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Do you watch Horror films to be scared and held in tension, or disturbed and grossed out.  I realize that there's a lot of overlap between these two, but just tell me which you prefer in a horror film.

That's me.

I watch them for the effects and monsters. I like 80's stuff, where people like Savini and Steve Johnson were imaginative and creative with latex and make-up.

Don't forget Rob Bottin and KNB.

Scared and held in tension.  Though it's only the really good horror movies that can create some tension, so I've lowered my standards.  I mostly like horror because stuff actually tends to happen in those movies, and there's usually boobies.  I dunno, I just like supernatural plots and that sort of thing.

I'm with Circus Circus on this one: I watch for the effects. Very few movies have managed to scare me; a few more than that have managed to at least creep me out a bit. But I enjoy seeing how things are done, and horror movies often make fairly imaginative use of everyday things since they are often low-budget productions. I enjoy the ingenuity of the filmmakers as much as (if not more than) the story.

Few scare me either. I watch differnt movies for differnt reasons.
For example-I watch Lugosi movies for the simple fact that Lugosi is in them...wether it's a classic,like The WHITE ZOMBIE or a stinker like The APEMAN. I like the story and the charecters in ROSEMARY'S BABY,the FX in John Carpenters the THING,the over the top gore and all around insanity in BURIAL GROUND (and the zombie midget!),the cool rubber monsters in AIP's 1950's films, the fun in EVIL DEAD II, the busty girls and silly monsters in the HORRORS of SPIDER ISLAND...
well-you get my drift.

Some DID spook me on first veiwings-like the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE,the EXORCIST,the SHINING  and even the BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE!

I watch them for all of the above reasons except for being disturbed.  I like to be "fun" scared, where when it's over I know everything is going to be OK - not Event Horizon scared where I think the devil is going to come from outer space and pull me into a black hole where I will turn inside out and chew on my eyeballs!  I also like the make-up and gore effects, boob n butts n stuff, etc..  Also, horror movies, especially older or supernatural horror, tend to be very "pretty" in that they're set in big beautiful houses with lovely ladies dressed in pretty dresses and stuff or in scenic woodsy areas.

Choosing between fun-scared/gross-out and creepy/pretty, I think I slightly prefer the fun-scared/gross-out kind.

I prefer them to nowadays, where we see a lot more of CGI type effects.  Not that CGI doesn't have it's place. 

But it feels more AUTHENTIC knowing that there's a crew of 50 working on effects, as opposed to someone saving money by hiring like, 2 guys with a computer to do the same thing that looks less effective.

In my opinion, at least.

For the most part I watch them to be scared, I let myself become scared when watching horror, and when it's well made it works! The next most prominent reason, however, is entertainment; Stuff like Waxwork or Phantasm doesn't really scare me, but I still love it for the plot and effects. I think getting grossed out or disgusted is in last place for the reaons I watch horror, mainly when I watch a movie for that purpose it's to see if I actually can get grossed out! (I have something of a high tolerance for it)

I a perfect world, I'd say suspense and intense fear.  Unfortunately, few horror movies have any suspense or intense fear, so I try to settle for imaginative, bloody killings.

I've been watching "B" movie horror/sci-fi/monster films for (gulp) 50 years, I watch them to escape the silliness of everday life, if I think the story is good then I'll put up with a lot of bad special effects, by the same token if the effects are good then I can put up with a real dumb story. I like being able to go somewhere else for an hour or two, even if it's in my own mind.


Here's a piece of trivial information, Rob Bottin is one of the people that turned my lovely wife into a sasquatch for Alan Landsberg's documentery "Manbeast, Myth or Monster"

Guess what I found on youtube-Poogie as Man-beast mebbe? Here's a clip from MANBEAST:MYTH OR MONSTER...!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcQOVEtnB2w

Actually that's one of Poogie's costars, she thinks her name is Terry Terrell. The movie was filmed in 1978 and the people who played the Sasquatches were not listed in the credits. At the time Nicolas Webster, the directer, told everyone that the decision to do this would make the film segments more believable. I think it was so they would not have to pay union scale wages to the actors. Poogie got a free trip to Hood River City in Oregon and later in 1979 we revisited the Hood River Valley and got to see all the places where the movie was filmed. That was a great vacation.

Let's cut the BS.

I watch horror movies because I'm a sick freak.

That said, might I have actually ended up indirectly moral by finding fake monsters less offensive than fake heroes?

The monster isn't trying to kid itself, unlike the fake hero.

I hate fake heroes.

Never meet your heroes, kid.
They'll only disappoint.
Apparently.