people who donât watch horror movies are SO confident that they know everything there is to know about the genre. like itâs okay to not know things. itâs okay if you donât like friday the 13th or whatever. i promise you donât need to make an ass out of yourself on the internet about it
horror is an incredibly diverse genre, because there is potential horror in everything. itâs in nature, itâs in architecture and technology, itâs in human relationships, itâs in folklore, the past, the future, the mundane. there are horror movies from all over the world. it is straight up anti-intellectual to pretend that the handful of B slashers youâve vaguely heard about comprise the totality of what horror has to offer. If youâre just not interested in horror, or if you dislike certain subgenres of horror, then thatâs fine, youâre not obligated to like anything at all. but smugly announcing that you donât like horror because you dislike a handful of VERY specific non-universal tropes is just as stupid as saying that you hate comedy because you donât like adam sandler movies.
this is what I mean by anti-intellectualism btw


















