Best Way to Watch a Horror Film?

[unicorn207]

There's the question now here's my answer, make sure you're tired but not ready for bed, maybe with some friends, and not drunk or stoned because you may not be paying attention and be off having contests instead of watching the film.

[Cyrus]

I prefer to watch them in the dead of night, around one or two in the morning, in a perfectly darkened house.

Even long time horror fans like me can still be spooked in such a setting....

[!MorganOnyx!]

I agree with CYRUS. First time you watch a horror movie it should be in those conditions so you get the right feel for it!
2nd time you watch it should be getting pissed and stoned with ya mates, so you can have a laugh!

[Gore 4 All]

Anything creepy must be watched alone after dark so you can freak yourself out. Gorefests, on the other hand, must be watched in groups. These movies should never be taken too seriously and should make you laugh your ass off with friends, not feel like you are going puke.

[Lindsey]

The best way to watch a horror movie is at night with the lights out. eat popcorn and a ice cold coke. Usually the thing I do after every horror movie I watch, I write a small review for it in a notebook. I have written over 70 reviews for movies. You should try it.

[Brock Landers]

I would say in the middle of the night, with the volume blasting, while stoned AND drunk if possible (to increase paranoia), preferably while naked with a busty dumb blond, in a remote cabin, with strange screaming noises coming out of the basement, the smell of BBQ thick in the air, a nearby lake to skinny-dip in, on October 31st....

[the night watchman]

You forgot the beer enima, dude.

[Brock Landers]

I didn't forget it bra...I just don't like to give away my hard-earned secrets...

[unicorn207]

I'm talking about horror films, not "Beavis and Butthead" or "Office Space."

Also, that's what I mean by the middle or dead of night because when you're close to sleep you're mind is getting more imaginative and so the suspense hits you harder.
In other words you guys think you disagree with me but you actually agree with me and just want to disagree with me to have your two cents.

[The Arrow]

I dont think a right answer exists for this question and everbody is entitiled to their opinion. I dont think anybody is dissagreeing with u Uni for the sakes of dissagreeing. They just have their own thing going on.

Personnaly I watch them in every setting:

Sometimes alone at 4 in the morning coming back from a club drunk off my ass.

Sometimes sober in the morning while I eat breakfast

Sometimes with a bunch of friends with Billy Bong Thornton going around.

Sometimes with a lady friend in the dead of night...then I go out of my way to scare her shitless.

Sometimes all by myself, lying in bed with a cold coke and some greasy nachos.


So many ways to watch them and in my book everybody`s answer is right.

LONG LIVE HORROR!

[unicorn207]

I think its just that most of you watch them for a laugh while I'm sitting there thinking "How could this film be better?" or "What's next?" or "What's the big surprise?"

[Lannay]

I say pitch black with no one home or any where near you and the TV cranked way up. the best is when there is a thunderstorm and you are in a room with all windows. but it has to be alone.

[Sean]

Unless the movie is a comedy, or just really corny, I like complete silence and the darker the better.If it's a film that I care about and take seriously, I don't like any noise or interruption. It deprives you of the true experience. No director of a movie like, say, The Silence Of The Lambs, or Psycho for instance, would want their audience drunk and laughing it up and not paying attention. It's not the way films or anything for that matter are meant to be experienced.

[LAguy]

In my backyard, is a descent sized forest. My yard stretches about 50 yards from the house to the forest. I had my 4 room tent set up, thousands of pillows and blankets, freshly popped Jiffy stovetop popcorn (like the popcorn from scream), a small cooler stuffed with ice and Pepsi, and a 15'' TV with built in VCR all tucked in the back of my yard right in front of the woods with me in the tent alone watching the Blair Witch Project for the first time. Let me say I longed to get back in the house to sleep in my safe cozy bed but dared not to even unzip the tent door to see the evil Blair Witch staring me straight in the face ready to drag me out into the woods and hang me from a tree. I started to watch the movie roughly around 12:30A.M.

If you wonder how I had the TV working. A really really long extension cord.

That is the scariest and dumbest way to watch a horror movie. Especially one based on your surroundings.

[pedro]

Stoned, juiced up on red cordial, no food (distraction). It works good, trust me.

[pizowell]

Drunk off my fucking ASS! /ubb/eek.gif

[Cyclonus]

I've been thinking of watching "From Dusk Till Dawn" drunk; anyone try that?

[countchocula]

I don't really have a special preference as to when or where I watch a horror movie. I just don't want to be bothered.

[ArmyJacket]

at midnight, with all the lights off, surround sound on, and while eating a dominoes pizza with pepperoni and extra cheese. Thats how i watched Blair Witch for the first time, and it scared the bejeezus out of me! especially since just as themovie ended the sun started to rise and i could see the woods outside my house through the window, that kicked ass.

[This message has been edited by ArmyJacket (edited 08-07-2001).]

[Antonio Del Lago]

During the witching hour with all of the lights turned off, a bowl of popcorn (with a lot off butter) and an ice-cold Coke.

If you're watching a camp classic, then the appropriate substance abuse is warranted.