As someone who prefers not to watch horror films, but can binge watch a season of Criminal Minds, I’m tracking your historical, philosophical, and personal evolution with horror films.
I’m someone who doesn’t find pleasure in being afraid. In the past, it was due to having lived experiences where my life was literally in danger. And now, it’s a preference born from a soothed nervous system that I’ve been fiercely protecting over the last 12 months.
However, reading your perspective and experience does bring up a new question for this new me: can I leave room for experiencing life if I’m guarding myself from human emotions, such as fear? Where dos the balance live?
That’s not a question to be answered today; but now it has language.
You’re a great writer and this was a compelling read.
Hi Arit, I’m on the opposite end of the spectrum. Loved horror and thriller since I was 13 (probably wasn’t supposed to, but here we are) and always thought it was just my need for adrenaline — or maybe a nervous system that’s always been in flight mode.
Still going strong. Girls’ horror night at my place at least once a month, paused briefly while pregnant, now back in full force.
I think horror is actually the purest escapism — the horror in the news is genuinely scarier than Longlegs. And maybe that’s exactly why you’re less scared now. Real life has raised the baseline. A movie can’t excavate what life already has.
Love your writing, and I deeply relate to being our own Pompeii 😄
As someone who prefers not to watch horror films, but can binge watch a season of Criminal Minds, I’m tracking your historical, philosophical, and personal evolution with horror films.
I’m someone who doesn’t find pleasure in being afraid. In the past, it was due to having lived experiences where my life was literally in danger. And now, it’s a preference born from a soothed nervous system that I’ve been fiercely protecting over the last 12 months.
However, reading your perspective and experience does bring up a new question for this new me: can I leave room for experiencing life if I’m guarding myself from human emotions, such as fear? Where dos the balance live?
That’s not a question to be answered today; but now it has language.
You’re a great writer and this was a compelling read.
I hear ya! Being afraid is a very particular thing to choose to do. And thank you!!
Hi Arit, I’m on the opposite end of the spectrum. Loved horror and thriller since I was 13 (probably wasn’t supposed to, but here we are) and always thought it was just my need for adrenaline — or maybe a nervous system that’s always been in flight mode.
Still going strong. Girls’ horror night at my place at least once a month, paused briefly while pregnant, now back in full force.
I think horror is actually the purest escapism — the horror in the news is genuinely scarier than Longlegs. And maybe that’s exactly why you’re less scared now. Real life has raised the baseline. A movie can’t excavate what life already has.
Love your writing, and I deeply relate to being our own Pompeii 😄
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