although I never considered it Horror, which is a genre I avoid like the plague.
I'm not sure what else you'd call it. I've avoided most modern horror for a long time, mostly because blood-and-gore just isn't scary to me. HorrorPorn, they call it: when the film is just about how horrible they can be to someone.
And then there was this Professor at York, Andy something, who was supposedly an academic expert on horror...but he thought Nightmare on Elm Street was the absolute perfection of the genre. When I told him that was the movie that made me give up on horror altogether...well, I guess I was lucky I was only auditing his class.
SPN has led me back to the genre, mostly because I want to get all the movie references in my show! But a lot of the "classic" horror movies don't impress me. My idea of horror is much more, well, British. I grew up watching Hammer House of Horror and Tales of the Unexpected: horror with plot, and a certain level of plausibility.
The Exorcist on the other hand I could not watch.
You know, my Mum did such a job of hyping up that film for me that I was really disappointed the first time I saw it. She'd told me all this stuff about how people were fainting in the movie theatres and suchlike...it wasn't until I came back to it as an adult that I could see why it was so frightening. I guess being a kid when I first saw it, the added horror of that happening to a kid just didn't register with me.
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I'm not sure what else you'd call it. I've avoided most modern horror for a long time, mostly because blood-and-gore just isn't scary to me. HorrorPorn, they call it: when the film is just about how horrible they can be to someone.
And then there was this Professor at York, Andy something, who was supposedly an academic expert on horror...but he thought Nightmare on Elm Street was the absolute perfection of the genre. When I told him that was the movie that made me give up on horror altogether...well, I guess I was lucky I was only auditing his class.
SPN has led me back to the genre, mostly because I want to get all the movie references in my show! But a lot of the "classic" horror movies don't impress me. My idea of horror is much more, well, British. I grew up watching Hammer House of Horror and Tales of the Unexpected: horror with plot, and a certain level of plausibility.
The Exorcist on the other hand I could not watch.
You know, my Mum did such a job of hyping up that film for me that I was really disappointed the first time I saw it. She'd told me all this stuff about how people were fainting in the movie theatres and suchlike...it wasn't until I came back to it as an adult that I could see why it was so frightening. I guess being a kid when I first saw it, the added horror of that happening to a kid just didn't register with me.