Anyone else NOT like horror?

[sam_gordon]

Since we're approaching Halloween, is there anyone else who doesn't like horror? I don't do horror movies, don't like haunted houses, just generally don't like being scared.

And just in case some tries to read more into this, I'm not saying to do away with any of it. I simply don't partake and was wondering how alone I am.

 

[RivGirl]

Since we're approaching Halloween, is there anyone else who doesn't like horror? I don't do horror movies, don't like haunted houses, just generally don't like being scared.

And just in case some tries to read more into this, I'm not saying to do away with any of it. I simply don't partake and was wondering how alone I am.

I don't like horror movies. The exception to this for me is watching the occasional campy horror film in the movie theater with a reactive crowd - I have found that to be a fun experience. Watching home alone? No thanks. My daughter has always loved scary movies, even from a young age. I'm happy for her, but I'm still not into it myself.

I have a love/hate relationship with Haunted Houses. I just took my son and his friend to one last week, at my son's request. First Haunted House I went to in over a decade. The whole experience was about 80 minutes and I I screamed-laughed-screamed the whole time. An exhausting combination and I had a wicked cortisol hangover the next morning!

 

[kdonnel]

I don't like most horror movies.

I did find by going to the Regal Mystery Movies that there are some that are ok and even fun.

For example, Talk to Me. I never would have picked that movie but actually enjoyed it.

It's A Wonderful Knife and Lisa Frankenstein were also good but I guess more funny than horror.

I guess I really only like comedy horror.

 

[Snowysmom]

I don't like horror movies or haunted houses. I do go on Haunted Mansion at WDW but only if someone is with me. Crazy I know because I have been on it many times but still need someone sitting next to me.

 

[soccerdad72]

Not a fan either. As a teenager, I suppose I watched a fair amount with a group of friends, but it's not a genre I'd seek out today.

 

[Moliphino]

I don't like most horror movies and generally don't watch them. There are some exceptions, as I did really like 28 Days Later and watched Supernatural religiously the whole run.

 

[BrianL]

I am not much of a horror fan, but it can depend. Like, I like old horror movies, like Universal Monster films and such. I like light horror, or like a Tim Burton movie where it's dark but kind of fun, or something like Poltergeist. I guess it's more accurate to say that I don't like "slasher movies" - the things like Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street, which have become synonomous with the genre.

 

[disneychrista]

You are definitely not alone. A good friend won’t watch them/doesn't like them. My coworker also hasn’t seen most of the classics and doesn’t really like them. Though she has seen Saw.

I like the classics with Freddy, Jason and Michael. But not so much the newer ones.

 

[prairie_girl]

I wasn’t allowed to watch scary movies growing up so I’m not desensitized to them at all. I have watched a few as an adult but they’re just not for me. Paranormal activity remains the scariest movie I have ever seen..I hate jump scares because I flinch so much.

 

[_19disnA]

I don't care for horror movies of any type, but don't directly relate that to Halloween. We have a similar discussion each year at work where there a few who feel like celebrating Halloween is somehow 'anti-religion' where others feel it is just a fun one-day holiday for children to collect candy from neighbors. There are lots of choices for Halloween costumes if the creepy ones aren't your thing.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I don't like most horror movies and generally don't watch them. There are some exceptions...

I am not much of a horror fan, but it can depend.

This is me too. I don't seek out horror movies or like the preponderance of ads for them at this time of year. But there are a few exceptions that I've watched because a friend or family member wanted to, and I liked some of them. I consider The Birds a classic, I watched Poltergeist back in the day, and I was the "cool mom" who took DS and all his friends to see It when they needed an adult.

I don't mind the campy old "alien blob from outer space" type movies, but I find the newer psychological horror movies bother me, and I don't go in for the the slasher series format.

My speed for "scary" movies runs toward Hocus Pocus and Jaws.

 

[Silvermist999]

I used to watch horror as a teen and during my university years with my friends but ever since my kids were born, I can’t watch them, especially the newer ones that are gory. I do still enjoy the early Halloween Michael Myers movies, very scary still.

 

[lynxstch]

I don't care for horror movies one bit.

 

[fla4fun]

The Haunted Mansion is one of my favorite rides, but it is as scary as I will go. No scary movies ever, no Halloween events like HHN or Howl O Scream, no scary books or tv shows. There is enough scary stuff in everyday life. I don’t want it to be my entertainment as well.

 

[piglet1979]

I do not do any scary movies. I would have nightmares for weeks if I did. I was a kid when Ghostbusters came out and I had nightmares that the Marshmallow man was coming to get me for weeks. So now I just completely avoid them. My kids watch these movies with their dad when I am not around.

I went to a few haunted houses when I was a teenager and hated every minute of them. I went to impress a guy and that I did not do. I spent the whole time with my head buried in his back and him shielding me because I was scared to death. I have avoided them ever since.

 

[Praying Colonel]

I find it all boring and manipulative.

I also don't like what feels like a huge surge in Halloween decorations in the last few years. I can't wait for November 1. And you kids get off my lawn.

 

[Kitty 34]

I definitely don't like hack and whack movies.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I don't like modern horror movies that are just people being murdered one after the other. I'm not a fan. I do like the classic pre-code horror films like Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, etc. Atmospheric and with a true sense of the macabre. I also don't like scary haunted houses and won't go in one. Why do that to myself? My favorite attraction at WDW is the Haunted Mansion, but I don't find it scary in the least.

 

[EACarlson]

Some I like, most I don't. My whole family is the same way. My kids have no interest whatsoever and my wife will watch even less than I do.

 

[slo]

I don’t like any of it - not a fan!
I used to watch Nightmare on Elm Street, when that was popular back in the 80s, but not anymore.