I'm really bad with horror films. You'd think that given the fact that I have balls of steel, and am the person most likely to not let myself get overwhelmed by fear, I'd be a hardcore horror film lover. No f-ing way. D= Because in addition to being confident and brave, I have an amazing imagination, and the most interesting dreams of anyone I've ever met (I have plot lines, character development, world-building cultural elements...I apparently read books not yet written in my dreams XD), and HOLY FUCK. I don't even BELIEVE in ghosts, not the way horror films show them anyway, and they SCARE THE CRAP OUT OF ME.
I did laugh through most of The Grudge (American version) though. The sound the ghost made just was too ridiculous. I was like, "Okay, that would scare me for the first few seconds...and then just annoy the shit out of me." And I was most bothered by the part where the ghost starts crawling up Buffy--er, Sarah Michelle Gellar, because I would have kicked the damn thing in the head several times before it even got that far. I have very violent impulses toward ghosts, for some insane reason. The Japanese version actually bored me. D=
Ring 0 scared the beejesus out of me though. I didn't sleep right for a week--I kept wondering about what it would have been like to create an "other self" from all my rage and anger and pain as a child, one that would develope into something else, and eventually seek the death of everyone I knew. *shudder*
The horror films that scare me the most though are the ones with the most realistic actors. I love Japanese horror films (though you have to sift through a lot of trash to find the gold, sort of like American action flicks), because you very often have brilliant, brave, intrepid heroes...who lose in the end. That is so fucking scary, it makes me afraid to sleep with the lights off. I love the way they let the nasties win--we Americans are so caught up in being Heroes that we always try to Save Everybody, and bring them to the light. I LOVED how The Ring ended--where The Hero Bringing Goodness And Freeing Innocents fucked up. I hate the way we wrap up our horror films, because even when they sometimes do the "dun dun DUN" ending, the people are still happy, and at least the main romance couple survived. Shoot, I saw one where the guy DOESN'T save the girl--he fails, and she dies in his arms, and the ghost wins. I had nightmares for weeks.
The only genre of horror that has never been able to grip me is the Zombie movies. Or vampire movies, now that I think about it. Or monster. Gore doesn't scare me. =/ It just makes me go, "ewwww." Like the most recent incarnation of "13 Ghosts." SUPER GORE, and such a weak ghost film. It was way more gorey than ghosty. I wasn't even mildly scared, and I'm not that hard to scare with ghost films.
Long story short: horror films are scary for me. But, you know the worst thing? Sometimes I get into this Mood, about once a year, where all I want to watch for like an entire day is horror films. Then, I scare the crap out of myself. @_@
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I did laugh through most of The Grudge (American version) though. The sound the ghost made just was too ridiculous. I was like, "Okay, that would scare me for the first few seconds...and then just annoy the shit out of me." And I was most bothered by the part where the ghost starts crawling up Buffy--er, Sarah Michelle Gellar, because I would have kicked the damn thing in the head several times before it even got that far. I have very violent impulses toward ghosts, for some insane reason. The Japanese version actually bored me. D=
Ring 0 scared the beejesus out of me though. I didn't sleep right for a week--I kept wondering about what it would have been like to create an "other self" from all my rage and anger and pain as a child, one that would develope into something else, and eventually seek the death of everyone I knew. *shudder*
The horror films that scare me the most though are the ones with the most realistic actors. I love Japanese horror films (though you have to sift through a lot of trash to find the gold, sort of like American action flicks), because you very often have brilliant, brave, intrepid heroes...who lose in the end. That is so fucking scary, it makes me afraid to sleep with the lights off. I love the way they let the nasties win--we Americans are so caught up in being Heroes that we always try to Save Everybody, and bring them to the light. I LOVED how The Ring ended--where The Hero Bringing Goodness And Freeing Innocents fucked up. I hate the way we wrap up our horror films, because even when they sometimes do the "dun dun DUN" ending, the people are still happy, and at least the main romance couple survived. Shoot, I saw one where the guy DOESN'T save the girl--he fails, and she dies in his arms, and the ghost wins. I had nightmares for weeks.
The only genre of horror that has never been able to grip me is the Zombie movies. Or vampire movies, now that I think about it. Or monster. Gore doesn't scare me. =/ It just makes me go, "ewwww." Like the most recent incarnation of "13 Ghosts." SUPER GORE, and such a weak ghost film. It was way more gorey than ghosty. I wasn't even mildly scared, and I'm not that hard to scare with ghost films.
Long story short: horror films are scary for me. But, you know the worst thing? Sometimes I get into this Mood, about once a year, where all I want to watch for like an entire day is horror films. Then, I scare the crap out of myself. @_@