Are you more scared of horror when you were younger, or more scared as you got older?
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I feel like now the real world is much more scarier than horror in media, I kinda got desensitized to fear in horror games. Still scary, but I remember being much more terrified when I was younger.
Both. I always have been and probably always will be easily terrified with horror media.
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I feel like now the real world is much more scarier than horror in media, I kinda got desensitized to fear in horror games. Still scary, but I remember being much more terrified when I was younger.
I grew up watching horror movies and was largely detached from the fear, it never got to me outside the occasional jump scare. Sometime in my 30s that started to change, and then I also made some bad choices like watching horror movies after eating too many shrooms, which has made it worse. I still occasionally enjoy horror but mostly I find the genre unpleasantly stressful. My body in general seems to be a lot more reactive. When I was a kid I once had a chunk of glass impale my hand, which I dealt with totally calmly as blood gushed all over. Recently I cut my hand while cooking and nearly passed out and threw up. I think I am getting soft as I age.
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I feel like now the real world is much more scarier than horror in media, I kinda got desensitized to fear in horror games. Still scary, but I remember being much more terrified when I was younger.
Life is far scarier than any horror movie.
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I feel like now the real world is much more scarier than horror in media, I kinda got desensitized to fear in horror games. Still scary, but I remember being much more terrified when I was younger.
wrote last edited by [email protected]For my part as a kid, anything that was scary wasn't just scary in a classical sense but because it was fast, violent, and unrecognizable. Nowadays most of what's scary is easily recognizable and I think many of us have spent time thinking about just how we'd react in that situation. (Whether or not it would work, mind you xD). Now, real horror... not the silly shit in the movies... still retains some of that 'magic'. (I hate myself for calling this magic, I hate it haha). Indie horror video games exemplify this horror, imo, because it's almost completely fabricated from someone's imagination that's not mainstream at all... it jumps out at you and in a split second you have to friend/foe it.
I watch Hollow play these games (cuz no thank you), in attempt to 'normalize' more and more so I can just enjoy a quiet evening in the dark with a smile.
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I feel like now the real world is much more scarier than horror in media, I kinda got desensitized to fear in horror games. Still scary, but I remember being much more terrified when I was younger.
Horror scared me as a kid, and still scares me now, hence why I don't watch it or play horror-based video games.
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I feel like now the real world is much more scarier than horror in media, I kinda got desensitized to fear in horror games. Still scary, but I remember being much more terrified when I was younger.
Definitely younger. I started watching horror movies at 4 or 5 so I'm pretty desensitized to most types of horror, but am constantly chasing that feeling. Jump scares and gore do nothing for me, I want "afraid to turn off the lights" or paranoid anxiety for few hours after. That's the good stuff.
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I feel like now the real world is much more scarier than horror in media, I kinda got desensitized to fear in horror games. Still scary, but I remember being much more terrified when I was younger.
I've never been scared by scary movies. I'm reading IT by Stephen King (for the second time, I first read it when I was 11 or 12, or about the same age as the kids in the book) and it's good, but it's not scaring me. Neither did Pet Sematary. Next up will be The Shining. King makes some good scary situations, but they don't really make me scared.
The only thing that's really triggered a fear-like response (more like anxiety though) is movies with scenes of domestic violence (particularly towards kids).
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I feel like now the real world is much more scarier than horror in media, I kinda got desensitized to fear in horror games. Still scary, but I remember being much more terrified when I was younger.
i don't really understand horror as a genre. i don't really remember any horror i've seen as it leaves no real impression, and i don't seek it out.
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I feel like now the real world is much more scarier than horror in media, I kinda got desensitized to fear in horror games. Still scary, but I remember being much more terrified when I was younger.
wrote last edited by [email protected]well that depends. when i was younger i was scared to even watch a horror movie but when i watched my first in middle school i laughed at it (not in a bad way) and have been getting the last laugh ever since
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i don't really understand horror as a genre. i don't really remember any horror i've seen as it leaves no real impression, and i don't seek it out.
have you tried Get Out (2017) or the same director's Nope (2022)?
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no, i don't seek out the genre as i said.
