I remember watching
The Orphanage and initially thinking "meh". But then the next night I had this strange compulsion to constantly sneak to the kids' bedroom just to make sure they're still there and everything's OK... Whether it really counts as a "scary movie" for me is thus questionable, but at least it gave me some horrorish feelings after the movie...?
It seems to me that movies that are able to scare during their run are rare once you've grown up. Of course if you're in a theater you jump a couple of inches when the screen goes all red and there's a 500W orchestra strike in the soundrack synced to that frame. But isn't that more about reflexes than scares?
Then there's the kind where "you just know something bad is going to happen" all the time. That is more horrorish to me. But this effect is also put to use in other than horror movies. Heck, the worst one of this "oh, please just walk away and don't do anything stupid now, please"-genre was, for me, Mr. Bean's holiday. You
knew he was going to screw up and you felt terrible for him in advance... But no, I'm not advocating that as a horror movie either :rolleyes: .
Then, like in The Orphanage the after effects can really be kind of "scary". It doesn't have to be a horror movie, though, a good drama can have similar effects. So I don't know if you count that...
The "spooks" kind of horror has no lasting effect on me and because I don't want to wake up the family I often watch them with so little sound that the orchestral "spook" effect is lost on me anyways.
As for gore filled films... well, I don't need to turn my head from the screen, but I do not actually
enjoy the slicing and dicing either, I just find it repulsive, not scary... Actually romantic movies often make me want to puke too, so maybe the genres are not that far apart?
So... like... what was it that made horror horror again? :unsure: