Any other fans of horror fiction and/or horror movies here? I've been a fan of horror films since seeing the original Frankenstein on tv 60+ years ago. I grew up on the Universal Monster movies, and the Vincent Price/Roger Corman E.A. Poe films during the 60's and 70's.
My love of anything horror or Halloween themed has continued throughout my life. 
I also have a small library of horror fiction that I started collecting while I was still in high school(a really long time ago).  I've read most of Poe's work, and everything from H. P. Lovecraft, Charles L. Grant, Brian Lumley, and recently Darcy Coates. I've never been a big fan of Stephen King, he's too long winded, and most of his endings are 'cliche IMO. 

I'm looking forward to the movie Long Legs that starts next week, it looks very interesting. Nicholas Cage as a deranged serial killer, what took so long?

Didn't see Long Legs, but I did watch Willy's Wonderland:

Horror books just never did anything for me, but I am a huge fan of the genre when it comes to film.

I want to see the ballerina vampire. Can't recall the title.

I was hooked when I watched The Thing 1982

That was the first time I saw such special effects that set me on a course of life casts, latex and mold building


Sorry, can’t stand Nic Cage

I like comedy horror.

Reanimator



Also, Evil Dead series.

Horror isn't the genre for me. Psychological thrillers are sometimes interesting.

When I was a teenager the book "The Exorcist" came out. I was at my regular babysitting gig that often lasted late in the night, if not the wee hours of the morning. The house was, at that time, at the end of that part of town so there were no houses across the street, little traffic, and little light...nighttime was very, very dark. After the kids were asleep I was sitting in the breezeway reading the book. It was getting scarier and I was reading faster and faster when suddenly Pepper started barking outside and a man yelled, "Shut up you son of a bitch!".

That was it for me for reading horror. I nearly needed to be scraped of the ceiling after that, my heart may still be pounding a bit from it, I remember it so clearly.

It doesn't matter that I later learned it was a neighborhood guy a couple years older than me who was trying to walk of some of the night's partying before going home to his parents' house.

Most horror movies are formulaic, thus you have haunted house movies, ghosts, monster chasing, zombies, and a few others.

And since I am past the age of being scared by horror movies, I watch them rather as expressions of ideas. For example, I recently enjoyed a horror movie "Immaculate" although it was rather formulaic, it explored interesting ideas of unwanted pregnancy and forced birth.

Consequently, movies that scared me the most were not horror movies. Like, I watched the movie "Roswell" (1994) when I was a kid and it scared the shit out of me because I fell for bad logic and the trope that it was "real".

And it seems that for the most people the "real" factor is the thing that scares them the most, and thus a lot of horror movies claim to be based on real events - although they are not.

That's why these days if I want to scare myself, I watch documentaries and go "That's what they're putting in food!!" or "These people are so close to getting power!!"

(July 8, 2024 at 5:58 am)arewethereyet Wrote: Horror isn't the genre for me.  Psychological thrillers are sometimes interesting.

When I was a teenager the book "The Exorcist" came out.  I was at my regular babysitting gig that often lasted late in the night, if not the wee hours of the morning.  The house was, at that time, at the end of that part of town so there were no houses across the street, little traffic, and little light...nighttime was very, very dark.  After the kids were asleep I was sitting in the breezeway reading the book.  It was getting scarier and I was reading faster and faster when suddenly Pepper started barking outside and a man yelled, "Shut up you son of a bitch!".

That was it for me for reading horror.  I nearly needed to be scraped of the ceiling after that, my heart may still be pounding a bit from it, I remember it so clearly.

It doesn't matter that I later learned it was a neighborhood guy a couple years older than me who was trying to walk of some of the night's partying before going home to his parents' house.

Speaking from experience The Exorcist is not a good choice for a teenage dates.

I'm not a horror fan. I don't like gore. It makes me ill.

(July 7, 2024 at 7:33 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: Horror books just never did anything for me, but I am a huge fan of the genre when it comes to film.

I want to see the ballerina vampire. Can't recall the title.

Abagail.