about horror movies

since i am doing the passage with you now
i might as well confess....i like horror movies
but i really do not think i have the primeval instincts
stephen king talks about
for me, i think it is more, because i love watching and reading - thrillers
probably due to a very deprived childhood - an overprotective mother who never let
her only daughter out of her sight...

i abhor - the wanton and meaningless killing and gore of friday the 13
and i know what you did last summer
but shows like the uninvited, credo, the others and sixth sense...those with a
plot and a twist - they thrill me no end...

the horror movie that gave me sleepless nights and sent me running to my dad was
the Exorcist....so i was surprised by its ranking on this site...http://www.imdb.com/chart/horror

psycho - which i thought was a brilliant but sick movie is rightfully placed as numero uno...i guess....but exorcist is at 17...they found king kong (horrors of horrors...they consider that a horror movie?..i felt sorry for the giant, rather than fear!), frankenstein and jaws more frightening than the exorcist...? perhaps they were rating the entertainment factor rather than the fear factor...even then...well...different people...different age groups...different genres...different tastes..and as stephen king puts it...different levels of insanity...