I am so fed-up of being called "sick" for liking horror movies!!

[Spider-man 2]

What's wrong?! Last night, I got shited by my dad because he saw a scene of Candyman 3...and it hit the fan!!
My cousin, some friends and now my dad!

I know this has happened to some of you...what do you think!?

[stevereno]

my mom thinks im weird but she respects me for it. i dont really have any problems exsept when i compulsively talk about horror movies and freak my friend out

SHIVER ME TIMBERS

[Spider-man 2]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by stevereno:
my mom thinks im weird but she respects me for it. i dont really have any problems exsept when i compulsively talk about horror movies and freak my friend out

SHIVER ME TIMBERS</font>

Ahh steve, I wanna have a friend that likes horror movies as much as we do...
I LOVE U SCHMOES!!!!

[The Claw]

No one cares, in fact no one knows other then my family and you guys(I LOVE YOU GUYS) so know one calls me weird or sick, but blah.

[The Claw]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Spider-man 2:
Ahh steve, I wanna have a friend that likes horror movies as much as we do...
I LOVE U SCHMOES!!!!</font>

and we love you(in a NON sexual way)

[Klownzilla]

I'm sorta like the Herbert West character at school, only knowing as much as horror movies than bringing the dead back to life. My friend Howard is like Dan Cain. With my letting him borrow horror movies(mostly 80's) on DVD, he's getting used to more of the films that I'm into. In time, he will know as much as I do of horror, especially since he's just found out about this site. There are a few students at my school who like older horror movies and my art teacher Mr. Q is a big horror, sci-fi, Godzilla/Gamera, Japan fantasy fan.

[Corpse Candle]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Spider-man 2:
What's wrong?! Last night, I got shited by my dad because he saw a scene of Candyman 3...and it hit the fan!!
My cousin, some friends and now my dad!

I know this has happened to some of you...what do you think!?</font>

Do not worry friend for like us you are a NIGHTBREED and your sanctuary is here in MIDEON.
The dark is always present it is just hiding beneath the light.
Also whats wrong with horror I get more freaked out when I watch the news.
Don't worry spidey were there for you.

[Sam Hain]

never had this problem.ive also never cared what anyone thinks about what i do or about who i am.

[bowieee]

Yup I know the feeling. My friends wont like any movie if it doesnt have Jay and silent bob in it or mike myers. (Saturday night lives mike myers). When i went to the comic con i was gabbing with my friend about how excited I was to meet the tall man. he just looked at me like big whooping deal. Ha their missing out. oh and all you schmoes R-O-C-K!

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[Evil Spike]

My mom blames everything i do wrong on those "nasty movies". But then again, my dad's like "Hey, wanna go see the new Halloween?"

[Antonio]

As you all know, I'm an English teacher, and I've been labeled a "heretic" (as I have taught in several Catholic schools), since I read R.L. Stine novels and short stories to my students! Go figure, since those particular titles are aimed at teens! There is such a lynch-mob mentality out there in the world, its a wonder that we're all still alive and kicking!

[Sam Hain]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Antonio:
As you all know, I'm an English teacher, and I've been labeled a "heretic" (as I have taught in several Catholic schools), since I read R.L. Stine novels and short stories to my students! Go figure, since those particular titles are aimed at teens! There is such a lynch-mob mentality out there in the world, its a wonder that we're all still alive and kicking!</font>


i know exactly what youre talkin about.i live in "the bible belt".open-minded people are some-what frowned upon around here.

[mjg 15]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Antonio:
As you all know, I'm an English teacher, and I've been labeled a "heretic" (as I have taught in several Catholic schools), since I read R.L. Stine novels and short stories to my students! Go figure, since those particular titles are aimed at teens! There is such a lynch-mob mentality out there in the world, its a wonder that we're all still alive and kicking!</font>

I go to a catholic high school( I'm not Catholic, but my parents prefered if I went there instead of public school) and I once got sent to the principal's office because I suggested our English class read I Know What You Did Last Summer. The principal(a nice guy) didn't care but I did get a reprimand from the teacher for advocating violent subject matter in school(her exact words by the way). Now if she would have actually read or done any research on the book she would have learned that it's more of a morality tale of the mistakes people can make and how it haunts them(something I think applies to everyone not just teenagers), but instead she chose to be a close minded bitch. Needless to say I switched English classes a week later.

PS - Antonio, why can't I have you for an English teacher?!!

[BurtonsBat]

my mom says it's evil, she hates for 1 minute and then doesn't care the 2nd. She's kinda 2 faces like that.

[Romero&Juliet]

Cool!! Antionio, had no IDEA you were an english teacher!! lol, guess I should start proofreading my posts, eh?? http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif (SORRY!)

having Antonio as an English teacher would verrrrrry cool!!

***Editing my Previous statement about Healey, my evil lit. teacher......she's probably listening right now..****

I do get alot of sh*t for being a horror movie fan, but what's even worse is that they think its HILARIOUS that I spend so much time talking to you guys!! http://www.joblo.com/ubb/mad.gif


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[BILL FIEND]

I get this shit all the time from everyone including my family and my friends.....my friends watch horror movies once in a while but they think its a little weird that i watch them constantly....well i dont give a shit what anyone thinks...i just wish i had more friends that were into horror movies

[Jason Voorhees]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sam Hain:

i know exactly what youre talkin about.i live in "the bible belt".open-minded people are some-what frowned upon around here.

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Indeed... Damn their close minded totalitarian bullshit!

You know, It sound like hypocritical cognitive dissonance to me Antonio, They love pushing the Bible on children, which is infinitely more violent and terrifying than ANYTHING R.L. Stein ever wrote....

I love schmoes as well http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif.


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[Psychocandy]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by mjg 15:
I go to a catholic high school( I'm not Catholic, but my parents prefered if I went there instead of public school) and I once got sent to the principal's office because I suggested our English class read I Know What You Did Last Summer. The principal(a nice guy) didn't care but I did get a reprimand from the teacher for advocating violent subject matter in school(her exact words by the way). Now if she would have actually read or done any research on the book she would have learned that it's more of a morality tale of the mistakes people can make and how it haunts them(something I think applies to everyone not just teenagers), but instead she chose to be a close minded bitch. Needless to say I switched English classes a week later.

PS - Antonio, why can't I have you for an English teacher?!!

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You should have asked your English teacher if he/she had ever read Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus or Macbeth. Titus Andronicus especially is more violent than many of the horror novels i've read. Unremittingly brutal stuff.

I hate how many schools frown upon the horror genre as being unworthy of attention. I'm not suggesting that the books they do make you read are bad. I read The Catcher In The Rye and To Kill A Mockingbird while at school and they both remain two of the best books i've ever read. I am thankful. But I think that the best books of Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson are equally worthy of praise and Stephen King's name is worthy of mention in the same breath as many American literary greats.

As for being called sick for liking horror movies. I've never been called sick but my colleagues at work think i'm a little odd. Nothing wrong there. I'm happy being a little odd. At least they don't think i'm boring.

[spacemonkey]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Antonio:
As you all know, I'm an English teacher, and I've been labeled a "heretic" (as I have taught in several Catholic schools), since I read R.L. Stine novels and short stories to my students! Go figure, since those particular titles are aimed at teens! There is such a lynch-mob mentality out there in the world, its a wonder that we're all still alive and kicking!</font>

Hey Antonio! Im on my second year in college, studying to be an English teacher myself! Why dont sudgest your students to read Edipus Rex? Heh, theres some fine reading for your catholic students... http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Anyhows most of my coworkers think Im really messed up in the head for watching so many horror movies...but this is weird; my Boss Loves em! So its cool that I get to talk "Halloween Resurrection" and "Jason X" with somebody that shares the same excitement. He even loves Evil Dead!
So it IS cool to have other people who appreciate horror as much as we do. It would be interesting for all schmoes to meet somewhere.. http://www.joblo.com/ubb/biggrin.gif


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[Antonio]

Thanks for the votes of confidence, dudes.

As for the Lois Duncan novel "I Know What you Did Last Summer", the actual revenge scheme is played out very opposite from the movie bloodbath, plus the hit-and-run victim was different (and way more poignant in the novel), as were the suspects.

Some of my 6th graders this past week (we started early this year) are reading I KNOW... and KILLING MR. GRIFFIN and a few of the R.L. Stine novels for the Accelerated Reader program. So there is hope. Duncan's novels are morality tales, and have meaning, depth and fleshed-out characters. Stine's are pure fun.

The horror novels I read in the early 80's were way more graphic (including mucho violence, gore and sexual perversities) than any of the literature my students (all teens and tweens) read nowadays.

As for the works of Shakespeare everyone here mentioned (as well as Poe)...you are all totally right. Those sagas are way more violent and perverse than the likes of Stine and Duncan (and other modern-day horror authors). I mean, come on! ROMEO & JULIET is a glorified teen suicide story!

[joelc]

I am not tired of being called sick, cause following the regulated vision of a purist society is not my thing, I am sick and that's what they say. As Morbid Angel put it, blessed are the sick. There is no shame to have, I am a nihilistic character, nothing may make me range within the thin boundary of the so-called sane people.

Horror movies follow a particular path of living I have instigated throughtout my everyday life. I don't care others think it's wrong, it's one of the few genre in cinema that keeps a normal evolution, while the rest of the cinema just keep on doing the same garbage over and over again.

Hope I don't need to mention to you I am not in the same kind of mainstream horror cinema as you here.

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[countchocula]

I wish all of you lived in my neighborhood! NOBODY I know shares my passion for horror. They're hesitant to expand their imaginations. They'd rather take in the latest dramatic comedy. Blech! Who needs lackluster reality when you have vampires, werewolves, and zombies at your fingertips?????

[DeadByDawn]

Nobody doesn't call me sick for watching horror. Nobody really cares here what you watch. BTW, my friends used to think that slashers were the only kind of horror movies, but since I introduced them to my movie collection, they've been very eager to watch more and more horror. One of my friend said that I'm "a walking IMDb". http://www.joblo.com/ubb/smile.gif

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[Cyclonus]

On a related note, exactly which parts of the country do the "bible belt" cover, so I can stay away from these places?

[Boogeyman]

Most of my friends accept that I love horror movies...alot of them like em to but not as much.
My family...they worry sometimes...I dont see whats a big deal. They just ignore me mostly and change the subject when I bring up horror movies, not all the time but...sometimes.
Thats why I love arrowinthehead! YOU GUYS ROCK!

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