Horror is the Best Genre (and here's why)

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I hate horror with to much blood...i dont want to be grossed out lol. I think horror is supposed to be scary , not disgusting. I also like hauting, possesion movies and weird stuf...not stuff like universal (you have to like this if u like horror) movies

I dont think Im smart enough for this video

That music was torturous

amazing totally agree!

Okay, I didn't expect this video to be THIS GOOD. Congratulations and thank you!

I've been in a low place in my life and have found in books and films a way to escape my own head and overwhelming feelings. Never EVER liked horror. I'm very easily scared and get very anxious with horror films but since it's October I thought I'd give it a chance. Although I'm watching mostly psychological horror and still shy away from body horror, gore and haunted stories, I'm finding a strange comfort in the horror genre. It's really helping me cope. The movies don't even look so scary as they did before (maybe because paying attention to my own anxiety is way scarier right now but who cares).

Action+Horror+Thriller = Pure entertainment💯

I get pleasure watching people bwing scared and seeing fear in their eyes. Makes me feel good.

I like horror simply because of the various imaginative potential content it could puke out, most being not so good but when it does it is quite rewarding to see or experience in the end when it comes to entertainment.

horror is the all-encompassing genre

if i was asked "why do you like horror" my answer would be "because I'm interested in the human condition of existence" EZ

This video was wonderful!!

There are a lot of words I don’t understand from the video, what books do you recommend for me to start with as a non native speaker.

an utterly incredible video. im scouting around for what to write my english lit dissertation on in september, and this video has convinced me that i NEED to write about horror.

Psychological horror is what scares me the most cause anything that has to do with messing with your head REALLY scares me

Great video! Horror is my favorite genre, and it's refreshing to hear someone describe so plainly. It's frustrating how often people say a movie isn't horror just because it didn't scare them.

Although this video is 2 years old I wish you used smaller words. I'm just passively listening and it feels like I'm listening to someone giving a college presentation with all these elaborate words when you could use simple speech to explain the same thing and reach an audience that is not as educated as You are. I'm a college graduate and I understand most of these words but you're even losing me occasionally

idk why but certain horror movies calm me ...

Anyone know the song at the beginning?

I would be an even bigger horror buff if there was an increased frequency of better spooky movies. For every "It Follows" or "The Autopsy of Jane Doe", we have a slew of cinematic mediocrities or atrocities to weed out or sift through.

The classics like Alien or night of the living dead come to mind as personal favorites of mine. Theres a lot of bad horror out there, but every now and then youll come across an absolute masterpiece. Horror games in particular. There’s nothing really physically scary about Soma, for example. But what the character is makes you question everything you know about you yourself and the world you live in.

basically, horror: press x to doubt.

Horror needs to focus on good plotlines and characters rather than trying to be a scare compilation.

What is the title of the background music in the opening?

what was the movie with the dog (?) coming out of the person's face? tia :)

Beyond excellent - thank you! Keep it up!

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Holy shit, why haven't I ever discovered your channel before? I'm in love and want to watch everything you've ever done now! (I appreciate how much you cite from and synthesize your own thesis from INTERESTING scholarly/critical sources more than anything!)

What an absolute find your channel is! A lot of effort with a well-articulated yet constantly engaging video essay.

Great video! Thank you 😊

Brilliant, love the quotes to support your perspective. It's like a visual essay on horror! Like

Still stubbornly hoping you might review Emily Carroll's Through The Woods.

As long as the movie doesn't have too much gore in it and doesn't psychologically damage me too much I can handle watching horror.

Just gonna remark on the perfection of the name "Elaine scarry"

Interesting take on horror. It's a genre that i enjoy, but a lot of subgenres that i dislike. You hit a lot of the key things that i enjoy about horror.

This is pure nonsense, this doesn't prove a thing!




















- Gary, The Thing

if you want an honest answer to why i love horrors then here we go. because you asked: i specifically like torture revenge movies because well i have been abused in my life. since there is no way for me to track this person down i fulfill the need for revenge through these types of movies. lol you asked. am i weird for never cringing. i never look away

A well made horror film is a wonderful thing, but in small doses. All I see now are horror films. I write this at christmas time and on all streaming services there are more horror films than anything other kind - and crappy ones too. If I watched horror more than once in awhile I would begin to feel awful. If I had to watch them all the time I would jump off a tall building. Thinking about horror so much is not good for people.

Your name reminds me of Janice Rand’s actress

Elaine Scarry has a fitting last name for this subject!

I already love horror, but this made me move it more.