{"id":2800,"date":"2023-09-29T22:30:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T03:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2023-09-28T14:31:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T19:31:01","slug":"my-favorite-horror-movie-from-someone-who-hates-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/2800\/arts-entertainment\/my-favorite-horror-movie-from-someone-who-hates-them\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Horror Movie From Someone Who Hates Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

I cannot watch horror movies. The moment I hear eerie music or am forced to sit through an unusually long scene in the dark, I get up, take a walk, and try to forget what I saw. Blood, ghosts, clowns, and such freak me out. It isn’t the sight of them that scares me (I love gory medical shows), but the suspense of not knowing who\u2019s going to appear when. I double-checked behind my back just now\u2013even the thought is anxiety-inducing. So, naturally, I decided that the cure to this would be to binge-watch several over the past few weeks (with the lights on, of course).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I started my horror movie journey with the classics: <\/span>The Exorcist <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>The Shining<\/span><\/i>. The former made me cover my eyes and take long, deep breaths for an hour straight, but the story (which I was only capable of watching after previewing it on Wikipedia) was fairly interesting. There was a lot of gross medical imagery, which looked fairly fake at times – but was still enough to make me scared. I would never watch it again. The latter was more familiar to me, yet equally terrifying. However, if I zoned out for a moment, I could admire Shelley Duvall\u2019s screaming power. I liked the acting performances in both and could see from how they’d scared me why they were objectively good horror movies (if you can even describe a horror movie as good), but I did not love either.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Next, I moved to some more modern favorites: <\/span>Hereditary <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>The Conjuring<\/span><\/i>. Unlike the classics, the 21st-century advances in makeup and special effects made both of these much more disturbing. They both gave me a couple of jumpscares, but the Annabelle plotline felt so unreal that I was almost able to relax.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jordan Peele cinematic horror universe was unnerving and deeply scary, but so well written, filmed, and acted, that I almost forgive him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My favorite horror movie, as expected, ended up being a bit of a cop-out. While the first few minutes of <\/span>Midsommar <\/span><\/i>use murder and darkness to scare its viewers, the rest of the movie is surprisingly calm. What\u2019s awful about it is the psychological suspense that unravels. It gives you a good think and leaves you feeling a little nauseous, but its pastel color scheme makes it watchable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m still a little confused as to why anyone willingly watches these movies, and even more confused about how someone creates them. I\u2019m proud of my perseverance in the land of horror, but I think I\u2019ll go back to romcoms for the time being.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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