Are kids desensitized to Horror Movies

[Hector]

Actually the movie that gave me the most chills ever was a made-for-TV movie...Trilogy of Terror. The third and last installment is still very chilling...Karen Black being terrorized by a little demonic Zuni hunting doll. I find the last installment of Trilogy of Terror scarier than the Exorcist.

That one and Stephen King's IT are by far the scariest made-for-TV horror movies ever made.

[Hector]

I refuse to watch that movie. Never seen it, don't plan on ever seeing it.
Same goes for the Omen.

Rich

Well...it was terrifying to me as younger audience viewer.

Now it's rather tame for me (still solid but just not with the same intensity as I remembered as a kid)...especially after seeing all the behind the scenes stuff.

The Omen is not scary at all...but all that rapture anti-Christ stuff is very interesting.

[kryptosmaster]

The Exorcist kept me sleeping under the sheets for the next few years after watching it on its first run.

I refuse to watch that movie. Never seen it, don't plan on ever seeing it.
Same goes for the Omen.

Rich

[cjefferys]

Heck, I know of kids who watch those morbid death videos online, executions, shootings, and all that awful stuff...they don't even blink...horror movies are child's play to them.

I find that both sad and scary.

That is very sad and scary. I couldn't even imagine wanting to watch that stuff, and some young people watch them for fun? Real life violence (extreme stuff) makes me sick to the stomach, and I think that should be a normal reaction.

On the other hand, I've always loved horror films, even though they used to scare the crap out of me. But it was fun being scared, plus I knew it was just make believe. I kind of worry about some of the kids growing up today though.

[Hector]

The Exorcist kept me sleeping under the sheets for the next few years after watching it on its first run.

[txteach]

I watched the exorcist at 13 and it scared the hell out me. I think you are right about most kids today.

[Hector]

My dad allowed me to watch horror flicks...heck...we watched them together...lol.

Yes...I used to get scared...but I loved the rush...lol.

[Hector]

Heck, I know of kids who watch those morbid death videos online, executions, shootings, and all that awful stuff...they don't even blink...horror movies are child's play to them.

I find that both sad and scary.

[RG]

I was never allowed to see Horror Movies as a kid ... but I got to see all sorts of violent action movies and War pictures. I couldn't see Friday the 13th But it was nothing for my parents to take me to see Platoon (I was 9 years old) so then when I did see horror movies ... they were funny ... not one bit scarry.

I see my 11 year old niece who loves the Saw movies so sadly yeah kids today are way too desensitized

[kryptosmaster]

Freaking Carrie! Damn movie gave me nightmares for years. My sister still teases me about it. Jaws scared the crap outta me too. I still think twice today about going into a dark pool. I even remember being spooked by the commercial for the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie. I didn't like to be alone in the house when that came on at night. Kids are definitely desensitized. The movies that were scary to us as kids are not very scary today (for the most part). I remember reading that people were terrified of the Karloff Frankenstein movie. Even my Grandma said the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers scared her and she was probably around 30 when that came out.
My 6 year old loves movies like Gremlins, Eight-Legged Freaks while my 13 year-old still covers his face during some movies so it's not all kids but generally I believe the answer is yes.

Rich

[toys2cool]

I think so,it's the same with my nephews.I mean my brothers and I use to watch all the scary movies in the 80's and although we were never scared...some did give us nightmares...But my little nephews walk in my home and first thing they do is run to the Horror Dvd's and they crack up like if nothing

[Adam West]

I was just thinking about this today.

I think I was 13 or 14 and my parents let me stay up one night and watch Carrie on tv (so it was the edited version). I was so scared at the ending scene that I couldn't sleep. I kept waking up thinking a hand was going reach out of the couch and grab me.

My 13 year old watched the tv version and seemed totally unaffected by it. My other son at 6 could watch Jaws and no scare.

I am just wondering if all of the violent video games and things that they see via youtube or even on the movie screen is so different from what we watched and are a bit desensitized to movies that scared the living daylights out of me.