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Redpyramidhead · Mar 17th, 2003, 10:41 PM

Just a comment I wanted to make. A movie does not need to "throw something at you" or make you jump in fright for it to be scary. Too many people go to these movies and expect to jump in their seat and be startled physically... To have the movie create a knee jerk reaction in them that is merely on a reflex level...well thats just primitive fright before us as primates way back developed the part of the brain associated with imagination and were incapable of being mentally scarred.....whereas, to be startled on a deeep mental level that leaves an impression on you is a much bigger sign of masterful work on a moviemaker's part. That can last you a while as far as repeating your formula for mesmorizing audiences, whereas you can only throw skeletons on the screen so many times before the audience gets bored of it. To me the anxiety and creepiness factor and engrossing storyline is equally, if not more, important than the equivalant of dodging flaming heads in your front row seat.
So what point am I so desperately trying to make? Well I'm not saying The Ring was the most psychologically damaging movie I've seen...IN fact far from it, but I feel that is a factor of the Horror genre just as much as the stereotypical factors of it. Horror as it started out was a lot different than what in turned into when it hit the movie screen.
OK blah...I am rambling...just enjoy a movie for what it is even if you dont get "scared" is probably all I should have said.

_RED_ stuff

Mar 17th, 2003, 10:41 PM	#15
Redpyramidhead pazparacolombia Joined: Sep 2002 Location: Restless dreams... Age: 45 Posts: 2,002	Just a comment I wanted to make. A movie does not need to "throw something at you" or make you jump in fright for it to be scary. Too many people go to these movies and expect to jump in their seat and be startled physically... To have the movie create a knee jerk reaction in them that is merely on a reflex level...well thats just primitive fright before us as primates way back developed the part of the brain associated with imagination and were incapable of being mentally scarred.....whereas, to be startled on a deeep mental level that leaves an impression on you is a much bigger sign of masterful work on a moviemaker's part. That can last you a while as far as repeating your formula for mesmorizing audiences, whereas you can only throw skeletons on the screen so many times before the audience gets bored of it. To me the anxiety and creepiness factor and engrossing storyline is equally, if not more, important than the equivalant of dodging flaming heads in your front row seat. So what point am I so desperately trying to make? Well I'm not saying The Ring was the most psychologically damaging movie I've seen...IN fact far from it, but I feel that is a factor of the Horror genre just as much as the stereotypical factors of it. Horror as it started out was a lot different than what in turned into when it hit the movie screen. OK blah...I am rambling...just enjoy a movie for what it is even if you dont get "scared" is probably all I should have said. _RED_ stuff __________________ "..loathsome laughing, mixed with such a cry as no man has heard save for in the phlegathon of unrelatable nightmares; a cry wherein reverberated the horror and anguish of a haunted lifetime packed into one atrocious moment..."