do aspies like horror books/movies?

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and is it true we hate romance books/movies? i do. they're so boring.
i talked to another aspie and he said he likes horror, too. so do I. so i just wondered if it's an aspie thing, or if it's just me and that other guy. i like action and scary books and movies, maybe because they don't deal so much with relationships and all that and concentrate on the action and fear instead.
what about you?

I like horror movies but that just depends. Some romance movies I like. I also have some thriller books in my home written by RL Stine.

I just finished the final draft of a horror novel. Not the first one I've ever started, but the first that got finished.



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My tastes are eclectic in the literal definition of the word: "selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas." My favorite writer is Philip K. Dick, but I don't read any other science fiction. I'm a huge Sherlock Holmes fan, but I don't read or watch any other mysteries. I love Patricia Highsmith and Dashiell Hammett, but I don't read any other crime. As for horror, I love H. P. Lovecraft and two of my favorite movies are Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, but I rarely read or watch any other horror.

No way, I find real life way too scary as it is! But you know what's weird? I like to listen to the soundtracks from a lot of horror movies, like Halloween and Friday the 13th, which I have on cd.

I love horror. I used to be obsessed with Freddy Kreuger. My favorite horror movies are the ones with dolls coming to life and killing people.

I like some horror movies, but the ones I like are few and far between... Same with romance movies or "chick flicks." Both of these genres of movies seem incredibly unrealistic to me. With romance, there's usually this love triangle thing going on, and then the woman is supposed to marry one guy, but the other one shows up at the wedding and then she suddenly realizes she wants the guy she wasn't originally going to marry. That kinda stuff doesn't happen too often as far as I'm aware. Beyond that, they're usually boring anyway.

As for horror, I can't get into them for partially the same reason: they're unrealistic, but even more so than romance movies. My brain analyzes stuff way too much for me to enjoy them usually. The Ring just made no sense to me. The Blair Witch Project just made me laugh my ass off. When I was a kid I appreciated the Friday the 13th series a bit, but that quickly ended due to the lack of realism. I mean, come on... Teenagers running thru the woods at top speed with Jason slowly walking after them... Then Jason magically appears in front of them... Whatever. My other issue with horror movies is the characters seem to be incredibly stupid. "Hey guys, there's a killer roaming around town. Let's split up, take showers, and have sex while all this is happening. GREAT IDEA, HUH?" A comedian named Pablo Francisco once said "you could strangle those kids with a cordless phone," and I feel that comment right there fits perfectly with how I feel about horror movies. Then there's ridiculous crap like "THE FOG." Oh no, not the fog. I'm so scared of FOG... The Hills Have Eyes: Not too terrible really, but that kid really pissed me off. He has a gun for most of the movie. He sees bad people doing bad things and gets scared and whatnot, but he doesn't take a single shot the whole time, EXCEPT when he's being chased, at which point he just wastefully blasts off rounds over his shoulder, missing every time. Almost every horror movie I've ever seen could have been ended in 5 minutes if someone would have just changed one little thing. I realize that wouldn't make for a good movie, but I don't feel that making people incredibly stupid just for the sake of making their situation worse/futile so it seems like they're in real danger makes for a good one either.

The only horror movies I really like are generally also comedic in some way(From Dusk Till Dawn, Sean of the Dead, Jeepers Creepers) because the fact that they're funny(at least to me) negates the fact that they're ridiculous and unrealistic. In fact, their ridiculousness is part of what makes them funny in the first place. The only exception to this is I used to like SAW(I appreciated it for the fact that it was a somewhat elaborate plot and not just some crazy guy with a mask and knife killing teenagers for no reason. It was different), but after seeing like 4 of them, I got sick of seeing people maimed in crazy contraptions. It just got old.

My favorite type of movies are comedy, war/action, and fantasy. I can appreciate Scifi too, but not so much when it's nothing but spacemen, robots, and aliens. That kind of stuff never really appealed to me. I have absolutely NO interest in Star Wars/Trek.

As for books, well I really don't read books at all. I used to love to read as a young child, but that ended when my school started having a hissy fit over the books I was reading. I used to read almost nothing but Garfield and Peanuts comics and those "Mr./Little Miss whatever" books(mr. happy, mr. grumpy, mr. sneeze, etc.). Apparently my teacher though I should have been reading Judy Blume/Beverly Cleary, so they made this stupid rule about how I had to take some kind of novel out of the library, and I was only allowed 1 garfield/peanuts book a week... So I just said screw it, if I can't read what I want, I won't read at all. The stuff they wanted me to read in school never appealed to me.

I enjoy classic horror literature: Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, the occasional Ray Bradbury, etc.
I don't care much for modern cinematic horror. To me it seems like it relies too much on gore and shock factor.

I personally despise "romantic" genres.
For me to try to watch a romance film would be like a starving man trying to watch a cooking show.

I tend to watch Asian horror movies when I'm depressed.

I love Asian, expecially Korean horror films, for fun!

Although, most normal American horror movies startle me too much so I don't watch those. Romantic movies can be good, I just never feel engrossed in the film. It seems so fake, it's rare to watch a good romantic movie. Sometimes I'll find one I like, it's usually foreign.

Yes! Horror movies, despite their unrealistic nature used to be my special interest. Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc. I still have a few hockey masks lying around, as Jason Voorhees was and is my fave.

They're not really all that scary, and they're quite predictable, but there's just something about them that's fascinating. When I got into horror movies it was when I was in high school, which was a very dark place. Maybe it's a revenge thing? I know that watching them made me feel better, that maybe the popular kids were getting their own, albeit violent, justice.

The next question is, who do you identify with, the killer, or the hero/heroine? Or more simply, do you cheer when Jason dies, or when he kills somebody? XD

Of course when Jason kills!

I don't really consider Slash'n'Splatter films to be true horror, they're just cheap suspense thrillers with no real plot. In fact, to be a purist about it, I don't think a true, honest-to-goodness horror tale can legitimately have a happy ending (though the commercial market usually demands it). The best horror film I've seen in recent years was The Mist. The ending of the film was much better even than the Stephen King story it was based on.

I don't like horror movies. Pretty much all of the anime I watch (except for Tiger & Bunny) are about relationships and romance. I also have a sizable collection of Harlequin romance novels sitting on my bookshelf. I'm a hopeless romantic at heart.

As long as it doesn't include some girl who can't properly defend herself, I usually enjoy horror films. I prefer sci-fi or fantasy though, just because it's a little bit more imaginative.

No, one would technically call them Slasher films, that's true, but you could call it a horror film because the acting is horrifying. Lol.

YES! The Mist was fantastically done, and the ending was superb. The movie's end was more Stephen King esc than the book's ending.