Re: Scary movies
Because the amount of gore in the movie is unnecessary. you don't really care about the characters because they're all kind of like stooges, just there for the sake of blood and blood and oh hey look more blood. And if you don't care about the characters, you don't really give a damn about the fact that they're getting needles in their face or whatever. so you feel no emotional reaction, which is the basis of the horror movie genre... to make you feel scared, or 'horrified,' thus the name. It's just an orgy of violence and blood and guts. Which is not really scary as much as just.. offputting.
I'm one of those people who react to being startled by laughing. Probably the reason why scary movies don't really do much for me. When something pops out of the darkness (remember those old maze games where you got to the end and a zombie would flash in your face with a loud scream or something?) at me I just bust out laughing. The amount of times I laugh is how I judge how good a movie is. If I don't laugh a lot, but actually get spooked instead, it's a good movie - because suspense is actually frightening. in-your-face creatures-popping-out-of-nowhere is just silly.
Why does nobody like those wonderfully sick Saw movies?
Because the amount of gore in the movie is unnecessary. you don't really care about the characters because they're all kind of like stooges, just there for the sake of blood and blood and oh hey look more blood. And if you don't care about the characters, you don't really give a damn about the fact that they're getting needles in their face or whatever. so you feel no emotional reaction, which is the basis of the horror movie genre... to make you feel scared, or 'horrified,' thus the name. It's just an orgy of violence and blood and guts. Which is not really scary as much as just.. offputting.
Scary movies are, for me at least, either frightening or hilarious. I thought It was hilarious, having read the book some time prior and having a better version in my head. Freddy Krueger freaked me out. Jason films were popcorn flicks. Many older films surprise me, and I was spooked at the end of the original Night of the Living Dead. I enjoy psych horror (suspense) over gore horror (gorror?) because, when done well, I end up doing most of the scaring entirely on my own.
I'm one of those people who react to being startled by laughing. Probably the reason why scary movies don't really do much for me. When something pops out of the darkness (remember those old maze games where you got to the end and a zombie would flash in your face with a loud scream or something?) at me I just bust out laughing. The amount of times I laugh is how I judge how good a movie is. If I don't laugh a lot, but actually get spooked instead, it's a good movie - because suspense is actually frightening. in-your-face creatures-popping-out-of-nowhere is just silly.