Okay, cool ☺️ I see there are some more on here now, but I’ll give you a few of mine.
TL; DR: The Hellraiser movies scared the piss out of me as a kid, but my curiosity to know more got the better of me, and I ended up really liking it down the road.
I’m a horror fan, but some genres shake me too much. Body horror is one of them, but I knew there were some classics in the category that I was missing. So I gave Hellraiser a shot.
I couldn’t stomach it at first. The opening scene horrified me.
Spoiler
Being ripped apart by hooks was the most visceral experience I had ever seen on-screen at the time.
But, it stayed with me. I thought about the movie more and got curious enough to continue it. My disgust was overtaken by my desire to know more of the story.
I ended up finishing the movie and came away with an interesting thought: yeah, it’s body horror, but it’s also cosmic horror. One of the tropes of cosmic horror is that the entity is beyond our understanding. What was clever about Clive Barker’s story was that it gave you a closer look at what it could be like to experience the unknown at a physical level. It was Lovecraftian, but not in concept. Barker gave it shape.
I ended up binging the original films, reading the books, and watching the reboot. It was off-putting on a physical level, but the execution, the details, the artistry of the stories really impressed me.
Do people normally go back to watch things they don’t like? Seems like a waste of me time, tbh.
Disturbed doesn’t mean don’t like.
I don’t like things that are disturbing.
They can and, in your case, do overlap. Still not the same thing.
Would you like an example to carry on the conversation in good faith?
Sure!
Okay, cool ☺️ I see there are some more on here now, but I’ll give you a few of mine.
TL; DR: The Hellraiser movies scared the piss out of me as a kid, but my curiosity to know more got the better of me, and I ended up really liking it down the road.
I’m a horror fan, but some genres shake me too much. Body horror is one of them, but I knew there were some classics in the category that I was missing. So I gave Hellraiser a shot.
I couldn’t stomach it at first. The opening scene horrified me.
Spoiler
Being ripped apart by hooks was the most visceral experience I had ever seen on-screen at the time.
But, it stayed with me. I thought about the movie more and got curious enough to continue it. My disgust was overtaken by my desire to know more of the story.
I ended up finishing the movie and came away with an interesting thought: yeah, it’s body horror, but it’s also cosmic horror. One of the tropes of cosmic horror is that the entity is beyond our understanding. What was clever about Clive Barker’s story was that it gave you a closer look at what it could be like to experience the unknown at a physical level. It was Lovecraftian, but not in concept. Barker gave it shape.
I ended up binging the original films, reading the books, and watching the reboot. It was off-putting on a physical level, but the execution, the details, the artistry of the stories really impressed me.
People change over time. Some of my favorite pieces of media now are ones I was not a fan of initially.