Horror

I haven't seen a lot of horror, and those I have seen have generally been artsy or intellectual.

I like Kubrick and Lars Von Trier.

The Unborn was one of the first and only conventional (as I recall) horror movies I've seen, but that was 8th grade and PG-13. I also saw It (2017) in 2018.

I watched Silence of the Lambs in college. I think I have a review of that on one of my two blogs. I don't remember loving it, but I don't really remember it.

I've seen The Shining (Kubrick's) a few times. I like it. Lots of Kubrick flirts with horror, even 2001 which is rated G.

Directors like Tarkovsky, Bergman, and Lynch sort of flirt with horror. I love Solaris and Mulholland Drive. Maybe I don't actually know what horror is.

Refn can be very disturbing (e.g. Only God Forgives), but that's probably not horror.

I've been recommended some recent movies like Midsommar and The Lighthouse. I could consider watching those, though I'm not sure why people watch movies to feel horrified. Maybe in these cases they don't. I didn't watch Antichrist to feel horrified.

Growing up I was terrified by many movies. Like Mission Impossible. Definitely not horror, but kept me up multiple nights. No Country for Old Men ruined showers for me for a while. That must have been 7th grade.

At one point I considered whether Synecdoche was sort of psychological horror, which is my favorite movie. But there are many problems with that classification. I guess Anomalisa gets the same conflict.

I'm not sure what to call Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Probably not horror.

I liked Shutter Island, which is one of the closest movies I've seen to horror.

I saw Dogtooth around high school, because the DVD case attracted me at the library. I shut it off fairly quick (my purity complex was strong those days). I think I tried it again after a couple years or something. I'm not sure I finished it that time either. I don't think I hated it or was mortified, but disturbed.

Obviously I haven't seen much horror, since I'm really stretching here, and can count on one or two hands the number of unambiguous horror movies I've seen.