Here is why nothing is really scary

skykiii said:
Same deal with being sick. Even if its a disease that is harmless and you know will pass, its not a fun experience, so I avoid it.
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Fear of reliving an unpleasant experience is still fear. You can call it distain, hatred, or just plain avoidance, it's semantics at that point. But no one ever says "I hate X" without some underlying consequence of X that they're afraid of experiencing. You might not be scared of Dr. Pepper, you might not be scared of the taste, but the the desire to avoid unpleasant experiences was triggered when you tasted Dr. Pepper and decided you didn't like it.
 
I just have this to say:

The kids these days, you know the ones that post in YouTube comments sections. They are huge pussies and everything scares them.

Old music? It's sUpEr CrEePy because they heard it used that way in a horror movie once.

Old anything, like clothes or black-and-white photos? Scary.
Clowns, mascots, playgrounds? Scary, because it was in a horror movie once.

They have no frame of reference for anything besides fiction and everything is creepy to them. This generation needs to be flogged.
 
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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
I just have this to say:

The kids these days, you know the ones that post in YouTube comments sections. They are huge pussies and everything scares them.

Old music? It's sUpEr CrEePy because they heard it used that way in a horror movie once.

Old anything, like clothes or black-and-white photos? Scary.
Clowns, mascots, playgrounds? Scary, because it was in a horror movie once.

They have no frame of reference for anything besides fiction and everything is creepy to them. This generation needs to be flogged.
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It's fucking annoying. Every time there's a new horror movie that comes out and it looks promising, it ends up being dogshit because it isn't actually scary, but all of the zoomies and the rest of my generation are like "HOLY SHIT BRO THAT WAS SCARY!!!"
Don't get me started on people with cartoony animal masks. That shit is not scary at all and it bothers me to no end.
 
Try a film like Let's Scare Jessica To Death. It's a weird film about a woman who is convalescing at a farm house after a stint in a mental hospital. There's a town legend about a vampire and Jessica gets a bit obsessed with it and everyone thinks she's going kookoo again. It's weird. It's uncomfortable. It's very 70s. You might not like it but it's weird enough to be worth watching at least once.

Burnt Offerings is worth a watch. It's heavily atmospheric without showing you some stupid cheap monster or ghost popping out. Also, Karen Black.

I like horror movies where you have no idea what the fuck is going on and that's the whole point. Don't Blink is a good example. A group of friends go to a mountain resort only to find it deserted. There aren't even any birds chirping. One by one people start disappearing. One goes crazy from the stress.

You have to really dig around to find stuff that suits your tastes. Teen screams are getting worse because the kids have bad taste about what's "ooh spoopy!". You're gonna have to wait awhile for those trends to be replaced by new ones.
 
Dysnomia said:
Try a film like Let's Scare Jessica To Death. It's a weird film about a woman who is convalescing at a farm house after a stint in a mental hospital. There's a town legend about a vampire and Jessica gets a bit obsessed with it and everyone thinks she's going kookoo again. It's weird. It's uncomfortable. It's very 70s. You might not like it but it's weird enough to be worth watching at least once.

Burnt Offerings is worth a watch. It's heavily atmospheric without showing you some stupid cheap monster or ghost popping out. Also, Karen Black.

I like horror movies where you have no idea what the fuck is going on and that's the whole point. Don't Blink is a good example. A group of friends go to a mountain resort only to find it deserted. There aren't even any birds chirping. One by one people start disappearing. One goes crazy from the stress.

You have to really dig around to find stuff that suits your tastes. Teen screams are getting worse because the kids have bad taste about what's "ooh spoopy!". You're gonna have to wait awhile for those trends to be replaced by new ones.
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I sometimes like 70s and 80s horror, not for being scary or disturbing but just for their stylistic choices. Someone recently got me to watch one by the Suspiria guy (I can't remember the movie's name but its supposedly one of the movies that inspired Clock Tower) and while it still wasn't scary per se, I had a lot of fun with it. These days, that's the most I hope for.

One of my own disappointments with the genre itself... I feel like the genre is a good vehicle for exploring the weird, but its rarely used that way. I actually find "true" horror (such as the youtube channel Bedtime Stories) far better than most movies or video games.

Horror video games are unfortunately the one that's went downhill the most. There are occasionally good ones (Yomawari) but too many people either do Mascot Horror, or they wanna do Silent Hill inspired, and honestly neither choice is that appealing to me.
 
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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
I just have this to say:

The kids these days, you know the ones that post in YouTube comments sections. They are huge pussies and everything scares them.

Old music? It's sUpEr CrEePy because they heard it used that way in a horror movie once.

Old anything, like clothes or black-and-white photos? Scary.
Clowns, mascots, playgrounds? Scary, because it was in a horror movie once.

They have no frame of reference for anything besides fiction and everything is creepy to them. This generation needs to be flogged.
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Friendly Primarina said:
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Yeah, this shit right here makes me want to pour molten lead down the throats of Millenials and Zoomies. Super Mario 64 is the gayest most kid friendly shit to ever exist and anyone who says shit like this video here unironically needs their fucking ass beat. It's like the idea of "horror" they have is nothing but jumpscares and clichés because they're literally brainless idiots who absorb 100% of their "knowledge" from Hollywood dog shit and journoniggers. Give them something simple (but deeper than fucking Mario 64) like Junji Ito's "The Long Dream" and they won't even be able to conceptualize why that story is actually unnerving or terrifying.


As an aside, go through the comments on that video and look at the kind of people there. So God damn many use their actual picture (fucking retards) as an avatar. Take a good hard look at these dickless people and tell me they don't deserve to be bullied or get their ass kick. I thought the other kids were gay babies when they thought the Donkey Kong game over was "scary" in my childhood, but you know, at least we were all kids at the time. These are fucking teenagers and ADULTS saying this faggot shit.
 
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The only scary thing is muslim children coming to my door on Halloween and begging for free candy. Nigga, that's haram. I bet they won't be even in costumes, again.
 
Nick Gars said:
Yeah, this shit right here makes me want to pour molten lead down the throats of Millenials and Zoomies. Super Mario 64 is the gayest most kid friendly shit to ever exist and anyone who says shit like this video here unironically needs their fucking ass beat. It's like the idea of "horror" they have is nothing but jumpscares and clichés because they're literally brainless idiots who absorb 100% of their "knowledge" from Hollywood dog shit and journoniggers. Give them something simple (but deeper than fucking Mario 64) like Junji Ito's "The Long Dream" and they won't even be able to conceptualize why that story is actually unnerving or terrifying.


As an aside, go through the comments on that video and look at the kind of people there. So God damn many use their actual picture (fucking retards) as an avatar. Take a good hard look at these dickless people and tell me they don't deserve to be bullied or get their ass kick. I thought the other kids were gay babies when they thought the Donkey Kong game over was "scary" in my childhood, but you know, at least we were all kids at the time. These are fucking teenagers and ADULTS saying this faggot shit.
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These are entire generations who never got into a fight seeing a spoopy ghost in Mario64 probably does scare them.
 
TyrasGuard said:
You can't be scared of something you don't relate to in some form or level.

Fear is THE most subjective thing I can think of, even more than art.
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my biggest horror is nothing to do with mean killers or evil demons or zombies


its wifing up a whore, finding out my kid aint mine, and then getting taken to the cleaners in a system that hates me
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
I just have this to say:

The kids these days, you know the ones that post in YouTube comments sections. They are huge pussies and everything scares them.

Old music? It's sUpEr CrEePy because they heard it used that way in a horror movie once.

Old anything, like clothes or black-and-white photos? Scary.
Clowns, mascots, playgrounds? Scary, because it was in a horror movie once.

They have no frame of reference for anything besides fiction and everything is creepy to them. This generation needs to be flogged.
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Kids raised fully digital are terrified of the analog world.

You can still see how millenials would be nostalgic for stuff like game cartridges, old polaroids and vhs tapes but kids born a decade later see that stuff and want to shit themselves. I think its because you are reminding narcissists that the world existed before they were born and that the seamlessly blended social media timelines of the last decade and a half are fake and gay and none of it matters. The most effective Horror is ultimately existential

There are new horrors of course, like what if your father troons out or what if digital prostitution and e-begging is the only remaining source of income after every career path is ruined by automation but your credit score is too low to get noticed.
 
I don't watch horror movies because they're scary, most of them aren't. There's just something relaxing about them.
 
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