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I've been watching horror movies my entire life. I used to watch the Hammer films when they aired on channel 5, and when I was younger my favourites were The Wolfman and Abott & Costello meet Frankenstein. The first truly scary movie I ever attempted to watch was JAWS when it debuted on channel 4, when I was 7. I had no clue what a shark was because I didn't live by the ocean and back then you weren't really exposed to them unless you did. I thought it was a monster movie like Godzilla or something. Boy, was I fucking wrong. I got as far as the first victim's head disappearing below the surface and I ran out of the room. I didn't watch the movie in it's entirety until I was 14.
That being said, and like I said I've been watching horror movies my whole life. I use this disclaimer so that you're aware that I've seen pretty much everything from The Haunting (original) and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, to pretty much every modern horror movie. To say I'm jaded would be an understatement. Gore isn't enough for me to like a movie, though it does help, no, what I need is a movie that's so well crafted that it terrifies me to my very soul. So imagine my surprise that when I was 30, I saw a movie that did just that. I went into the theatre unassuming and completely not expecting to be so scared that to this day the movie gives me chills. That movie is The Ring. Yes THAT Ring. What scares each person is 1000000% subjective and that movie scared ths shit out of me.
Sorry for the super long post.
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