When I was growing up I had always loved horror movies. Later I came to find out there are horror movies and there are Horror Movies. The bloody gore and violence attracted me. I enjoyed watching getting the shit scared out of me. From canabal holocaust to the european horror movies I enjoyed watching. The movie is NOT real but the Fear IS real.
But its not real. Reality is suffering. I cannot watch real suffering. I can and enjoy watching the bloodiest movies which all have a death theme. But its only a genre. The children who suffer from poverty and hunger on channel 3 on Saturday morning are too gut wrentching for me to watch. Thats real. They wil die if they dont get help.
Faces of Death and other videos showing car accidents and people being shovelled off the highway is Real . I have watched it but it hits way to close to home. THAT could be me. Having said that, there is something I have always had a morbid curiosity about and will watch every time its on and that is ppl getting slaugtered by a bull in the riding of the bulls. Yes its real but there are so many doing it that I HAVE to watch and see what happens even though i already know the bull is going to gore the guy to death. Sick and twisted and fun to watch for sure. If my son was hurt by a bull it would change everthing . I am sure I would no longer get any kick out of watching such an event. In fact im sure it would repulse me. If a family member was killed in a car accident, the next time I drove by an accident I am sure I would be watching to see if I could render a hand to help instead of gazing at where the bodies are at.
I think the human condition is to be curious about most things and to learn and if we are affected detrimentally by an event we change our thinking. I dont fault you for your curiosity. I think the more I watched the goriest movies the more I wanted to find the scariest goriest movie so i could BOAST that i sat through it.Most ppl dont want to experience HORROR they want to experience pleasant feelings. So they dont watch horror movies. But i have alway felt that watching a guy in a mask chase you with a knife is prolly the same as if it was in real life and if i had to chose between a boring movie and say Halloween part 1 , i ll chose the horror. Does this make us disturbed?
Probably a little.