It’s October and all my movie channels have horror movies on. They are really barbaric movies! Are we living in a new dark age? I like some of the nitty gritty but I felt suicidal today watching some. I like Stephen King books, mostly audiobooks I get from the library or on YouTube. Do you find enjoyment watching that stuff or do you find it disturbing. I definitely wouldn’t suggest a person who is new to mental illness to ever watch it, but this is my new normal. I’m old.
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I can’t watch anything.
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I was phasing out today watching a flick so I turned the TV off. My brain has so little awareness!
I’ve watched horror movies in the past…
Night of the Living Dead, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, and others…
I don’t really watch that many movies anymore. When I do I prefer Comedy or Science Fiction.
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Horror movies aren’t a problem for me but I know they might be for some people
Yeah, they kinda trigger me. I avoid them. Although, I do like The Shining. I used to watch scary movies before sz
They can be scary, but they never give me the same kind of fear that i get from my own thoughts. The monsters in horror movies are external from my own waking reality so i can forget about them. The hell that i live and experience is something that i cant forget. Maybe it’s different for other people.
Its not for me.
After my first divorce, I hated myself and everyone we else. I wanted to destroy myself, mentally, physically and any other way I could think of. I watched only the most horrifying movies I could get (think of the Guinea Pig series, Audition, Ichi, many unnamed others), I made sculptures out of animal bones, and my acolytes would bring me partially dessicated animals in buckets, right outside my door, until they were “ready,” , my brother half jokingly said I had the “Jeffrey Dahmer sink,” because I had various parts finishing dessication there. In any case I watched a ND listened to the most horrible, self flagellating music and videos that were available at that time, stuff like Merzbow Venereology, Namanax Cascading Waves of Electric Distortion, Skinny Puppy’s Ain’t It Dead Yet…plus lots of operation stuff off the tv…also trips to the Mutter Museum, a museum of things that can go wrong with people during birth or thereafter…
My idea was that I was so horrible that I should become as one with all that was hideous and ghastly and wrong and irredeemable and end in a lower pit of hell forever. Thankfully, something pulled me out.
This is part of my psychosis.
I’m glad something pulled you out.
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I love horror movies. I mean they’re all fake anyway, it’s just fun for the sake of it. I don’t mind a few good scares. I had a year early on in the disorder where I had to stop watching horror because it would trigger bad visual hallucinations, but on my current meds I don’t really experience visuals anymore.
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Carrie was the most disturbing movie I ever saw and it was the reason that I chose not to go to my senior prom
I was to cinema once and saw a horror movie.
They are and they aren’t. There are tame ones meant to give you a little ooh! …but there are ones meant to get down into where the bad things live, unless you know you don’t better go down things are there that are
This reminds me of myself when i was a teenager. I also liked merzbow, and listened to a lot of throbbing gristle and nurse with wound and stuff. I had a plan to go on “death tourism” to places where a lot of people died, like jonestown guyana and aokigahara.
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As long as they don’t trigger you. The spectrum is pretty wide and varied in horror really. At the tip of the iceberg you got pretty tame but really fun horror movies like The Conjuring franchise.
Then at the bottom of cinematic Hell there’s stuff like extreme Japanese horror and a certain notorious picture that was made in Serbia.
Personally I like my horror movies to at least have a sense of humor about themselves.
In terms of content and originality I consider the late sixties through the eighties to be the golden era for horror cinema.
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I dont know. You got some movies where they come out of the tv.
If you ever actually plan to go , please let me know. I am so attuned to places like that.
Oh definitely not. This was teenage me, i was in much worse place back then. Im more interested in extreme life than extreme death these days.
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I love horror movies. I’ve never had a problem with watching them. What I find disturbing is feel-good shows and movies that gloss over obviously problematic things. Horror movies are unproblematic. Just avoid them if they trigger symptoms.
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