Do you like watching scary movies?

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45 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Yes I LOVE scary movies
	3 (7%)
	Some I like, some I don't
	18 (40%)
	I'm trying to think of one I actually like.
	1 (2%)
	No, not my thing
	21 (47%)
	OTHER
	2 (4%)
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[no_hypocrisy]

1. If I want to watch a "scary movie," I'll watch PBS's "Frontline".

Michael Flynn scares the sh*t out of me.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. I like the old Universal monster movies. Hard pass on today's Halloween & Saw -type stuff.

[Ocelot II]

3. I don't like the violent or gory ones. I do like them if the scary stuff is psychological

and the effect isn't to make you scream but to creep you out - for example, The Silence of the Lambs. Carrie, Get Out, Let the Right One In, The Shining, The Ring, Midsommar (a bit gory in spots), Don't Look Now, and of course Psycho.

[nolabear]

14. That's me. Good, we'll made psychological horror is great.

I’m not squeamish but it doesn’t hold my attention.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. I used to love them, but now the repug party is so scary that it's difficult to watch

fiction any longer.

[EYESORE 9001]

5. I've become more selective in recent years

I guess I’ve become jaded over time, so it takes a really interesting storyline to hold my attention.

[dameatball]

6. Monsters yes; Slashers no.

[Lunabell]

7. No slasher flicks.

Vampires and mythical monsters are good.

[Genki Hikari]

8. I voted no

If by horror, one means the gory, violent horror of Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, and so on. Those give me nightmares.

[IcyPeas]

9. no. with very few exceptions.

Not a movie but I did watch a lot of American Horror Story.

scary movies... scare me too much.

[nolabear]

15. Which years did you like? I've seen a few but not all.

Loved the N.O. one (I would). Madam LaLurie was real and I’ve been by that house many times.

And I loved the carnival one because I was conditioned early to love a carnival.

[IcyPeas]

25. I was late to the series. I started with Freak Show

that was the 4th season. I really like the way they use the same actors in each season. I found that interesting -- and what a great gig for an actor!

then I went back and watched the first 3 seasons. ✔️ watched // ❌ didn't watch // ✔️❌ kinda watched

1. Murder House ✔️
2. Asylum✔️
3. Coven✔️
4. Freak Show✔️
5. Hotel✔️
6. Roanoke ✔️❌
7. Cult❌
8. Apocalypse✔️❌
9. 1984❌
10. Double Feature❌
11. NYC❌

[nolabear]

29. Cool. Thanks! I liked Freak Show too.

We were in New Orleans for Halloween the year that one showed. Twistie the Clown was EVERYWHERE. It was terrifying!

[IcyPeas]

30. Yeah, it was terrifying! Maybe I'll go back and watch the rest.

There's supposedly a new one in the works too.

Don't know if I'll watch "Cult" ... it's about trump. From Wikipedia:

American Horror Story: Cult, ... is the seventh season of the FX horror anthology television series American Horror Story, ... It premiered on September 5, 2017, .... This season takes place in the fictional suburb of Brookfield Heights, Michigan, during the year 2017, and centers on a cult terrorizing the residents in the aftermath of Donald Trump winning the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

[nolabear]

33. Yeah I'll pass there too. It's tough enough as it is.

[mysteryowl]

10. Living life is scary enough for me.

[iemanja]

11. Not that kind of scary

I like thrillers, but not pure horror movies.

[Coventina]

12. I need a precise definition of what you mean by "scary"

If you mean "horror" like "It" which you picture, no, I don't like scary movies.

If you mean like a slasher movie, like Halloween and such, no, I don't like scary movies.

I do like suspense thrillers, like "Rear Window" or things like that.
To me, those are scary.

[Niagara]

13. I mostly like horror movies.

I own the entire Halloween franchise movies. I like all the Psycho franchise movies.


I recently watched and enjoyed the Magic movie (1978) and Curse of the Blood Ghouls (1962). Movies based on Stephen King's novels are always a must watch for me.



There are some that are beyond bizarre and I absolutely refuse to dedicate any of my time to watch them.

[nolabear]

17. Do you like the mainstream Japanese ones?

Like The Ring and The Grudge? Something about that jerky, insect like motion creeps me out big time.

[Niagara]

18. I'm not a fan of the Japanese horror movies.

They're actually too creepy for me.

[Luciferous]

16. Not the gory ones. I like ones with ghosts.

[Niagara]

19. Have you watched What Lies Beneath?

You might like that one.

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20. Thats a good one.

So is Rosemary's Baby.

[Luciferous]

22. Yeah, that one was pretty good. And the house was gorgeous as well 🙂

[wnylib]

21. I'm the one who voted "other" because

I have qualifiers like other posters have mentioned.

I like good psychological "scary" movies" like The Shining (prefer King's movie version), and other ghost stories that have an actual plot and are not made just for the scare factor. Do not like any of the Halloween series or similar films which are just a bunch of cheap, sudden scare scenes strung together with barely a plot.

[Mad_Dem_X]

23. I don't like gore; I prefer suspenseful movies.

Excessive gore and jump scares are not my thing.

[a kennedy]

24. As said above, love scary movies, just not slasher bloody kind.

[GumboYaYa]

26. I like classic horror films. The last two nights we watched The Haunting and The Birds.

We watch a classic horror film (no gory slasher movies included) every night up until Halloween this time of year. We are trying to decide what to watch the next three nights. Any suggestions are appreciated.

[IcyPeas]

32. Have you seen Bette Davis movie The Nanny?

Scared the ___ out of me first time I saw it.

And the entire movie is on youtube

[Chakaconcarne]

27. The Wytch is more like my style of scary...

[Wounded Bear]

28. Don't watch many movies at all...

[FakeNoose]

31. I can't watch vampire movies - they gross me out

But I love just about any other kind of well-crafted, suspenseful horror movies.
Even some of the oddball ones - if they are well-made.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

34. Rarely, if they're well-written.

As others wrote in this thread, suspenseful stories are more interesting to me.

I was never actually frightened by traditional horror stories, with monsters and supernatural entities, as a kid. The most scary movies for me were based on REAL human behavior -- e.g., Helter Skelter, Guyana Tragedy, etc.

Even Spielberg's "Duel" was more frightening to me as a little kid (in the early 70's) than most so-called horror films.

My older brothers were amazed that I was always skeptical and relaxed whenever they tried to scare me with nonsense about monsters being under my bed. I was later told that an older sister was much more gullible in that regard, and she just happens to be the gung-ho evangelical Christian in our family today. So she's still gullible.

Our normally mild-mannered father was terrifying enough for me, whenever he'd lose his temper to the extreme -- such as when he closely pursued a group of motorcyclists in his large V8 luxury car after one of them had kicked it outside of a restaurant. We all believed he was going to run them over, after coming within inches of one of them, but he indeed slowed down to let them escape.