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Explain people who watch/enjoy horror films?

Whats wrong with these fucking geeks?
Aqua Beady-eyed Chapel Knife
  06/26/16
What's wrong with horror films
bistre national security agency toaster
  06/26/16
15 year olds meeting girls at the movie theater for a date
Big center
  06/26/16
I wonder the same thing
jade station tank
  06/26/16
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ivory razzle-dazzle dilemma
  06/27/16
does anyone watch these anymore. seems like a thing people d...
nighttime therapy spot
  06/27/16
they made a big comback in the late 2000s. the ring, human c...
Electric High-end Potus Space
  06/27/16
oh yeah, i remember that. never saw them either.
nighttime therapy spot
  06/27/16
yeah there were a ton now that i think of it saw, texas c...
Electric High-end Potus Space
  06/27/16
'Saw' is the one i remember reading about, and it shocked me...
nighttime therapy spot
  06/27/16
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Aqua Beady-eyed Chapel Knife
  06/27/16
you've described the majority of modern horror films brother
Heady international law enforcement agency immigrant
  06/27/16
This. Saw's brand of horror is even lower than jump scare...
translucent jet-lagged forum psychic
  06/27/16
Stephen King has a pretty good breakdown of the hierarchy of...
Razzmatazz fanboi digit ratio
  06/27/16
we really like it there
Razzmatazz fanboi digit ratio
  06/27/16
cr the psychological effects of watching horror are pretty m...
Bespoke address background story
  06/27/16
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Razzmatazz fanboi digit ratio
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Date: June 26th, 2016 7:56 PM
Author: Aqua Beady-eyed Chapel Knife

Whats wrong with these fucking geeks?

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Date: June 26th, 2016 7:57 PM
Author: bistre national security agency toaster

What's wrong with horror films

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Date: June 26th, 2016 7:57 PM
Author: Big center

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

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Date: June 26th, 2016 8:45 PM
Author: jade station tank

I wonder the same thing

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Date: June 27th, 2016 3:44 AM
Author: ivory razzle-dazzle dilemma



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Date: June 27th, 2016 3:45 AM
Author: nighttime therapy spot

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: Electric High-end Potus Space

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: nighttime therapy spot

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

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Date: June 27th, 2016 3:50 AM
Author: Electric High-end Potus Space

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: nighttime therapy spot

'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: Aqua Beady-eyed Chapel Knife



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Date: June 27th, 2016 4:31 AM
Author: Heady international law enforcement agency immigrant

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: translucent jet-lagged forum psychic

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: Razzmatazz fanboi digit ratio

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: Razzmatazz fanboi digit ratio

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: Bespoke address background story

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

(can confirm)

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Date: June 27th, 2016 8:49 AM
Author: Razzmatazz fanboi digit ratio



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