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11 Sep 2011, 11:31 pm

I do. Horror movies and books are a fascinating look at the human psyche.


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12 Sep 2011, 12:14 am

Fatal-Noogie wrote:
To me, gangster movies are much more frightening than horror movies (in a good way).
In horror movies, it seems like the villain is usually some bizarre, Avant-garde psycho
with implausibly elaborate Rube Goldberg-type methods and suspiciously shallow motivation.
In gangster movies, the villains are fictional extremes, but they represent something that is a real danger in some cities.


Yeah I guess you're right, but as a child the world beyond your own cognitive faculties is practically inexsistent.
But yeah as an adult they are very much real (and devastating).



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12 Sep 2011, 5:29 am

I love horror movies Saw series, Paranormal activites, The Rite, Chucky series, Scream, Freddy vrs Jason, I know what you did last summer, Pyscho, Carrie, The Excersist, The Ruines, The Hills have eyes to name a few, Stephen Kings The Shining. Stephen Kings books.



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16 Sep 2011, 9:43 pm

i took a step back from the whole genre since paranormal activity destroyed me inside :P
you gotta see it as a love/hate relationship.
those things really interest me and i'd end up googling about the subject for days(which i can't do because it might become my new interest what i don't want at all)


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16 Sep 2011, 9:59 pm

I know someone on the spectrum who LOVES horror novels. Never got into them myself, though.


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17 Sep 2011, 3:29 am

Christopherwillson wrote:
i took a step back from the whole genre since paranormal activity destroyed me inside :P


Oh yes, that was awful. Given the reactions from everyone else in the cinema, who all seemed to be under 18, I think this is a rare occasion when the certificate might be the upper age limit.



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17 Sep 2011, 6:27 am

Thom_Fuleri wrote:
Christopherwillson wrote:
i took a step back from the whole genre since paranormal activity destroyed me inside :P


Oh yes, that was awful. Given the reactions from everyone else in the cinema, who all seemed to be under 18, I think this is a rare occasion when the certificate might be the upper age limit.

i saw it twice in the cinema and more then once at home, i wouldn't recommend them to any age really, The movie is banned from my house when i'm in it(which is all the time) haha.
the movie just bugs my head so much that i can't think clear anymore, how can you also hide from an invisible being that can come trough walls?


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