Hmmm... You've never seen a movie that scared you? Not even psychologically? A friend of mine said that the gore doesn't get to her because it's the psychological stuff that she "takes home with her." So it's the cringing that gives you the thrill?

Yeah--I noticed that, about the rehashing of exploitation films... especially with obvious references to films like Last House on the Left. Do you think the recent ones differ from the originals in concept? How do they modify--if they do at all--beyond the addition of more gore?

Mictlantechutli--you bring up an excellent point I hadn't thought about. When I think about music, I think about sociopolitical climate. I just hadn't thought to apply that to film -head hang sheepishly-. Great observation.

ManchestrMorgue, thanks for bringing up the Exorcist and Dracula--I didn't know that they, too, were reported as having physical side-effects. ...Do you know if these physical reactions occur in any film genre apart from horror?

Me, I'm curious on my own level... to a degree...
Like, do you ever feel guilty... or, well, any kind of emotion... at our ability to watch movies like these? That we're that desensitized? Or do you think it has nothing to do with desensitisation... because it all looks fake anyway? Do you think it looks fake?

I'm a bloody coward. I know it, in real life... I mean, put me in any of those Saw situations, and maybe I'd escape 3/12 of them or however many there are. I feel like if I watch them, it gives me that small revel because I know I could never do it in real life. One of my friends watches because he thinks it "prepares" him, should a similar situation ever occur to him (ok, not Saw style, but you know). How do you justify your attraction to the genre? What makes it make you tick?