I tried to watch a scary movie once, don’t even remember which one it was, but I couldn’t sleep for months. It felt too real and unnatural and it just tore me apart, I just couldn’t stop thinking about it.
Thankfully I’ve successful blocked said memory and all I have now is an intense aversion to anything scary.
I appreciate you passion and would love to know WHY you love Halloween and spooks and scares and horror and terrors and slashers and all the things that I wouldn’t watch if you held a chainsaw to my neck (or whatever happens in those movies).
Depends on the person but there was a study that looked into it. They said its sort of like controlled stress and anxiety. You are entirely in control of the situation that your in. Something about it creating healthy coping mechanisms. Probably similar to Rollercoasters .
One of my first addictions growing up, was reading. Normal kids books, I would just DEVOUR them. They helped me escape my chaotic childhood with an alcoholic father. But normal stories eventually became too quiet for me. I graduated to Stephen King. And then realized that all forms of horror could do the same. They dulled my everyday life and gave me feelings that I could control easily by shutting the book or flipping the channel off. As an adult I absolutely love all things supernatural and Halloween. It all brings me comfort!
Spooky? Yes!
Gory? No No No!
I love Halloween and the whole autumn season. The falling leaves, carving pumpkins. Baking treats. Firing up the log burner for the first time. Giving out candy on the night, seeing tiny toddlers in their adorable costumes at their first Halloween. That’s what I love.
But when it comes to super scary movies, that’s not for me! I can do spooky, ghostly and a jump scare or two. But excessive blood and gore and guts I can’t watch. The Supernatural series is just right on the scaryness scale for me. But hey, I can watch scooby doo and call it a Halloween movie
Hubie Halloween on Netflix became instantly an annual thing - and it’s going to stay that way for Halloweens to come.
I have had a lot of trauma in my adult life. I used to hate horror movies and be very frightened by them, but now I find them comforting. It’s like, what’s in my head isn’t so bad, and it takes me out of my own anxiety. It is hard to explain.
as a kid i used to love horror movies but was scared shitless of them as well - i would force myself to watch 80% of them while hiding for the other 20%
i love Halloween and everything about it and yes even haunted houses used to freak me out (i would get such anxiety walking through haunted houses or haunted forests.) after years of putting up my own haunted houses and getting more and more into Halloween on a different level i have somehow gotten over my anxiety and fear… now i watch horror movies back to back with no issues… i’ve dedicated sept and oct to nothing but horror and its brilliant. - now i can appreciate the good ones and am very critical of the bad ones its all about facing and acknowledging your fears for me.
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