Desensitisation
 

hey, doing a research project and i need to ask a question to the fans. can audiences still be scared or have we become desensitised? any help appreciated!

Your mom was desensitised after i got done with her!


Joking of course. But seriously, there is always something that will scare you..

I feel that there is always that maybe one movie made a year that can scare the shit out of you. Most of the horror movies (in my opinion) now days are all made the same way. They all follow a similar plot. To me Darkness Falls was scarey and so was Dawn Of The Dead. I don't know if that helped you any, but I tried my best, sorry if it was to no avail.:)

I think different things scare different people. Personally, I wasnt scared by any of the movies that most people say are terrifying [IE: Exorcist, TCM, Dawn of the Dead, Halloween, ect.], but was scared by one most people find stupid, Blair Witch Project. So it depends. Although I just have to laugh at people who get scred by things like Boogyman or Cursed....

I agree with you on the Blair Witch Project man. I think it was so scarey because it was in the woods and you didn't really know what was after them. So I guess you could say that not knowing was the scarey part of that movie.;)

Actually, I was only scred during the last 10-20 minutes....honestly, I hated most of it, boring as hell. But from just before they get to the house until the end...damn, that was great

my opinion is if your desensitised i see that there is
no way of having any kind of emotion muchless the
feeling of being scared , that is the way i see things
:)

That might not be true though, cuz if you're desensitized to violence that doesn't mean you just stare at it blankly.

There's a lot of gory things out there that a lot of people just laugh at.

gotta apoint. i agree:)

maybe we aren't entertained anymore if there isn't enough blood or explosions but we still get scared.

anyone recall details to the blues brother movie. They probably destroyed like 200 cop cars and not one of them blew up, they flipped around and piled up but never exploded, these days all those cars would blow up..