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Explain people who watch/enjoy horror films?

Whats wrong with these fucking geeks?
poppy comical love of her life
  06/26/16
What's wrong with horror films
Onyx razzmatazz corner
  06/26/16
15 year olds meeting girls at the movie theater for a date
mind-boggling indian lodge voyeur
  06/26/16
I wonder the same thing
honey-headed fluffy hissy fit school cafeteria
  06/26/16
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misunderstood ivory parlour
  06/27/16
does anyone watch these anymore. seems like a thing people d...
Irradiated potus
  06/27/16
they made a big comback in the late 2000s. the ring, human c...
Stimulating house
  06/27/16
oh yeah, i remember that. never saw them either.
Irradiated potus
  06/27/16
yeah there were a ton now that i think of it saw, texas c...
Stimulating house
  06/27/16
'Saw' is the one i remember reading about, and it shocked me...
Irradiated potus
  06/27/16
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poppy comical love of her life
  06/27/16
you've described the majority of modern horror films brother
Demanding light theatre stain
  06/27/16
This. Saw's brand of horror is even lower than jump scare...
Aqua Wonderful Hall
  06/27/16
Stephen King has a pretty good breakdown of the hierarchy of...
fragrant shaky shrine
  06/27/16
we really like it there
fragrant shaky shrine
  06/27/16
cr the psychological effects of watching horror are pretty m...
Grizzly cracking idiot space
  06/27/16
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fragrant shaky shrine
  06/27/16


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Date: June 26th, 2016 7:56 PM
Author: poppy comical love of her life

Whats wrong with these fucking geeks?

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Date: June 26th, 2016 7:57 PM
Author: Onyx razzmatazz corner

What's wrong with horror films

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Date: June 26th, 2016 7:57 PM
Author: mind-boggling indian lodge voyeur

15 year olds meeting girls at the movie theater for a date

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Date: June 26th, 2016 8:45 PM
Author: honey-headed fluffy hissy fit school cafeteria

I wonder the same thing

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Date: June 27th, 2016 3:44 AM
Author: misunderstood ivory parlour



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Date: June 27th, 2016 3:45 AM
Author: Irradiated potus

does anyone watch these anymore. seems like a thing people did in the 70s.

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Date: June 27th, 2016 3:47 AM
Author: Stimulating house

they made a big comback in the late 2000s. the ring, human centipede, etc.

never saw any of them

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Date: June 27th, 2016 3:48 AM
Author: Irradiated potus

oh yeah, i remember that. never saw them either.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3267672&forum_id=2#30799932)



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Date: June 27th, 2016 3:50 AM
Author: Stimulating house

yeah there were a ton now that i think of it

saw, texas chainsaw, final destination

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Date: June 27th, 2016 3:59 AM
Author: Irradiated potus

'Saw' is the one i remember reading about, and it shocked me.

it seemed not so much a scary 'horror' movie but rather some kind of exercise in purely deviant snuff-film titillation.

'what's the most FUCKED UP and sadistic way we can kill someone?? hehehehehe.'

it was an expression of the warped feminine psychology of its primary audience -- like the cinematic preoccupation with 'serial killers' in the 90s, which was also driven by the demented tastes of women.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3267672&forum_id=2#30799949)



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Date: June 27th, 2016 4:11 AM
Author: poppy comical love of her life



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Date: June 27th, 2016 4:31 AM
Author: Demanding light theatre stain

you've described the majority of modern horror films brother

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3267672&forum_id=2#30799960)



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Date: June 27th, 2016 8:33 AM
Author: Aqua Wonderful Hall

This.

Saw's brand of horror is even lower than jump scares, and jump scares are pretty fucking low.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3267672&forum_id=2#30800228)



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Date: June 27th, 2016 8:40 AM
Author: fragrant shaky shrine

Stephen King has a pretty good breakdown of the hierarchy of this stuff in Danse Macabre

The most elegant is what he calls 'terror' which is where you scare the shit out of someone without showing your hand

Then there's what he calls 'horror'which is where you try to terrify and then also confront the audience with something scary (I'd argue jump scares fall into this category)

Finally there's the 'gross-out' which is self-explanatory



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3267672&forum_id=2#30800252)



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Date: June 27th, 2016 8:14 AM
Author: fragrant shaky shrine

we really like it there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3267672&forum_id=2#30800188)



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Date: June 27th, 2016 8:42 AM
Author: Grizzly cracking idiot space

cr the psychological effects of watching horror are pretty much identical to the psychological effects of posting on XO with any regularity

(can confirm)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3267672&forum_id=2#30800265)



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Date: June 27th, 2016 8:49 AM
Author: fragrant shaky shrine



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