As a deeply anxious person, I love horror because it's the only time I see people reacting appropriately to the world around them, and I find that soothing.
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EXACTLY
like, I have a phobia of crowds and Thanksgiving with that stupid scene of people getting trampled at black friday gave me validation I wasn't aware I needed
Tryin'a remember the article where the woman wrote, "People are surprised I like slasher movies, but they're the only films that don't suggest I'm hysterical if I don't immediately trust a man or my surroundings."
I avoided horror for many years because of PTSD, but I have come to embrace it for that very reason: average people seeing what some of us know. I’m still more on the psychological horror side, less gore.
There’s also the sense that it’s possible to survive #Ripley
With horror, I enter into its fiction with the promise that something is wrong. I get to puzzle out what is wrong, identify metaphors, and get a little spooked all while being perfectly safe. It’s very satisfying and soothing for me as well!
Always had terrible anxiety and I've loved horror since I was kid. Didn't fully appreciate why horror is comforting to me until I became disabled about a decade ago. Horror is my therapy.
You say in horror movies you see people acting appropriately for the danger they are in, but I kind of side with the old Geico ad, where you have people making a lot of bad decisions. https://youtu.be/NYae3ZAAbLc
I didn’t realize this was a central reason I fell in love with horror until I was probably 40, but it really was why I initially fell in love with it as a kid. That combined the audience’s appreciation for creativity really did it.
I think I'm on a similar trajectory. Loved horror since I was a kid without really understanding why. The pandemic drove it home for me. I hate pretending things are normal when they're not.
I found The Thing an unexpectedly uplifting viewing during the pandemic. They were listening to science, updating their assumptions and working together. So I 100% get what you mean.
There's a very good chance you've already seeing it, but given your reasons for liking "The Thing" you may very well enjoy "Phase IV" (the 1970s film, NOT the film with the same title featuring Dean Cain).
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like, I have a phobia of crowds and Thanksgiving with that stupid scene of people getting trampled at black friday gave me validation I wasn't aware I needed
horror most often qualifies violence as violence
There’s also the sense that it’s possible to survive #Ripley
It’s percussive maintenance for the CNS
Give it a good whack to reset it