Help, I cant be scared!

[hammerfan]

Originally Posted by Unshakable

When I was younger everything would scare me, and I mean everything. I was scared by the Batman and Robin movie. I went looking for those thrills for years and now I really miss them. I don't care if it is impossible I'm going to keep searching until I die.

I was the same way. Hell, even the "Wizard of Oz" scared the hell out of me (flying monkeys?!).

[Unshakable]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

Not your fault, Nathan.

You are going through your 20th year of existence in a period where most of the contemporary horror films pretty much suck, and all the good ones of previous eras have become dated, with cultural and societal atmospheric changes making them look dull and insignificant.

The Exorcist was a big thing for the 70s, even the 80s, like Jaws made people scared of water throughout the same period.

Today, if someone of the present generation (like my nearly 20-year-old nieces) walk up to me and say they don't find The Evil Dead even remotely scary, I don't blame them. They have simply grown up in the wrong era - the era of busy lives, building careers, hard work and studies, competitiveness, etc., ergo no time to sit through a film, which makes them fast-forward through dialogue-based films to the scary parts which eventually lose their effectiveness without the atmosphere built up behind them.

Not everybody can appreciate a good atmospheric horror story today. Books have become a thing of the past. Imaginations have toned down considerably with the brutal realities of life keeping people going, cutting off their day dreams and lazy moments. That "bump" in the dark is no longer scary.

Psycho for today's teenager? Not his cup of tea, by any means.

The only thing which can scare today's teens is the brutality and shocking slaps of real life, nothing else.

You make a good point, I am sure that if I was a teenager back when those movies were made then I wouldn't be in this situation right now.

I can't believe anyone would fast forward through any parts of a movie, especially a horror movie. Without establishing a basic plot understanding and connection with the characters it becomes very difficult to be interested in or scared by a movie. I make sure to sit down and watch every second of a movie, with an exception to Psycho but that was because physical pain prevented me from finishing it the first time through.

[wizard of gore]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

Not your fault, Nathan.

You are going through your 20th year of existence in a period where most of the contemporary horror films pretty much suck, and all the good ones of previous eras have become dated, with cultural and societal atmospheric changes making them look dull and insignificant.

The Exorcist was a big thing for the 70s, even the 80s, like Jaws made people scared of water throughout the same period.

Today, if someone of the present generation (like my nearly 20-year-old nieces) walk up to me and say they don't find The Evil Dead even remotely scary, I don't blame them. They have simply grown up in the wrong era - the era of busy lives, building careers, hard work and studies, competitiveness, etc., ergo no time to sit through a film, which makes them fast-forward through dialogue-based films to the scary parts which eventually lose their effectiveness without the atmosphere built up behind them.

Not everybody can appreciate a good atmospheric horror story today. Books have become a thing of the past. Imaginations have toned down considerably with the brutal realities of life keeping people going, cutting off their day dreams and lazy moments. That "bump" in the dark is no longer scary.

Psycho for today's teenager? Not his cup of tea, by any means.

The only thing which can scare today's teens is the brutality and shocking slaps of real life, nothing else.

very true,never thought of it that way

im not sure if you guys have it over there but over here you can get execution movies,its real lif filming of people getting executed in those corrupt countrys,getting hanged /stoned to death and all that.iv never watcheed it coz im not really interested in that vile shit but i imagine its just like a real life torture porn movie

[hammerfan]

Originally Posted by wizard of gore

very true,never thought of it that way

im not sure if you guys have it over there but over here you can get execution movies,its real lif filming of people getting executed in those corrupt countrys,getting hanged /stoned to death and all that.iv never watcheed it coz im not really interested in that vile shit but i imagine its just like a real life torture porn movie

When I was in the military, I remember renting VHS tapes (at the rental store) of movies called "Faces of Death". That's pretty much what they were, people being executed, animals being killed, etc. Never watched them again, and never will.

[Ferox13]

Originally Posted by hammerfan

When I was in the military, I remember renting VHS tapes (at the rental store) of movies called "Faces of Death". That's pretty much what they were, people being executed, animals being killed, etc. Never watched them again, and never will.

Fake executions you mean...

[horrorzack]

Originally Posted by Ferox13

Fake executions you mean...

Actually some of them were real but as more sequels were made they started faking them.

[Ferox13]

Originally Posted by horrorzack

Actually some of them were real but as more sequels were made they started faking them.

Which ones were real?

As far as I remember they showed 2. The Electrocution and the lethal injection, both of these were shot for the Mondo.

[wizard of gore]

Originally Posted by Медвежуть

if anyone wants to see real ones, you can check out bestgore.com.
just in case...

your a sick bastard,i bet you jerk off to that shit too

[Unshakable]

geez I leave for a few days and the thread falls apart....

Getting back to the original topic I watched all of the movies recommended by CheebaCheeba and they were all pretty good. None of them were scary but most of them were rather amusing and if you know of any more like them, especially like The Mist and Wrong turn, please share.

Its weird but we do have films of live executions here and I have watched a couple but watching a real person die from execution is pretty boring, probably because those people who are being executed deserved it.

[wizard of gore]

Originally Posted by Unshakable

geez I leave for a few days and the thread falls apart....

probably because those people who are being executed deserved it.

yeah i think one woman showed a bit of her skin in public