Why I despise horror movies!

Hello dear readers, I'm taking over for Sidsel this week (because I'm so lovely) and since I had no idea of what to talk about I've chosen the topic my friend Markus suggested: "Why I hate horror movies!" So here goes. First of all I don't understand why people want to get scared. Seriously, after I watched The Ring (at the age of 13) I've been scared every time I was alone in a dark room. A couple of days afterwards I would jump up from the chair when the phone rang as well... So why this need to be scared of something? I suppose some people get some kind of adrenalin-kick out of it or something but me on the other hand, I just get so scared that I can barely sleep. Once I was at a classmates' birthday party and we watched The Woman in Black (with Daniel Radcliffe, HARRY WHAT ARE YOU DOING), and it was filled with jumpscares I was dying. A girl I didn't know the name of was stroking me on my back when I hit my face at Camilla's shoulder. That is not an amusing evening in my opinion.

Secondly  I don't like the plots, well I mean, I don't like the non-existing plots in many horror movies. Though I haven't seen many horror movies (luckily) but those I've seen didn't have the greatest plots and from what I can tell from my friends that is very common in this genre. So why, why watch them if the plots aren't even well-written?

Thirdly I don't understand how people can be so stupid in these films. Seriously, if you hear a mysterious noise from the dark, cold, old part of the abandoned house you're in, don't go near it, run for God's sake! Try using your brain for once! But no, of course not, they have to see where this noise comes from and BANG then they've been killed by a ghost girl who was drowned in a well years ago. I don't get it, really, I don't. Horror movies are filled with cliché characters who are just plain stupid and we all know that only one or two of the people in the film are going to survive anyway and it's never difficult to guess who - the main character!

No I don't get this genre mostly because it scares the living *beep* out of me but also because they have uncreative and not-surprising plots with dead boring, cliché characters who are most likely going to die anyway... Yep, Sille is out!