Nothing on the big or small screen has ever scared me as such. A few so called "jump-scares" maybe when there's a setup for a loud bang or sudden cut/edit but nothing actually invoking fear. Watched the original The Evil Dead, Videodrome, Exorcist on VHS long before I was 18 and one or two that got taken off the shelves later as "video nasties" early-mid 80's but never got the "horror". Gratuitous images of woundings and injuries are always an uncomfortable watch but not fearsome. I avoided "horror" films as a result for decades until recently having heard nothing but good things about 'Prevenge' I made a point of catching it on TV. Still don't get it. It wasn't horrific, just gratuitous. Some billed it as being comic as well as horrific, nope just contrived. A few shits got their comeuppance but the rest was tawdry. Whatever that thing is we need to be enervated by "horror" on screen, I seem not to have.
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A few so called "jump-scares" maybe when there's a setup for a loud bang or sudden cut/edit but nothing actually invoking fear.
Watched the original The Evil Dead, Videodrome, Exorcist on VHS long before I was 18 and one or two that got taken off the shelves later as "video nasties" early-mid 80's but never got the "horror". Gratuitous images of woundings and injuries are always an uncomfortable watch but not fearsome.
I avoided "horror" films as a result for decades until recently having heard nothing but good things about 'Prevenge' I made a point of catching it on TV.
Still don't get it. It wasn't horrific, just gratuitous. Some billed it as being comic as well as horrific, nope just contrived. A few shits got their comeuppance but the rest was tawdry.
Whatever that thing is we need to be enervated by "horror" on screen, I seem not to have.