Uhhh...I like watchin' people die..I mean the suffering of the characters is one of the highlights of the genre. Is there somethin' wrong with macabre obsessions? Depends on which circle your in....

I don't think anything is wrong with that. I mean people watch action movies because they like to see the hero kill a lot of people and that's pretty much accepted as "normal".

It's wrong in all the right ways...That old tale The Monkey's Paw affected me when I was a child...I ended up takin' a porcupine foot to school to scare girls.

You're preaching to the choir. I was the kind of "weird" kid in school who convinced his classmates that he had evil powers and would put a curse on them if they messed with him. They all believed me too! I even once made a voodoo doll of my mom's friend who I hated and scared him into moving out of our house when he found it. I also like collecting weird stuff like real animal skulls and crystal stones and I have a fascination with the occult and anything dark and morbid.

Of course I don't actually enjoy seeing people get killed but that's just me.

Ok then, maybe I'll start with you. ::devil::

Maybe we are smart enough to know that believing them makes them more fun? Anyone can sit in front of a film saying "this isn't real". I make an effort to become engrossed.

Well of course I do the same thing, otherwise I would find the genre to be boring and uninteresting. I just mean that I don't get scared watching horror movies, and I don't watch them because I enjoy seeing people get slaughtered either. I have my own reasons for liking horror movies.I like seeing all of the cool monsters and I like seeing the main character (who is usually a female character) defeat the monsters in the end.

EDIT: Ah, who am I kidding? Sometimes it IS fun to see people get killed in a horror movie if they are ***holes who pretty much deserve it. Like that school teacher from Child's Play 2 or Trash from The Return of the Living Dead (and she came back in one of the coolest zombie resurrection scenes ever!).

Yeah just keep tellin' yerself it's not real ::big grin::
Corruption of innocence is a big hook fer me...

Of course, it's going to be different for everyone, but I got my love of horror from my dad. He would say, "Ohhh, we got a spooker!" A "spooker" being a scary movie, obviously.
I'll never forget, as a very little kid, telling my dad that I had discovered a new scary show. It was Scooby-Doo.
I think I still see horror movies as cartoons. As Yosemite Sam being shot out of a cannon. Not that they're funny, exactly, but I just like how unreal they are. The dark imagery and ideas appeal to me. Grown-up Scooby-Doo.

While im probably at bit older than you guys i also loved Scooby Doo but then again, Scooby Doo has been around for a long time! I love most horror for the mood it creates. I love 80's horror but i have a harder time with some of the "newer" horror. I hate the term torture porn but i guess along those lines.