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  • IMO, there are two types of horror films: Terror and Slashers.
    Terror depends on building tension through a story, cinematography & acting- few jump scares and focus on the creature (if there is one) but enough to keep the story moving. Jaws, Aliens, Hereditary, Weapons.

    Slashers are just teenagers in a camp being chased by the bad guy, tripping over everything along the way. They depend on blood, gore and bad decisions. Nightmare on elm street, Halloween, Jason & Scream.

    There are outliers that cross both lines, of course, The Evil Dead was a great, campy slasher. The Crazies was a good zombie slasher with an interesting story. Event Horizon if you account for the Warhammer 40k theory. Momma was a nightmare fueled fever dream of a movie and also deserves a mention.

    I guess, to answer your original question is that I like these movies mainly for the reason I like other movies: an interesting story that isn’t something close to reality, but is feasible…the suspension of reality for a time.






  • Late 80s early 90s I got into the database for our menus & recipes and changed ‘hot dog’ to ‘tibe steak smothered in underwear’ and then promptly forgot about it until one day months later with the storeroom clerk he was printing the monthly menus and inventory, lol and behold I laughed my ass off. He never even noticed because we just printed and filed the paperwork.

    I also point around in areas that were ‘resteicted’ I found the ‘star wars’ game, and I would play it for hours on the midnight shift. Nothing like the old green screen games.

    Insert Willem Dafoe meme Im something of a hacker myself