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Explain people who watch/enjoy horror films?
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Date: June 26th, 2016 7:56 PM Author: sable razzle-dazzle library Whats wrong with these fucking geeks? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3267672&forum_id=2#30797647) |
Date: June 26th, 2016 7:57 PM Author: Gay roommate What's wrong with horror films (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3267672&forum_id=2#30797653) |
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Date: June 26th, 2016 7:57 PM Author: canary parlour ceo 15 year olds meeting girls at the movie theater for a date (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3267672&forum_id=2#30797654) |
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Date: June 26th, 2016 8:45 PM Author: chrome kitty cat house I wonder the same thing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3267672&forum_id=2#30797913) |
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Date: June 27th, 2016 3:44 AM Author: Talented ivory clown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3267672&forum_id=2#30799923) |
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Date: June 27th, 2016 3:45 AM Author: indecent vibrant sanctuary deer antler does anyone watch these anymore. seems like a thing people did in the 70s. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3267672&forum_id=2#30799925) |
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Date: June 27th, 2016 3:47 AM Author: supple school stain 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: indecent vibrant sanctuary deer antler 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: supple school stain 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: indecent vibrant sanctuary deer antler '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. |
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Date: June 27th, 2016 4:11 AM Author: sable razzle-dazzle library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3267672&forum_id=2#30799956) |
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Date: June 27th, 2016 4:31 AM Author: Topaz mildly autistic locus 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: Painfully Honest Range This.
Saw's brand of horror is even lower than jump scares, and jump scares are pretty fucking low. |
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Date: June 27th, 2016 8:40 AM Author: mind-boggling marketing idea 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
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Date: June 27th, 2016 8:14 AM Author: mind-boggling marketing idea 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: cheese-eating karate 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: mind-boggling marketing idea (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3267672&forum_id=2#30800283) |