(October 20, 2021 at 5:56 pm)emjay Wrote:(October 18, 2021 at 9:35 pm)Helios Wrote: Do you like your horror gory? Do you like it subtle? Do you like lots of jump scares or just a creeping sense of dread?
For my part, I like my horror subtle and full of mystery where often you don't know what you suppose to be scared of but you get a creeping sense that something is wrong and the creeping dread that goes along with it.
Not a fan of gore at all, but I'll endure it if the film has interesting ideas/imagery to make up for it... like the Hellraiser films are pretty gory but the grotesque creature ideas and lore of it more than make up for it for me. Silent Hill is another one I love for the grotesque creature design and imaginative lore (I know it's based on a video game, but I still think it's a great film, even though I've never played the game). I know it's a contentious one, but I loved Blair Witch and would class it as one of my favourites, though I haven't seen it in a long time. There I guess it's more about the unseen than the seen for me. In general though, I don't get that hyped for horror these days, cos it all seems pretty run of the mill, and it's very hard to jumpscare me any more, but occasionally something comes along that takes me by surprise.
Don't actually mind gore because then it can seem cartoonish.
Don't like to be frightened so am not a fan poof the jump scare. EG Saw Pyscho when it first came out. Scared the bejabbers out of me because of the jump scare in the shower and because Hitchcock deliberately make it seem that Janet Leigh was a main character. That made the shower attack doubly unexpected.
Currently trying to watch the series 'Chapelwaite' but its pretty boring. Usually like gothic horror. It's formulaic and predictable. Don't usually find it scary.
Off topic: Has anyone watched "See"? I've started watching the second series but I'm a bit bored with it. Also find the setting hard to accept: That the blinded remnants of the human race could survive for 500 years. Or that the massive hydro electric machines could work continuously for centuries and that the blinded people could hook up some personal power. Puts me in mind of that other rather silly series "Wayward Pines". I learned to suspense disbelief when I was five listening to Superman on the radio. Had no problems with Harry Potter's world at 50 odd either, but there is a limit.
