Introducing people to Horror

[The Flayed One]

Originally Posted by UngodlyWarlock

I don't really bother.
I sort of have a problem with other peoples' tastes not being similar to my own. Not that I have a problem with different opinions, of course, that would be silly. I just generally don't like putting forth effort into knowing people that aren't into the same shit I am into. I've operated this way with everyone in my life.

Anyways...I find I get frustrated when I mention something of my interests (for the topic of my thread, we'll say Horror movies) and they look at me with blank eyes or giggle or whatever.

Not worth my effort to recommend things to them.
If I see the seeds have already been planted and they say they really enjoyed "X horror movie", then I will always offer up recommendations, though. That's what it's really all about, though. The seeds have to be there for me to even bother....and frankly I just don't meet many people on a day to day basis that are worth even trying to recommend great movies to.

-D

You just need to try to introduce them to new movies by using their foreign titles. They'll love it.

[UngodlyWarlock]

I'll just point them your way so they can annoy you. :p

[missmacabre]

I can understand being frustrated by others views on horror. Whenever I am about to mention I like horror movies I start out with "Now don't think I am weird or anything but.." I feel a little ashamed for saying that but at the same time, when I am meeting new people I don't want their (usually skewed) opinion on the genre to effect how they see me. Sometimes I won't bother saying anything. For instance if a person is over the age of 40 and doesn't mention horror first, or if they are someone I met through church connections I will just keep my mouth shut. Biased and horrible, I know. But I would rather not be forced to deal with the drama had they really disliked my tastes.

[missmacabre]

While introducing on of my close friends from ggrade school to some of my favourite horror movies today a hilarious conversation occured.

Mike says:
lat den ratte komma in?
Mike says:
i think i found it on imdb
Mike says:
sounds like it could be good
Mike says:
i like movies with good character development
Jen says:
yep thats the one
Mike says:
lol i jut have this image of like an angry russian sitting on a chair with a shotgun waiting for a mouse to pop out of a mouse houle and saying “lat den ratte komma in”
Mike says:
got his vodka on the table beside him
Jen says:
LOL

[roshiq]

The remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre! yeah...that's the film that I always showed to my friends whoever (not seen much horror films before) comes to me & expressed an interest to watch a good horror film from my collection. And surprisingly that works (it also dragged me into the genre as a horror fan)! Though initially they get freaked out but later they asks for some more TCM like horror films to watch. And some of them have already become horror movie freaks.:)