What do you look for in a horror?

[sparkledazzle]

I love a good horror film but everyone likes different thing, so what is it that you find scary in a horror film?

If I go to see a horror film I want to be scared, and not see loads of blood and guts because that's not scary.
The things I find scare me most in horrors are when something can come at you at any time and almost can't be stopped.
So, I tend to enjoy zombie films because of this. The fact that they can just keep coming after you and then if the numbers get too high, you're pretty much screwed.

And ghost type films, like The Grudge. I think I found it scary the way she moves, I hate things moving in a jerky way- for some reason that freaks me out. What I like about Japanese horror is that if there's something after someone in there films, they don't wuss out like most films do. a chaarcter goes and hides in her bed, the go in under the sheets and get you.
One of the films I have called Cursed has a woman who realises she's been followed by this mallet carrying freak when he comes across the car park after her. He's walking slowly, dragging the metal mallets head on the ground as he walks. She manages to get to her apartment, lock the door- she's safe! In most films. In this one he gets inside and kills her!

[b_Pooly]

I look for horror. I mean seriously, think of all the overly hyped horror movies, they all proclaim they deliver the horror, none do. Blair Witch Project? It's more like the Snore Witch Project, the ring was only scary when she crawls out of the tv; that's just me being messed up, has nothing to do with the movie being scary. Very few movies give out the scares.

[Captain Smiley]

I look for a leprechaun that fucks people up for stealing his gold.

[tedthered]

Paranormal activity, such Poltergeist, The Sixth Sense, White Noise, 1408 etc. Slasher films are lame. I mean really, you've got a group of 7/8 people running away from one idiot in a mask with a knife. Just outnumber him and kick the shit out of him.

Slasher films don't even deserve to be called "horror".

[crowrules]

I feel that any horror film can freak you out if you let your yourself get in the right frame of mind. Watch a horror film late at night with all the lights off and just let your mind run away with the movie. You can start hearing stuff and your mind will think the worst and it can freak you out.

I have freaked myself out on many horror movies, that I don't find really scary. Like Amityville Horror, it isn't scary but one night I watched it and got freaked out by it.

Just my opinion, agree or disagree.