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I've never turned off a movie or been unable to watch it.
That said, when I saw Jaws as a little kid (6-7 years old) I was always wondering if a Shark was going to get me. Even when I got up a night in my house to go to the bathroom I always thought he might jump through the floor or the toilet.
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When I was that age, I was terrified that the creature from the black lagoon would suddenly stick his hand up from the toilet :D As a child there were many movies that had that effect on me, but up until a certain limit it was kind of cool to be scared... I sometimes wish I could watch scary movies with the eyes of a child again.
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Occasionally certain movies will hit me a certain way and creep me out. When I watched Sinister a few months ago the atmosphere gave me the creeps and even though I guessed what was going to happen all throughout the movie, it still made me uncomfortable and made it tough to watch.
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When I watch a horror movie, I always hope to be scared. That rarely happens after all these years of watching hundreds of horror movies, but I'm always hopeful. But there is a fun way to be scared, and an unpleasant way. It's like going on rides at amusement parks, you might enjoy one type of ride, but another one is too much of a challenge.
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I used to be really into Gore and Realism but as has been mentioned I guess I have also gained empathy as I've aged, and I now find it hard to watch unless it is Comedic in nature. Dead Alive is over the top and doesn't bother me but watching the guys ankle snap in Saw III bothers me something awful.
Torture also bothers me now. Probably 15-20 years ago I first watched Salo: The 120 Days Of Sodom and the torture sequence at the end was fairly hard to watch. I don't know if I could watch it now. I watched a movie last year called Boy Meets Girl (1994). That was probably the closest I came to turning off a movie.
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I can relate to that, but that's not really because I'm SCARED - it's just unpleasant in a way that I don't enjoy. I CAN watch such a movie, and it won't scar me forever, but I just don't enjoy it. I relate in a different way to the character's pain than I did when I was younger. I guess some of the reason is that I suffer from strong muscle/joint pain and am slowly losing mobilty, so stuff like breaking bones and severed limbs is now something that truly disturbs me.
That being said, I still love gore, but I was always into the more unrealistic stuff anyway... I've always been like that with horror movies in general.I'm not at all pointing my finger at people who enjoy realistic horror, it's just my personal preference, and that type of movies have very little to do with why I fell in love with the horror genre.
I watched "A Serbian Film" once, and I honestly wish I hadn't. It didn't
scare me - but I absolutely won't ever watch it again. Call me a boring old woman if you want to LOL