My Kind Of Horror
What I like and don’t like when it comes to the creepiest of genres…
Warning: this post discusses all kinds of general horror themes (as you probably guessed,) as well as briefly mentioning mental health problems
I love horror — films, books, whatever, I am there.
Perhaps that’s a bit stereotypical, given I’m a Queer millennial smol emo child with mental health problems, but I figure being scared of fulfilling stereotypes just gives them more power over me — and stereotypes can shove it, tbh — so here we are! Lol.
I love dark sh**.
Gothic, macabre, and angsty AF? Gimme!
I’m not really one for disgust — the gross side of horror is not my thing.
The part of The Exorcist I look away at is the vomit.
…Ych y fi / …Ew, yuck.
And I’m not a big fan of anything gratuitous
— the Saw films aren’t really for me, no hate to those who love them. It’s just that I get alternately bored and grossed out.
I’m not really on board with full-on, doesn’t-stop, terror — not that many people can produce that effectively (she said, throwing shade all over the horror industry 😎) — or anything that involves…