crush your expectations, they die brutally in a variety of manners; usually watching horror movies is more about getting that false sense of hope and then feel it crushed afterwards, even if you're aware of it from the beginning, even cheering the villain itself than the characters against it, like in Fly 1 and 2, or Jason through the series, I mean, how many slashers in the mainstream media we developed a love instead of hate because of the genre and how they're built, there is definitely something pleasurable in watching these kind of movies and understanding the scheme.

Horror movies are for manchildren and teenager girls who are scared of dark rooms.

Look at this faggotry.

So you have a gore fetish. Die, degenerate.

So do you have a poor mentality and it's easily lead by the faggots at Holla Forums. I want the bloody bonkers to leave.

lol do degenerates even here their own sophistry or is it doomed to echo in the empty gas chambers of their mind as "reason"?

Fuck off already faggot. He answered you three times and yet you're still being a nigger fuck.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is Holla Forums trying to give Holla Forums a bad image.

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Yeah hi actual degenerate here. Leave the horrorfriends alone. Extolling the genre based on the peaks and valleys of a fictional character's struggle for survival is, I think, an even handed observation of the genre's appeal, as it mirrors our own personal struggles against mortality. Horror is also often symbolically linked to sex and sexuality, with high stakes power struggles, penetration and relinquishing of fluids typical tropes of the genre alongside more literal depictions of the act itself. Horror's prerequisite is fear, fear is an inexorable but oft unspoken aspect of sexuality.
So here we have the artistic expression of two of mankinds oldest, most personal and primal conflicts expressed within a single genre (with varying degrees of quality, of course). The want to explore these ideas is as natural as breathing oxygen, and for many this genre is that outlet. So what I'm asking is, how exactly is watching dumb gore schlock actually degenerate?

Stop being an asshole and a retard.
Nobody really watches horror films for gore and blood, maybe slasher fans but that's an entirely different subgenre. They watch it to get a thrill of fear through sympathy of the characters and through atmosphere and suspense.
Some of the best horror films have low body counts and barely any gore.
Films like the Entity or Don't Look Now or the Omen or the Exorcist don't require gore or shock tactics, it's about the atmosphere and terror in every second.
To say horror is purely gore is like saying action films are purely about explosions, it goes deeper than that.

Holy kek, you get a really strange and interesting conception of what horror means or about the genre itself, it's true, some people associates the horror or the despicable like gore or torture to sexuality, hence bondage or torture porn, Hellraiser as an example and a fuckton of revenge porn movies, personally I like horror because it grinds my gears, if it's something that drives me to some degree of pleasure then yes, it might be associated with what you say. And here I thought I couldn't reach something interesting out of this board, what a surprise

Then why aren't there any movies today that don't overly rely on gore?

the hills have eyes
saw 1 - 9000
wolf creek
chainsaw massacre remake
hostel

Todays "horror" movies strive to show as much gore as possible so normies can be like "wow did you see that? fucking sick brah!"

Wow. You named five movies. You surely know this genre inside out.

Blair witch Project
The Babadook
Possession movies

Oh shit son, it's almost like those films exist where they come at it from a different angle. As someone who really enjoys found footage movies (fuck off) I rarely find them to be blood baths.

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I think someone already said about 10 Cloverfield Lane and the first Cloverfield Lane, the last one relying much more on motherfucking good acting and atmosphere instead of blood baths and letting the found footage thing out. Thriller plus Terror equals good movies when done in equal, if you dig deep you can find good movies in the genre who don't rely on normies and plebs, like Southbound, who also did a good work in my opinion on the entertainment and atmosphere.

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Uh huh.. Would you like me to point out more sub genres like the haunted house one or the "We go to find some mystic because we miss a dead child and the ghost comes back evil" subgenre that's popular right now?

What about Pontypool? A movie with almost no gore built entirely around being trapped inside a radio station with an unknown virus turning people into zombies?

Top lel m8, I was downloading this movie right now. Also, forgot to quote Session 9, who also was probably cited in the thread but I'm a lazy fucker and I don't want to ctrl+f it, great movie, did two twists in less than 15 minutes and it blows your mind if you aren't prepared for it.

You do realize most of the films you cited were released a decade or more ago, right? Also I'll see your list and raise you a bunch of recent horror films that are virtually bloodless.
Paranormal Activity Series
Insidious Trilogy
The Taking of Deborah Logan
Haunter
The Visit
The Boy
It Follows
We Are Still Here (cont.)

We Are Still Here
The Babadook
The Conjuring 1 & 2
Haunt
The Viel
We Are What We Are
The Gallows
Krampus
The Witch
Oujia
Poltergiest
Gee homeboy, it's almost like you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

Never heard of that movie

It's not a movie. It's kino.

:^)

Oh that makes sense, thanks fam

Because those films were made by talentless hacks whose understanding of what's scary and creepy are buckets of blood and guts. Nobody praises those films like the ones before the 2000s or the films that actually rely on atmosphere and tension, like what
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It turned into that user, it didn't start as it.

It's one of the few sites that has a userbase that outdoes youtube in terms of sheer stupidity.

Also, horror movies don't always have to have sadistic, bloody death scenes.
The best shit is left to the imagination.

Literally everyone has heard of that movie.
You don't exist.

I disagree, the vast majority of horror movies in the past were shit and had awful atmosphere/sound/visuals, and most of them resorted to shitty looking gore to gross people out. If modern horror has any consistent problem then it's resorting to shots of an ambiguous silhouette in the distance standing still looking at the camera as well as jumpscares.

Modern horror has It Follows, arguably Green Room (surface elements aren' horror but it's shot like one), The Last Circus, and the first half of the Babadook. OG horror has Alien, Jacob's Ladder, The Shining, and The Thing (which were released over a much larger span of time).

If anyone has some movies that I'm missing let me know, but if it's some cheesy slasher or shitty haunted house movie then please kill yourself instead of replying.

Are you aware It Follows repeats the same formula as the old Slashers like The First Halloween? it's of course better in a certainty of cases but it's the same scheme, Slashers were one of the best in my opinion branches of the genre, today you can probably pull off something good and cheesy like Chromeskull but not as classic as the old mainstream ones, but you're right in the overall, Horror today is very difficult to discern in what's good, and what's is bad, and what occupies the middle ground, too much cheesiness being done and too much hidden gems being discovered slowly.

I don't have any problem with the premise of a slasher, I specifically said "cheesy" slashers. It Follows has the surface elements of a slasher in the way that Game of Thrones has the same surface elements of the Dungeons and Dragons movie. Whether you liked the movie or not I don't think anyone could really say that It Follows was cheesy either.

It also deviated in a couple notable ways, most slashers are sorta shot from the perspective of the killer as they stalk their prey, while It Follows puts the killer in the background a lot of the time. There were also only two deaths in the entire movie, and one of them wasn't a main character and only died in the intro to setup the monster. And lastly the main characters all play it reasonably smart for the most part, which is almost never the case in a cheesy slasher.

I also thought it was interesting that there was only one part of the whole movie that had blood/gore, which was just the intro death which they just showed the corpse of. Traditional slashers are all about gratuitous blood and gore.