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When watching a scary movie, what is it you enjoy?
Is it the gory death scenes, or it it being made to jump when the psycho killer springs out in front of some girl?
Some people don't jump at all, so these moments don't effect them. Me? I'm always jumping out of my seat, even when I know what's going to happen. I even jump when they lead you on with their scary music, and you just know something's going to happen, then a cat knocks over a dustbin.
When it comes to movie gore, it just doesn't shock me anymore, and I guess that i get some kind of sick pleasure from it. i'm always pleased when the kille comes up with new and exciting ways to bump off his or her victims. Here are a couple of my favourites from recent years:
Scream: Tatum goes to get some beer from the garage. The killer approaches her. She tries to escape through a cat-flap in a garage, so the killer lifts the door, and she gets crushed!
Urban Legend: A teacher is walking towards his car, the killer is hiding underneath, they slash the teachers Achillies tendons! Teacher crawls around on floor, so killer releases cars handbrake, the car then goes on to crush the teachers head against some of those spikes that deter cars from going the wrong way!
Anyway, is it gore or jumps that draws you to scary movies? Personally I like both!
Is it the gory death scenes, or it it being made to jump when the psycho killer springs out in front of some girl?
Some people don't jump at all, so these moments don't effect them. Me? I'm always jumping out of my seat, even when I know what's going to happen. I even jump when they lead you on with their scary music, and you just know something's going to happen, then a cat knocks over a dustbin.
When it comes to movie gore, it just doesn't shock me anymore, and I guess that i get some kind of sick pleasure from it. i'm always pleased when the kille comes up with new and exciting ways to bump off his or her victims. Here are a couple of my favourites from recent years:
Scream: Tatum goes to get some beer from the garage. The killer approaches her. She tries to escape through a cat-flap in a garage, so the killer lifts the door, and she gets crushed!
Urban Legend: A teacher is walking towards his car, the killer is hiding underneath, they slash the teachers Achillies tendons! Teacher crawls around on floor, so killer releases cars handbrake, the car then goes on to crush the teachers head against some of those spikes that deter cars from going the wrong way!
Anyway, is it gore or jumps that draws you to scary movies? Personally I like both!
I don't think filmmakers are seeing your point of view there, Bluebeetle. Take Arlington Road, not a horror movie but a good example of how the filmmaker can portray an horrific event with realism, and make you leave the movie theatre thinking 'Am I really safe?'.
You know in your heart whilst you watch the film that it is just that, a film, but the subject matter is real enough, it was based on actual events, and the film was portraying an extension of what may actually happen from thereafter. There are plenty of examples of films where you watch it and enjoy it because it is not real, but the trend seems to be more and more to portraying events that 'could' and 'may' happen as soon as you walk away from the screen.
To take a horror movie as an example, think of Hitchcock's 'The Birds'. If you haven't yet seen it, (and you really should, it's one of the all time greats), you might not even notice seagulls when you walk along a beach. But those of us who have seen it, well, who can honestly say that they don't now look at seagulls slightly differently having seen the film?
Again, that film had the ability to strike fear into cinema goers. A fear that can stay with people for a long time.
Other movies you 'know' aren't real would be things like Sci-Fi horror, where the fear lasts only as long as the film, because you know that next time you see a guy choking in a restaurant that a little alien isn't going to suddenly crack its way through his sternum and pop out of his chest.
Or is it?
You know in your heart whilst you watch the film that it is just that, a film, but the subject matter is real enough, it was based on actual events, and the film was portraying an extension of what may actually happen from thereafter. There are plenty of examples of films where you watch it and enjoy it because it is not real, but the trend seems to be more and more to portraying events that 'could' and 'may' happen as soon as you walk away from the screen.
To take a horror movie as an example, think of Hitchcock's 'The Birds'. If you haven't yet seen it, (and you really should, it's one of the all time greats), you might not even notice seagulls when you walk along a beach. But those of us who have seen it, well, who can honestly say that they don't now look at seagulls slightly differently having seen the film?
Again, that film had the ability to strike fear into cinema goers. A fear that can stay with people for a long time.
Other movies you 'know' aren't real would be things like Sci-Fi horror, where the fear lasts only as long as the film, because you know that next time you see a guy choking in a restaurant that a little alien isn't going to suddenly crack its way through his sternum and pop out of his chest.
Or is it?
First we have to find out why we watch scary movies. Ultimately, I can think of two reasons to watch scary movies.
1. To place yourself inside the killer/ghost/monsters mind. You get a feel of power. Sick as it is that's probably why people watch scary movies. An example of this would be American Psycho. You are never scared properly and you would like Patrick Bateman you rip some prostitutes @ss.
2. To have sherpards pie in you pants. You place yourself into the victims. You wan to poo your pants scared. An example of this would be scream. No one likes the man in the mask. In the garage scene you want to be scared. You beg to be scare.
I cant think of any other reason apart from the two above.
1. To place yourself inside the killer/ghost/monsters mind. You get a feel of power. Sick as it is that's probably why people watch scary movies. An example of this would be American Psycho. You are never scared properly and you would like Patrick Bateman you rip some prostitutes @ss.
2. To have sherpards pie in you pants. You place yourself into the victims. You wan to poo your pants scared. An example of this would be scream. No one likes the man in the mask. In the garage scene you want to be scared. You beg to be scare.
I cant think of any other reason apart from the two above.
I enjoy the gory death scenes more than anything - It may sound like a sick and twisted thing but thats why I watch horror!! With a collection of over 60 horror films I must have about (roughly) 350 death scenes that I watch over and over!!!
When watching a scary movie, what is it you enjoy?
Is it the gory death scenes, or it it being made to jump when the psycho killer springs out in front of some girl?
Some people don't jump at all, so these moments don't effect them. Me? I'm always jumping out of my seat, even when I know what's going to happen. I even jump when they lead you on with their scary music, and you just know something's going to happen, then a cat knocks over a dustbin.
When it comes to movie gore, it just doesn't shock me anymore, and I guess that i get some kind of sick pleasure from it. i'm always pleased when the kille comes up with new and exciting ways to bump off his or her victims. Here are a couple of my favourites from recent years:
Scream: Tatum goes to get some beer from the garage. The killer approaches her. She tries to escape through a cat-flap in a garage, so the killer lifts the door, and she gets crushed!
Urban Legend: A teacher is walking towards his car, the killer is hiding underneath, they slash the teachers Achillies tendons! Teacher crawls around on floor, so killer releases cars handbrake, the car then goes on to crush the teachers head against some of those spikes that deter cars from going the wrong way!
Anyway, is it gore or jumps that draws you to scary movies? Personally I like both!
Is it the gory death scenes, or it it being made to jump when the psycho killer springs out in front of some girl?
Some people don't jump at all, so these moments don't effect them. Me? I'm always jumping out of my seat, even when I know what's going to happen. I even jump when they lead you on with their scary music, and you just know something's going to happen, then a cat knocks over a dustbin.
When it comes to movie gore, it just doesn't shock me anymore, and I guess that i get some kind of sick pleasure from it. i'm always pleased when the kille comes up with new and exciting ways to bump off his or her victims. Here are a couple of my favourites from recent years:
Scream: Tatum goes to get some beer from the garage. The killer approaches her. She tries to escape through a cat-flap in a garage, so the killer lifts the door, and she gets crushed!
Urban Legend: A teacher is walking towards his car, the killer is hiding underneath, they slash the teachers Achillies tendons! Teacher crawls around on floor, so killer releases cars handbrake, the car then goes on to crush the teachers head against some of those spikes that deter cars from going the wrong way!
Anyway, is it gore or jumps that draws you to scary movies? Personally I like both!