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Horror genre

I was walking to the grocery and the birds made me think of Hitchcock's 1963 film The Birds, and wondered if that added anything to the culture to be able to imagine birds rising up and attacking humans. 

Charitably you could imagine horror as an attempt to challenge you to overcome fears. But what if you don't overcome them and it just adds new ones in, or strengthens old ones?

Maybe teen panic is a subgenre with includes the horrors of sexuality and becoming an adult.

I never had the desire to watch Human Centipede. The South Parks parody "asparagus with cuttlefish" was enough for me. 

I remember as a teen wanting to watch Halloween, but I can't even remember if I saw it. 

The most horrible movie I sat through was called Irreversible, it was a French movie that's denouement was a brutal raping of a pregnant woman by a crazed drug addict criminal. My friend's girlfriend said she grew up watching inappropriate movies with her family, she said it sort of blase, like that helped her cope with terrible movies like this as an adult, but I'm not sure that's exactly what she was saying.

I don't like thrillers either, perhaps another related genre. At this point I like drama with dialogue with character development. 

So there's no movie I rewatch every Halloween, but I bet they make my daughter watch a Hocus Pocus movie at school. Never read the Updike novel, and can't remember the movie either. 

I do like the idea of overcoming fears, though not sure movies actually give you that. 

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