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.
I never have been scared by anything other than human monsters. Whether that is a caricature documentary or reality is largely irrelevant. When I was younger and dumber, at around 8-10, I started saying I want to see any kind of supernatural event or entity because it would validate the (bullshit mythos) doctrine I was raised with. So when I watched most of this stuff, it comes across as the psychic potential of human monsters. I have never found it amusing our sought out this kind of junk, but only watched it when others wanted to do so. My meta awareness never really falls away into the background; I never lose my empathy. So the camera fodder characters come across as the monstrous cosplay proclivities of the writer. I find the reactions of others watching around and with me to be a far more interesting unfiltered window into their true self.
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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. Like at a pretty young age I actually got scared of stuff on TV and movies. The only stuff that actually gets me now is jump scares which isn't actual fear.
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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 didn't like it when i was younger, now i mostly shrug at it. It's only a video game, after all.
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As far as movies are concerned, it was a lot more scarier when I was younger. Like mentioned, I think the vast majority of horror movies are just... costume playing. One exception, that is not strictly speaking an horror movie but still is a movie that did really scared the hell out of me the first I watched it is Jacob's Ladder. I was pinned & terrified.
As far as books are concerned, it depends who I'm reading as getting older I've been introduced to real... I would not say scary writers but real disturbing. Those that will not shy away from the most... delicate topics.
Want to share some of those writers? It's not easy to find books that are actually disturbing.
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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.
Younger for sure, watching horror movies on a CRT from VHS, when you are pre-teen or something, is scary! Now I am completely desensitized from them, they do nothing for me, and I don't watch them anymore, I prefer to watch something else.
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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.
Maybe a hot take, but I've never really found horror to be scary at any age. I enjoy it more for the tension and suspense. And cool shit that happens in dark fantastical settings. In fact a lot of movies lose their edge when they reveal "the monster". It's better to imagine or only have a slight glimpse, or else it risks getting cheesy.
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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.
Much more as a middle aged person than when I was a teen / younger adult. Probably still less scared than when I was a little kid.
I watched a lot of darker / violent movies when I was 15-25, and really enjoyed them. But over time I started finding horrible stuff happening really hard to watch. It's not so much the fear, it's just that I can now empathise and imagine suffering in a way that I just couldn't when I was young.
I can't enjoy a stupid slasher movie when all I can think of is how the families of the dead teens would have to deal with the grief. Even action movies, unless they're pretty campy, just remind me of what real people genuinely and tragically have to experience.
It's kinda shitty. Sometimes I think i need to desensitise myself, but it also means that older movies where violence and darkness is often implied are still really impactful.
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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.
