What makes you a horrorfan?

[Horrorfan]

Another great question to ask the members of Horrordvds.com What makes you a horrorfan?

[BloodMan]

A chance to get away from the real bullshit of the world and relish in bloodshed and violence. Wait... that is the real world. Hmmm.

[fceurich39]

A chance to get away from the real bullshit of the world and relish in bloodshed and violence. Wait... that is the real world. Hmmm.
AGREED

[Guyver99]

Horror fans are not made, they're born. :D

[thrashard76]

Horror fans are not made, they're born. :D
I'll agree to that.

[Damage]

It's the chicks.

[Damage]

Okay, seriously. It's because horror movies are so much fun.

[BloodMan]

Really... its just to get away man. I have friends who despise horror movies because they are dumb, as they say. I'm under the feeling that that is kind of the point. You can't obviously take shit like that seriously. They totally diss the flicks I like and yet they love and totally get a kick out of shit like Spiderman and Bad Boys 2... wtf?? Its the same just a different genre. But ya, its just a place to go for an hour and a half - two hours and just let yer mind settle down. Watching Braindead... thats like joy! Horror... Its the only genre really where you can just turn off everything and just mellow out and have fun. Sure I dig a good drama or something that makes ya think sometime, but ya, horror films r gold. :)

[John Gargo]

I don't like horror films. They're too violent and have often have no socially redeeming values whatsoever, and what is film but a medium for artistic expression that casts a critical eye on the society at large?

[Lyle Horowitz]

I grew up on it. The first kind of films I was interested in was horror. I remember watching Tales From The Crypt on HBO w/ my dad when I was little. I remember reading EC comics and reading scary books, too. Horror has always been my main forte. What keeps me coming back for more, I don't know. The mysterious, strange, unusual? I tend not to overanalyze why I like something, I just do.

[Erick H.]

The desire to willingly experience terror onscreen,in all it's many forms,and to not be mortified by it,but to be electrified by it ! Some of us enjoy breaking taboos,letting the imagination run at it's most wild.Others want a release of their bottled up anxiety.A horror film is a great way to let loose,to escape,to recharge.It's safer than drugs and cheaper than a shrink !

[betterdan]

No fancy answers here, I just like horror movies that's all.

[bigdaddyhorse]

Easiest answer = I'm a horrorfan cuz I love horror movies. :glasses:

[RichardHaines]

I'm a horror fan a specific type of film. I like those that are scary in terms of their technique (special effects, cinematography, characterizaion) as well as terrifying on a psychological level. Pictures like "Psycho", "Night of the Living Dead", "Carnival of Souls" and "Carrie" are multi-textured fright films. They have a nice combination of special effects/fright scenes, excellent characterization, good cinematography and a Freudian subtext that lingers in your mind long after the screening.

I do like an occational slasher film that generates scares with shock cuts or gory scenes although they are usually not worth seeing more than once. Still, they can be short term fun. Another type would be the low budget, cheesy exploitation film which are entertaining in the sense they're so bad you laugh at the ineptitude. A six pack type of movie.

[mcchrist]

I'm still not certain whether or not you'd consider me a horror fan. The majority of what I watch is related in one form or another, but I fluxuate too damn often.

I know what I like to see, though. No matter what I watch, and I'll make no bones about it. Sex and violence. The more of it, the better. The more twisted and grotesque, the better...

Why?

Because I get my jollies off. There you have it. Catharsis comes in many forms, sex and violence is one. Other films I watch, motivation can be simply childhood nostalgia (in my case, that could be horror as well. I loved being a kid and going to the video store and looking at all the "big box" VHS tapes sitting on the shelf.)

Hell, I guess that last sentence could be my answer. I'm being a dick tonight, I'll stop.

[Alan Yates]

when I was a child being scared was the ultimate in feelings to me, sure films can make you laugh and cry a little but it was just not the same as laying awake in bed all night, heart thumping, imagining that creepy clown doll at the bottom of your bed was gonna try and drag you under and kill you as soon as you shut your eyes whilst waiting for the door to spring open and have a chainsaw welding leatherfaced manic running into the room or thinking about waking to find you have a facehugger attached to your face...
The shock of actually thinking you saw real death on film the first time you saw a dodgy Beta bootleg of cannibal holocaust. to me it was these feelings that got me into horror. its stayed with me ever since those days.. its the buzz. its just a shame that nearly all films these days dont give you those feelings.

[onebyone]

Easiest answer = I'm a horrorfan cuz I love horror movies. :glasses:

That's pretty much what I'm thinking.

[BloodyBabe]

I love the rush I get when I watch a horror film. My heart races, pulse quickens and I get goosebumps all over my body! :D

[Grim]

I've been addicted to them since I was little. I'd say about 90% of my fondest childhood memories involve me and my buds watching horror films.

[dwatts]

Nostalgia is a huge part of it for me. I started watching them when I was very young. I don't know if I could have generated a similar level of interest if I was being fed a stream of new horror films only.

[Hellbilly]

No fancy answers here, I just like horror movies that's all.Same here.

[John Gargo]

You are all depraved. I see the MPAA has not done its job properly if it has allowed such a filthy and morally corrupted medium to become such a mainstay in all of your lives. It's not to late to turn your lives around... go to your local rental store and instead of ordering some worthless trash from hacks like Romero or Carpenter, rent a Barbara Streisand movie instead... you'll thank me in the morning.

[betterdan]

You are all depraved. I see the MPAA has not done its job properly if it has allowed such a filthy and morally corrupted medium to become such a mainstay in all of your lives. It's not to late to turn your lives around... go to your local rental store and instead of ordering some worthless trash from hacks like Romero or Carpenter, rent a Barbara Streisand movie instead... you'll thank me in the morning.


Ok it is a little past the morning time but I will not thank you. I went and rented What's Up, Doc just like you said and it will give me more nightmares than any horror movie ever could (except that horrible Night Crawlers :nervous: ) Streisand is pure evil :evil:

[walkingdude]

No fancy answers here, I just like horror movies that's all.I think in order to be known as a true horror fan you have to own a copy of I Drink Your Blood.Right Dan?;)

[betterdan]

I think in order to be known as a true horror fan you have to own a copy of I Drink Your Blood.Right Dan?;)
You son of a...

[RichardHaines]

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[betterdan]

Excuse me Richard but I think he is doing a little what we call "fucking with us."
Lighten up man, life is fun :)

[John Gargo]

Woah, I just woke up with a painful hangover, my head on the keyboard and my desk is scattered with countless empty bottles of Soy Sauce. I have no recollection of having made any of those uncharacteristic posts... Man, I need to quit drinking...

Barbara Streisand haunts my dreams... :nervous:

[betterdan]

Bottles of soy sauce? Man you are hitting the hard stuff, please seek help immediately.

[BloodyBabe]

Lol! :lol: Drinking soy sauce????
John, did you drink it on the rocks or straight up??? :D

[Wez4555]

its funny. growing up in a conservitive christain family, i always thought to rebel. i used to watch horror movies cause in my family they were "taboo". after awhile the "taboo" died and i was hooked! what kicked it off was watching tales from the crypt on HBO and watching the nightmare on elm streets, chuckys, F13ths, etc. on cable (wasnt aloud to watch R rated movies back then). by middle school, my mom stopped caring and i just went ape shit and rented every horror tape i could. lucky for me, i went to underground video stores and got exposed to more than what blockbuster would carry. its also where i got exposed to the faces of death and the like. ooooo my mom hated those and had them "banned" from the account. i always found a way to sweet talk my way to letting the clerks let me rent them anyway. long story short, ive been watching since as long as i could remeber and i will always love them. after all 95% of my dvd collection is horror.