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!!"
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!!"
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
