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Scary movies you don't find scary


While it's a good movie I don't find "The Shining" remotely scary.

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I don't like horrors because they don't scare me. I have this... "detachment" that prevents me from getting too immersed on movies (or videogames, or novels, or anything really). I just saw movies as... just movies. Horror movies' jumpscares startle me just fine, and those creepy clowns, nurses, killers, etc. make me blech. They just don't scare me.

That doesn't decrease my enjoyment of movies. I just can't understand the feeling of some people that get carried away so they can actually hate the actors playing some despicable villains like King Joffrey or whatnot. Or mourning the death of a favorite character on a tv show. I mean, come on, the actor is okay, the one who dies was just the fictional character. I can never get those kinds of feelings.

That said, clips from snuff movies or from real wars, decapitations in traffic accidents, beheadings by terorrist groups, etc. scare me to death. It can be days before I can remotely not to think about. And many nights with no sleep.

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Most scary movies, I just don't scare from fiction.

Only movie that ever scared me was Communion, and I was like 12 years old. Knowing that it was supposedly a true story is what made it hit home.

I think a truly scary movie would make you question your own sanity while watching it, would make you feel guilty for indulging. I actually got a sensation like that kind of guilt from Pain & Gain... If I can extract that feeling for a horror movie, then yes.

Also, the sensation I felt when watching the end of The Others... Combine these two feelings with a really nice psychological horror movie, and I think that will be a winner.

I'll work on it.

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"The Others" and "The Innocents" both unnerve me because they're rooted in subtle horror -- the kind past masters like Poe and Henry James exemplified. "The Shining" definitely has that subtle horror going on -- but Nicholson, who is always Nicholson no matter what he plays, undermines the eerie understatement with his usual manic performance that is even more fitting for a Looney Tunes short than ever before.

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The Innocents from 1961, I assume. Looks interesting, has a good pedigree. I will keep it in mind, thanks!

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Michael Bay's Pain & Gain? I barely remember it, but was it a comedy and not scary at all?

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It was a comedy about atrocious things that SHOULD be horror... The enjoyment of that is where the guilt came in.

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Evita.

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All of them. I haven't been scared since I was about 11 years old. I still love horror movies.

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^^^

Same, but they are still fun.

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