What Kind Of Horror Do You Like ?

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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.

Never actually seen Psycho, I'm ashamed to admit, it was before my time, and I'm not really a fan of retro stuff, like Hitchcock, though my sister, who's younger than me, is, and tries to get me into it. I think I've seen The Birds, if that was him, but that's about all... I thought that was pretty good.

The closest I get to retro is a couple I remember watching or at least glimpsing when I was very young, and both of which have haunted me in my adulthood trying to remember/figure out what they were. Thankfully I finally managed to find out what one of them was, with a somewhat bitter ironic twist... I knew it was Gothic themed, so I spent forever looking at stuff in that category only to eventually find out that the film itself was called Gothic. So I went out and got that and the feeling of nostalgia was wonderful. So if you like Gothic stuff you might like to give that a go, though I'd be hard pressed to say what the plot is, even now I've got it .. kind of a bunch of poets hanging around in this Gothic mansion getting high and having visions. Very weird.

The other film I never figured out and is much much older. All I have is very vague recollections of it being black and white and with these vats of white goo... maybe wax or something like that... with people coming out of them, covered in the stuff. I'd give anything to know what that film was, just to put my mind at ease, but I doubt I'll ever find out. I've looked at various films about wax works and suchlike, but so far to no avail.

ETA: Also fair warning; that Gothic film is classed as erotic horror... but it's very soft core, not porn by any stretch of the imagination. But just giving fair warning.