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by Anonymous on October 5th, 2009

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Does anyone refuse to watch horror films for moral reasons? Please explain.

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  • by Sir yhvhash on October 5th, 2009

    Sir yhvhash

    My opinion is that being exposed to violence and horror through media makes people less likely to feel horror and shock about real situations - situations that would cause prior generations to take action, are only water cooler conversation today.

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  • by Tom on October 5th, 2009

    Tom

    My former pastor won't watch horror films. He says they glorify the devil and push his agenda. I told him that they are just entertainment, like cartoons, and that he is insecure with his spirituality if he cannot watch a horror film just for fun. Am I wrong?

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  • by Blackberry. on October 5th, 2009

    Blackberry.

    I'm not totally against them, I will watch one occasionally, but I just don't like watching them because there is just something I personally don't like about watching human beings being maimed and slaughtered and tortured. It makes me more sad and weary than entertained, because I know that these events could actually happen and most likely are happening somewhere. Horror films are more different than action films because there is usually a purpose in the action films, it's not just some guy in a basement torturing some helpless person and listening to their screams and pain and anguish.

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  • by Symbeline on October 6th, 2009

    Symbeline

    Not me. They're my passion. I don't care what anyone thinks, whether good or bad, horror rules.

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  • by overeducated on October 5th, 2009

    overeducated

    I never intentionally set out to "boycott" them for that reason, but now that you mention it, my own personal reasons for avoiding them are sort of moral.
    But that's the really mindless teenage horror stuff. I'm not against watching action, or adventure, or even a Quentin Tarantino film which is not so much a film WITH violence as it is ABOUT violence--it makes a statement about violence and our society.
    So brainlessly entertained by someone else's misery--no. But a sincere look at the place violence has in our society, yeh, I watch it.
    Good question.

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