Topic: Will I Make It?

[RossRoy]

I'm such a big wuss that I have started to categorise some of my unwatched horror list I posted here earlier for recommendations with a 'not too scary' tag 

I think that you can watch those one without crying like a little girl

Go on, rub it in     Am I really the only one who watches some films from behind a cushion?

I don't watch horror with a cushion.. but I can tell you my eyes are never too far from closed! Which is basically the same thing (I do lack the reassuring hug though hehe)

My problem is I'm probably as much of a wuss as you are, but I like horror and I want to like horror... I just never been desensitized to it, quite the opposite actually.

[richierich]

My problem is I'm probably as much of a wuss as you are, but I like horror and I want to like horror... I just never been desensitized to it, quite the opposite actually.

That's a really interesting point, do people become desensitised to horror, or gore, or porn, where they continually have to explore more extremes to achieve the same appeal?? 

[addicted2dvd]

For me... I wouldn't say desensitized... because horror never really scared me... not even as a kid. Well maybe my first couple times of watching it. But that is at the most... and never since. I may get a little bit of an adrenaline rush... but that is about it. I just plain out enjoy the genre. No differently then enjoying comedies or mysteries. But then again... maybe I am the strange and weird one. 

[RossRoy]

That's a really interesting point, do people become desensitised to horror, or gore, or porn, where they continually have to explore more extremes to achieve the same appeal?? 

Intentional or not, I'm sure people do get desensitized about these things over time. How else can you explain things like "2 girls 1 cup" (do yourself a favor and DO NOT look for it. If you do end up looking for it, you have my pity. Do seek out the reactions videos though, these are funny!) and all the other extreme stuff? And it's like that in most spheres of life. People are always looking for bigger, better, faster, more exciting, etc etc etc

Oh and this came out on ICanHazCheezBurger:

[Jimmy]

That's a really interesting point, do people become desensitised to horror, or gore, or porn, where they continually have to explore more extremes to achieve the same appeal?? 

Just like they say in the trailer for The Last House on the Left
To avoid fainting keep repeating It's only a movie

Some movie scare me, but this is the one that can happen for real like the serial killer movie. Why would have been affraid of something that doesn't exist?

So not desensitised to horror and certainly not to adult cinema (of course I don't watch internet thing like 2 girls 1 cup, Japanese stuff (they are too weird for me) or clown porn that look too scary for me)

[Najemikon]

I don't think you get desensitized to anything really. We all have comfort zones, our default setting. We find something scary, likely we always will on some level. I'm like Pete, in that I love horror and the ideas behind it, but I've never been scared, so to speak. Startled, yes, but never disturbed. So I'm fascinated by people who genuinely get the willies! I remember a girl at work went to see Scream with her friend and when she dropped her off at home, her wouldn't dare get out the car and demanded she escort her to the door!

Only problem was, my friend wouldn't do it because she was to scared to walk back to the car on her own!

Going by Jon's review of The Val Lewton Collection right here on this site I better get the entire set!

And Jon... is this the same set you have? It seems to be... but Amazon mentions one called Shadow in the Dark but you don't mention that one. Is that an amazon mistake? or something you haven't watched yet?

Thanks for reading, Pete, and I'm glad you're giving them all a chance! I do have the set with Shadows in the Dark, but no, I haven't watched it yet.

All the films are pretty good and several are superb, but none are completely straightforward horrors (I Walked With A Zombie, is probably the closest to actual zombies, but nothing like what modern audiences think of them as). Lewton was a typical b-movie producer, flying by the seat of his pants with no budgets to speak of, but he had more ambition than most. So you get these quite powerful, sometimes daring films, but with classic drive-in style titles! His influence was massive which is why Scorcese does the documentary. I think his work was a very important bridge between classic Universal horror and more subtle thrillers.

[addicted2dvd]

I don't think you get desensitized to anything really. We all have comfort zones, our default setting. We find something scary, likely we always will on some level. I'm like Pete, in that I love horror and the ideas behind it, but I've never been scared, so to speak. Startled, yes, but never disturbed. So I'm fascinated by people who genuinely get the willies! I remember a girl at work went to see Scream with her friend and when she dropped her off at home, her wouldn't dare get out the car and demanded she escort her to the door!

Only problem was, my friend wouldn't do it because she was to scared to walk back to the car on her own!

OMG! Over Scream!?!?!? How is that even possible. I don't think I ever heard anyone call Scream scary!  Oh well.. there is a first for everything I guess!

Going by Jon's review of The Val Lewton Collection right here on this site I better get the entire set!

And Jon... is this the same set you have? It seems to be... but Amazon mentions one called Shadow in the Dark but you don't mention that one. Is that an amazon mistake? or something you haven't watched yet?

Thanks for reading, Pete, and I'm glad you're giving them all a chance! I do have the set with Shadows in the Dark, but no, I haven't watched it yet.

All the films are pretty good and several are superb, but none are completely straightforward horrors (I Walked With A Zombie, is probably the closest to actual zombies, but nothing like what modern audiences think of them as). Lewton was a typical b-movie producer, flying by the seat of his pants with no budgets to speak of, but he had more ambition than most. So you get these quite powerful, sometimes daring films, but with classic drive-in style titles! His influence was massive which is why Scorcese does the documentary. I think his work was a very important bridge between classic Universal horror and more subtle thrillers.

The more I read about the set the more I have been looking forward to it! I will say I never cared much for the old style (voodoo) zombies... always liked the new flesh eating ones that Romero made so famous. But that could be because I only remember seeing 1 movie with the old style zombies... that being White Zombie... which I didn't care much for the first time around. Though I do plan to give another chance next month!

[Najemikon]

It is a voodoo story, but I found it fascinating. I think modern writers are very naive about it and they write it as good voodoo or bad voodoo. By the end of this movie, Lewton made me feel there was right and wrong voodoo; is an act evil if it's done for the greater good, perhaps? But that's why Lewton is always worth a look, because he was never lazy.

I don't think you get desensitized to anything really. We all have comfort zones, our default setting. We find something scary, likely we always will on some level. I'm like Pete, in that I love horror and the ideas behind it, but I've never been scared, so to speak. Startled, yes, but never disturbed. So I'm fascinated by people who genuinely get the willies! I remember a girl at work went to see Scream with her friend and when she dropped her off at home, her wouldn't dare get out the car and demanded she escort her to the door!

Only problem was, my friend wouldn't do it because she was to scared to walk back to the car on her own!

OMG! Over Scream!?!?!? How is that even possible. I don't think I ever heard anyone call Scream scary!  Oh well.. there is a first for everything I guess!

I know! She was a very confident person, but jumpy as hell. Have you ever seen those joke websites? "Stare here and see if you find the ghost" sort of thing, but after a while a gruesome face pops out with a loud scream instead.

I showed her one of those and she was intelligent enough to know it was a trick, so she started to giggle, then the thing popped out and she almost hit the roof! She was a wreck for the rest of the afternoon! Bless her.

[Dragonfire]

I was a bit jumpy when I watched Blair Witch Project..course for some reason I decided to watch it in the middle of the night..all alone.  One of the dogs wanted out at one point and then was barking up a storm at something - probably just a rabbit or deer.  I sort of live in the country..there are neighbors, but none real close.  Rabbits and deer are around here often.  Anyway, that night, it freaked me out.  The first time I saw Silence of the Lambs, I was holding a pillow..ready to hide behind it if necessary.   

Oh.  I did get a bit freaked out after seeing Wolf.  My friend and I had seen the movie earlier in the day and then done some other stuff.  I was the one driving and she lived in an area in the country too, on this really windy, curvy dark road with all sorts of trees alongside it at times.  It was fairly late when I was going home and a bit foggy in some spots on that road.  Then I saw some kind of animal ..probably a dog..and because of the headlights, it looked like the eyes were glowing.  So that freaked me out.  I was really glad to get home after that. 

[addicted2dvd]

It is a voodoo story, but I found it fascinating. I think modern writers are very naive about it and they write it as good voodoo or bad voodoo. By the end of this movie, Lewton made me feel there was right and wrong voodoo; is an act evil if it's done for the greater good, perhaps? But that's why Lewton is always worth a look, because he was never lazy.

I don't think you get desensitized to anything really. We all have comfort zones, our default setting. We find something scary, likely we always will on some level. I'm like Pete, in that I love horror and the ideas behind it, but I've never been scared, so to speak. Startled, yes, but never disturbed. So I'm fascinated by people who genuinely get the willies! I remember a girl at work went to see Scream with her friend and when she dropped her off at home, her wouldn't dare get out the car and demanded she escort her to the door!

Only problem was, my friend wouldn't do it because she was to scared to walk back to the car on her own!

OMG! Over Scream!?!?!? How is that even possible. I don't think I ever heard anyone call Scream scary!  Oh well.. there is a first for everything I guess!

I know! She was a very confident person, but jumpy as hell. Have you ever seen those joke websites? "Stare here and see if you find the ghost" sort of thing, but after a while a gruesome face pops out with a loud scream instead.

I showed her one of those and she was intelligent enough to know it was a trick, so she started to giggle, then the thing popped out and she almost hit the roof! She was a wreck for the rest of the afternoon! Bless her.

 

[addicted2dvd]

I was a bit jumpy when I watched Blair Witch Project..course for some reason I decided to watch it in the middle of the night..all alone.  One of the dogs wanted out at one point and then was barking up a storm at something - probably just a rabbit or deer.  I sort of live in the country..there are neighbors, but none real close.  Rabbits and deer are around here often.  Anyway, that night, it freaked me out.  The first time I saw Silence of the Lambs, I was holding a pillow..ready to hide behind it if necessary.   

Oh.  I did get a bit freaked out after seeing Wolf.  My friend and I had seen the movie earlier in the day and then done some other stuff.  I was the one driving and she lived in an area in the country too, on this really windy, curvy dark road with all sorts of trees alongside it at times.  It was fairly late when I was going home and a bit foggy in some spots on that road.  Then I saw some kind of animal ..probably a dog..and because of the headlights, it looked like the eyes were glowing.  So that freaked me out.  I was really glad to get home after that. 

I went to see Blair Witch at the theater with my niece and my sis-in-law... and my niece was sitting next to me curled up in the fetal position in the chair and every once in a while burying her head in my shoulder!  But yet this is the same niece that when I showed her The Exorcist laughed through-out the entire movie!  I still haven't figured that one out! 

As for Wolf... to me not scary in the least... I even have a bit of a hard time calling it a horror! 

[Jimmy]

Pete the 50 movies set doesn't look too bad. I've already profiled 2 of the disc and the quality is quite surprising (evidently I talk about the image and the sound, I've watched nothing except the credits), the only crappy transfert is Bimbo BC (look like a vhs tape recorded and erased a thousand times) who is not an horror film BTW. Most of the film were originally released by Brain Damaged on dvd (usually their product are entertainning).

Maybe I will order another one somewhere in october since they are so cheaply prize.

[addicted2dvd]

Sounds cool. I know you don't contribute to Invelos any longer... but if you don't mind sharing I would like to get a copy of those profiles when you are done! 

[Dragonfire]

I went to see Blair Witch at the theater with my niece and my sis-in-law... and my niece was sitting next to me curled up in the fetal position in the chair and every once in a while burying her head in my shoulder!  But yet this is the same niece that when I showed her The Exorcist laughed through-out the entire movie!  I still haven't figured that one out! 

As for Wolf... to me not scary in the least... I even have a bit of a hard time calling it a horror! 

For Wolf, the movie itself didn't freak me out..it was just that night driving home so late alone and then seeing some kind of animal that looked like a dog or wolf by the road that did it.

[addicted2dvd]

Yeah... I understand... but if was me I probably would have thought it was cool