I haven't posted in a while, so I thought I would write about a discussion I had with my boyfriend last weekend. I wanted to watch a scary movie which lead to the topic of what "kind" of scary movie. I can't really decide which type of movie actually is the scariest.
I personally don't enjoy the movies based on true events (not ghosts, but like "Ted Bundy" and whatnot). I'll watch Criminal Minds and Law and Order any day, but for some reason, I don't like the full length movies detailing the crimes. Even the documentaries aren't so bad, it's just the movies. I guess these are scary because they actually did happen. Is anyone else with me on this?
I have seen few of the "classic" horror movies because I know how scary they're supposed to be. The ones with monsters, like "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Halloween" have reputations that I've known my whole life, and so have avoided them. I finally watched the horrifying story of Freddy Kreuger last October and wasn't actually bothered. My mom, who's a horror aficionado, had to leave the theatre when this movie came out. Have we become less susceptible to monster movies lately? Does it take the real thing to scare us now? Now our monster movies try to be real, like "Paranormal Activity" using the whole documentary filming technique.
And then there's the psychological movies. These scare me, but in more of a "car heading my way in the street" rather than a "going down the first ramp of a rollercoaster" sort of way. They're fun sometimes, but they give me the worst nightmares for sure. "The Shining" has always and will always be the scariest movie to me. I can't even put into words why, but it is.
True, these all scare me and I'll be up all night after watching them, but I'm curious, if a group of people were polled, which would be called the "scariest" type of movie. What do you guys think?
2 comments:
To me the scariest movies are those that are based on true events, like the Strangers. These scare me because they are actually based on something that happened and therefore could happen again. Ghost and demon movies don't scare me beyond the occasional jumpy moment in the theater because I don't believe that it could happen to me and I don't take it seriously.
It's really hard for me to say, since I won't watch scary movies for the most part--because, to me, they're both equally scary. Even if I can convince myself there aren't ghosts, I can still psych myself out enough to not be able to fall asleep at night. But I will say I will NOT watch a movie like The Strangers--scary movies based on real events would just make me even more afraid of just living in the real world. ><
Maybe I'm a scaredy-cat... but I like to think of it as having a very active, creative imagination.
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