Why Do So Many People Watch Horror Movies?

I like watching people get brutally murdered.

Also people like to watch horror movies in the theater. It's similar to action and comic book movies.

To each his own. Bet you have movies you go see I think are f'ing stupid. I'm sure some of you gonna see some weird shite like sin city

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Take Gone Girl vs. Annabelle. One critically acclaimed, one not. Yet equal at the box office on opening weekend. I realize there's more to a movie than it's score on Rotten Tomatoes, but what's the draw to these "scary" movies? I never watch them, because their trailers always make them look like garbage (to me, at least).

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Simple: Different strokes.

I don't get why someone watches horror movies or goes to haunted houses. I have zero desire to be scared or to watch people get murdered in cold blood. There are plenty of non-horror movies I have to avert my eyes from because the scene is too gross or too graphic. I cannot watch Tarrantino movies for this reason.

I have a personal theory that people that enjoy watching horror movies are actually sociopaths that would otherwise be murdering humans or pets without the release of a horror film.

Horror movies are tailor made for theatres. Unless you have and extremely nice home theatre in your house with full surround, pitch black And a massive screen you can't get the same experience. Then of course there is the crowd reactions.

A great Horror movie is great. A terrible horror movie can be so bad it's still very entertaining.

A well scripted, we'll thought out, critically acclaimed, plot driven movie doesn't have to be seen in theaters and some are better to watch at home because you can rewind and re-watch and pause it.


So unless it's an action, horror, or super hero movie. I won't go see it in theaters. I'll just watch at home.

I love being scared.

I love horror movies, roller coasters, haunted houses. "Safe" scares. Anything that feels like an actual threat to my life I stay away from ( sky diving, water slides).

I love the Paranormal Activity movies and I've seen them all in theaters. Alone. Because my wife hates scary movies.

I plan to go see Annabelle soon because The Conjuring was the last movie to scare me so bad I literally couldn't go to sleep. I had nightmares all night after I watched it. It takes a lot to do that to me.

I've never understood it, myself. Horror movies don't appeal to me at all.

I find it disturbing the people actually watch those types of movies, but what's even more disturbing is the fact that somebody had to actually sit down and write that stuff.