Thread: What Kind of Halloween Do You Prefer? Adult Horror or Family Friendly Horror?

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I gotta admit, I love "Adult Horror" halloween where it's scary, gorey, blood and bones, zombies and monsters and ghost props that look horrifyingly real, and feeling terrified. I love the horror-genre, but I also admit I'm a pansy, and get scared and haunted easily.

At the same time, I really enjoy "Family Friendly Horror" with fun little spooky ghosts and cookies, sort of almost "disney" type horror, Monster Mash dancing, happy ghost props, with more focus on fun and light-heartedness too.

I love both routes, and I think they both obviously have their times of appropriateness. I always love to mix it up to be honest, where I love watching both Adult Horror movies but also the family-fun stuff, I love doing haunted houses, I love decorations and props that are both really terrifying or fun... Idealy, I'd want a Halloween party with fun family-friendly decorations mixed in with some life-size animated Jason Vorehees and Leatherface, with frosted sugar cookies with happy ghosts on em, with the TV playing an awesome movie that mixes "grusome horror" and "light-heartedness" like Shaun of the Dead to kind of round it all out... That'd be perfect for me.

But if you HAD to choose one, "Adult-Horror" or "Family-Friendly Horror"....which would you choose?

For me, I think as far as Halloween goes as a HOLIDAY, I think I might lean SLIGHTLY towards the "family-friendly" stuff, because I enjoy feeling happy and good more than I enjoy the feeling of being scared, even though I like feeling scared (well, if I'm with the right people in the right situation). The movie, Shaun of the Dead is probably the best example of what I love: Horror but with some Light-Hearted Fun.

But really, it's really hard to decide.

I'd have to say I'm somewhere in between so I can't answer your poll. I love dark and spooky with a sinister edge, but I have no love for slice & dice grotesque. I don't think you have to go completely Casper the friendly ghost to be family friendly either. Lots of room in between.

Don't like the blood,nooses,gore texas chain saw stuff. It always makes me think there are probably sick people who do that stuff for real. Everything else ok!

I don't think that 'adult horror' has to be slasher stuff. In fact, I tend to go for as little blood/gore as I can get away with because i don't find it very scary myself. I prefer dark things moving in the shadows, noises in the dark, and I try to promote the *idea* that something is going to jump out any minute.

I agree with Madame Leota, basically. I voted for "family friendly", though.

I never liked gore or graphic violence in entertainment, it just isn't my cup of tea. I don't go for super-duper cutesy stuff either. I adore Halloween, though.

I had to go with Adult, because nothing chaps my arse more than seeing a horror movie that's rated PG-13 when it should be R rated. They dumb it down, or what should be blood into green goo in order to get that PG-13 to bring in a wider audience which means more money. R rated doesn't necessarily mean gory either. Paranormal Activity isn't gory yet it's R rated for other reasons.

That said, I just enjoyed some Nick movie about werewolves. Something with that Victoria girl. And before that I watched Scary Godmother.

I like both, but mostly, I'll stick with a good R rated flick any day.

Honestly, I love both in the right circumstances. Each one has it's own place and I like different elements of both.....a bloody gory zombie here, a friendly pumpkin face there. It's hard to choose one and stick to it.

Both. Definitely.

Originally Posted by RCIAG

I had to go with Adult, because nothing chaps my arse more than seeing a horror movie that's rated PG-13 when it should be R rated. They dumb it down, or what should be blood into green goo in order to get that PG-13 to bring in a wider audience which means more money. R rated doesn't necessarily mean gory either. Paranormal Activity isn't gory yet it's R rated for other reasons.

That said, I just enjoyed some Nick movie about werewolves. Something with that Victoria girl. And before that I watched Scary Godmother.

I like both, but mostly, I'll stick with a good R rated flick any day.

To be honest I sorta do the same thing depending on the movie. I don't need a horror movie to be rated R, and to be honest I prefer horror movies that don't rely on gore or blood to be scary.... But when there's a movie where it IS appropriate to be gorey, I DO expect or hope for it to be rated R.