[Closed] Would you watch a horror on your own?

never

Good question. On Thursday on BBC 4 they showed The Conjuring, luckily it's zoom call night. So I didn't watch it.
The Ring and Candyman gave me colonic irrigation for months.

How can it be scary when you are drinking beer and eating fkn Pringles?

Lol, wot they sad /\/\

Absolutely, love a good horror. Especially love the jump scares. Have you seen the Nun, in the conjuring universe? That's good.

SAY! IN THE DARK? HERE IN THE DARK!
WOULD YOU, COULD YOU, IN THE DARK?
I WOULD NOT, COULD NOT, IN THE DARK.

Right, serious response.

Yes, why not.

But. It’s literally a recording of some actors pretending something that isn’t happening is happening, and only in short bursts as they film different scenes. Does anyone actually get scared by these things?

I get more worked over by documentaries tbh.

Real Life, riding a road bike and the news scare me far more than a horror film.

I may well be a big girls blouse

Yes, you are 🙂

Definitely. Love a good horror film. It's being harder to find them, though.

Also, what @jamesoz said.

Yes, coz it's scary. That's the whole point!

However, I can't go on any fairground rides at all. None of them. The fear they induce in me is overwhelming. I can take it.

My daughter reckons it's a control thing. Movies, I'm in control. Fairground, I'm not...

See also, motorbikes or 36.6 mph (Strava) down a local trail.

Humans enjoy being scared.

Some video games are worse.
You're sitting close to the screen, headphones on and lights out.

Playing the character in some dark basement or industrial complex, with only an unreliable torch that projects little light.....

Big girls blouse here.

I won’t watch horror movies at all. Salem’s Lot as a child was more than enough for me.

Mark, open the window....

Yeah I watched that as a child alone.

Mark, open the window….

Yeah I watched that as a child alone.

Yeah, but did you have the loft door in your bedroom ? And my bed was orientated so i was facing it. 😆

dyna-ti
Some video games are worse.
You’re sitting close to the screen, headphones on and lights out.

This. Memories of the first Silent Hill game on PS1 still strong. Proper scary.

A film is passive - you know its not real. A game plays more games (surely not?!?) with your mind as you're part of it.

Always. I prefer to watch them on my own but most of the time the story lines are just poor. The special effects make them slightly bearable to watch.

I rather prefer Keanu Reeves in that movie with good fighting evil action pack scence because that's much more fun to watch.

A good horror should have good story line like the Omen ... much more relax to watch but if I watch it nowadays I will just fall asleep but still good.

Hammer Horror is the best for me ...

When I watch a horror movie the movie gets scared.

Yeah no bother.

But I also quite enjoy a nightmare to the point they're not really nightmares.

I'd rather watch a genuinely scary thriller thing than a gorey film though.

Film I can't watch like I hide under the covers until it's over are awkward films. I can cope with social discomfort. Like in the slightest, if there is too much I have to turn it off.

Depends, I'm not into horror specifically, they're often shit films (poor acting no plot etc) with just the flimsiest excuse for gore special effects, and that's a bit boring. Proper physiological stuff, no, I'd like some-one else to be suffering along with me.

Currently working my way through the Walking Dead.

I've become so desensitised to zombies that when I see one I will just calmly and matter of factly drive a kitchen knife through its brain and go on about my business.

I never watch horror, or anything gory or excessively graphically violent. I just don't enjoy it.

I'll see your big girls blouse and raise you a billowing summer dress

I’d watch one no bother. It’s just a film after all. I’m currently trying to get through Black Earth by Timothy Schneider - that is much more effective at giving you nightmares and I’ve had to have a couple of breaks from it, as I was having trouble sleeping after reading it!!

Some video games are worse.
You’re sitting close to the screen, headphones on and lights out.

I’ve not been scared by a horror since I was a kid, probably watching them alone from a very young age helped. Salem’s Lot the floating kid can **** right off. However, Resident Evil Village spooked me a few times.

I can watch slasher films and the like with no issues. Some of the more psychological or supernatural stuff can **** right off and I can’t watch them. Very odd as I don’t believe in the supernatural.

I sometimes watch a horror by myself, in the dark, but I'm heading in the same direction MCTD is. Never watched any of the SAW films. For some reason I had Caveat on a watchlist so I thought I'd watch it. Starts with a girl in a dingey basement holding up some gnarly old toy rabbit with a drum thing in her hands pointing it at doorways. Sends shivers down my spine just thinking about it. The fear/anticipation of what is behind the door to make the toy rabbit start drumming. Went through a phase with dreams filled with similar stuff. Turned the film off when the girl went through the door and down the steps. Barely 5 minutes! Might brave it, although reviews not looking great!

The only thing on telly that's every genuinely terrified me (and lots of other people judging by the reaction) was Ghos****ch on the BBC.

But then I was 10 years old and thought it was a real live documentary. I fully fell for it. I had dreams about it for weeks.

Anyone remember it?

I made the mistake of watching Hereditary on my own. Jeebus!!! That haunted me for months

Anyone remember it?

Classic comedy, but yes it seem to spook a nation.

Salem’s lot lols - I’d probably watch that for the nostalgia value. I still remember marvelling at the novelty of seeing ‘Hutch’ in another role…

Yep, I love good horror films. Not the over gory ones like Saw as they just bore the crap out of me. I like proper spooky films. I love things like where the camera is focused on something or someone then something will quickly move or appear in the background briefly.

Depends on the content. Have lived alone from time to time and have watched a lot of horror films (including/especially at those times). But for whatever reason not ‘The Shining’. I remember it showing late one night while living alone out in the sticks. Was surprised that I chose ‘no’.

Similarly for ‘The Haunting’ (1963). Amusing and camp in parts, but then:

Similarly for ‘The Haunting’ (1963). Amusing and camp in parts, but then:

Gooses suitably bumped!

I find GB News the most scary thing on tv.

I can't watch horror movies without constantly spotting the clichés.
Can someone recommend me recent horror movies that deliver the scares in an innovative way?
No creepy-spooky-freaky movements ghouls, cut/jump frights, final girl, killed during sex, unkillable villan etc etc...

How about Get Out (2017)? I've not watched it of course, but friends who like that sort thing like it.

Willing suspension of disbelief...

@seadog101 I thought The Ring was quite innovative.

I can’t watch horror movies without constantly spotting the clichés.
Can someone recommend me recent horror movies that deliver the scares in an innovative way?
No creepy-spooky-freaky movements ghouls, cut/jump frights, final girl, killed during sex, unkillable villan etc etc…

The answer has to be Midsommar, hasn't it? About as unconventional as you can get and still really, really creepy?

I don’t watch them at all. Not for reasons of fear, just that they bore me. Suspending belief doesn’t work for me. Now serious psychological thrillers. Those are different. The real skill is in what you don’t need to show not what you do. Realistic violence can be brutal enough to properly shock when done well. Those films are much more disturbing than some gruesome shokka.

Old by Shyamalan looked rather good. So bought the book (graphic novel) instead and now wonder how well the film stacks up.

I rewatched Ghos****ch pretty recently, still very creepy at times, surprisingly subtle at times (or rather unsubtle on the face of it, but there's another layer underneath). Terrorised me when it was first on- not helped I think that we didn't get to watch the end when it got really over the top.

dyna-ti
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Some video games are worse.
You’re sitting close to the screen, headphones on and lights out.

Playing the character in some dark basement or industrial complex, with only an unreliable torch that projects little light…..

I think it was resident evil 2 that made me fall completely off my seat and land on my head. Dog jumped through the window, poos came out.

I can’t watch horror movies without constantly spotting the clichés.
Can someone recommend me recent horror movies that deliver the scares in an innovative way?
No creepy-spooky-freaky movements ghouls, cut/jump frights, final girl, killed during sex, unkillable villan etc etc…

Good shouts for Get Out and Midsomer. Also Saint Maud was great in an understated, creepy way.

Yes, could, have done many times, don't any more as life's too short, I find other genres much more interesting than straightforward horror, for me the best nearest close relative is psychological thrillers.

Get Out was excellent.

s/a We Need to Talk About Kevin.

The real skill is in what you don’t need to show not what you do. Realistic violence can be brutal enough to properly shock when done well. Those films are much more disturbing than some gruesome shokka.

Realistic violence (done realistically) is rather different for me than ‘gruesome’. I prefer chillers, psychological thrillers, monster mayhem, camp classics and flights of fancy to realistic violence. One viewing of Schindler’s List was enough to put me off ‘realistic violence’ forever. Midsommar was an excellent film, but could have done without the graphic head-traumas (?). The violence in ‘Funny Games’ (Michael Haneke/1997) was IMO perfectly realistic, so much so that I was just left feeling sickened.

Can someone recommend me recent horror movies that deliver the scares in an innovative way?

Depends I suppose what counts as ‘horror/scares’? Supernatural/chills or grisly violence? Psychological terror or ? Eerie science-fiction or monster-mangling? Absurdist psycho-drama?

I enjoyed ‘The Witch’ (Robert Eggers) for it’s trip into a family’s puritanical/superstitious hysteria (or were they?) Genuinely creeping unease (even terror) throughout the film.

Also enjoyed ‘In Fabric’. Not a clue what was happening though 😆. It felt like Dario Argento channelling neo-giallo films while off his ya-yas on some Hammer-Horror-laced LSD

I broadly agree that horror film content has become so predictable. Likewise with predictably formulaic sub-genres

https://popcornhorror.com/genres/

I do enjoy a good horror film, but typically I don't find them that scary.

Games on the other hand.

Memories of the first Silent Hill game on PS1 still strong. Proper scary.

I actually gave up playing Silent Hill, it just freaked me out too much. I just about tolerated the ghostly children, but when I got to the sewers I just gave up. Most of the Resident Evil games had a good sense of creeping dread but I don't think I've ever played anything that had the sustained level of unpleasantness as Silent Hill

Silent Hill (and Silent Hill 2) just managed such an incredible level on intense, creeping dread. I've never experienced anything quite like it.

I still remember the first time it 'changed' in Silent Hill, going through the clock tower in the school and wondering what the flip was going on.

In terms of watching horror on my own - yep, because my regular film watching cohort aren't into horror, and I quite like a good one. Things like The Babadook, Get Out, that kind of thing for me - I'm not a fan of the Saw style of modern horror (but each to their own and all that, I know a lot of folk who hated The Babadook).

The answer has to be Midsommar, hasn’t it?

+1

No spoilers but it's a very original take on the horror genre - I'm not sure "scares" is the right word, but it will stay with you for sure.

I think it might be on Netflix again now, with Halloween approaching.

When i was a kid my parents would go out on a Friday night leaving me to stop up and watch the Hammer films, i remember watching The Haunted House of Horrors i think it was called, scared the bejeebus out of me.
Not fussed at all now though.