#11

In agreement with you after this clarification.

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#12

I wouldn’t go in the sea for two years after I saw Jaws for the first time

#13

boss looking at my internet usage

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#14

Theo this is a terrible example. If you’d’ve said Jaws and the sea then fine but nobody was afraid to have a shower ffs.

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#15

Theo’s obviously blissfully unaware of the existence of films like Martyrs, Inside, and Wolf Creek. Just thinking about them can ruin my day.

#16

Yeah Theo! Were you expecting a Great White to appear in your bath? Dickhead!

#17

First time I watched The Birds I didn’t visit an owl sanctuary for 15 years.

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#18

:joy:

#19

I’ve seen Wolf Creek. It’s a great suspenseful film. It’s not really scary on any visceral psychologically scarring level, though.

It certainly makes you recall things that are gruesome but I don’t rock back and forth in fear at that.

My point was more that the horror films mates always claimed to be the scariest were the ones they saw when they were in school. The Thing, for example, had that “Oh my god it’s so scary” thing over and over from everyone. I didn’t see it until I was 20 or something and by then it was basically just a suspense-filled action sci-fi. Same sort of thing with Alien.

#20

Yeah.
After I watched Martyrs I totally gave up murdering families in their own home

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#21

that my hand luggage, despite being measured and weighed by myself, will somehow exceed the stringent regulations

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#22

Im not scared by scary clown man or whatever but am much more affected by ideas and themes in films i wouldnt have been as a kid. Found Rosemary’s Baby deeply unsettling the last time I watched it whereas I thought it was boring when I first saw it coz there was no obvious ‘horror’ in it.

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#23

You’re wrong, sorry

People did claim that they were afraid in the shower after Psycho.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/01/movies/psycho-in-janet-leigh-s-psyche.html

Asked if doing the book has somehow eased her fear of showers, Ms. Leigh laughed. “I have absolutely no intention of stepping into a shower,” she said.

I’m not sure modern adult viewers of Jaws are going to be affected the same way either. @NoahVale how old were you when you saw Jaws?

#24

Other people

#25

I chose those three films because they all explore, in excruciating detail, just how cruel and inhumane people are capable of being. Talk all you want about how things are only scary if they’re “visceral” and “psychologically scarring” - but as far as I’m concerned, that’s a concept that will never stop being scary.

#26

Well shut my mouth!

#27

This is a fair point. Okay, there are still going to be definite adult things that can likely scare the hell out of you, although I don’t know how much they stay.

You have swung me towards this point of view here. This also implies a lot of films need to go for different angles, I guess.

#28

Stop making horror films guys

#29

I’ll be clear that I am not necessarily laying much credence by these claims. These were the things that were said at the time the film came out. It’s hard to judge how much were, in today’s terms, trolling or studio-pushed astroturfing type of stuff. But I can imagine there definitely were people who took showers without ever drawing the curtain again and with the door always locked or something. I think the film did things no one had considered before.

#30

Silly, jump-scare nonsense isn’t scary to me anymore, but I find films like Eden Lake and Green Room stay with me. So I guess I’m scared of being somewhere a bit remote and things going very murdery.

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