Why I like horror movies (a retrospective)

Hey, Infinite here, this is my first journal entry.

It seems like I have always liked horror movies since I was very little. I remember watching Jurassic Park 2: Lost World in theaters when I was, I think, around 5 or 7 and clearly remember the T-Rex in the city and it eating the dog. I enjoyed that part of the movie whereas my older brother was afraid of it. But still even when I watched horror movies from time to time I had nightmares of it like any little kid did. I remember watching an episode of Rugrats with the bogeyman under the bed that later turns out to be a shirt. Nonetheless it scared the shit out of me and made me afraid of a monster under my bed. I remember watching the beginning of the shitty Congo movie, which I had forgotten the name until after the Nostalgia Critic reviewed, and having nightmares of what I thought the monster was. I didn't watch it that far and thus did not see the let down. I remember watching Goosebumps and being afraid of it and getting nightmares. So yeah in summary when I was very young I was scared shit-less by the same things that scared other kids my age.
One day I decided to become more courageous, especially when watching horror movies. My strategy to achieving this may seem kinda stupid. I decided to start watching a lot of horror movies especially the ones on the SciFi Channel (now called SyFy). Yes, I now realise that SciFi mainly had bad concept horror movie and badly made movies, but at that time I didn't know. Also, yes, I know watching horror movies to become brave may seem like a stupid idea, but in truth it actually did make me braver. For example whereas I used to have nightmares based on horror movies, and random nightmares, for several or more nights, after I started watching these movies to become braver, if I did have nightmares it would only be based on the horror films I watched and not only that I tended to have it for less than half a night. Also, whereas many of the scare tactics horror movies used to surprise or scared you, did scare me, after I tried becoming braver, I could withstand, expect, and just enjoy these tactics. The reason, I think, that this strategy worked was because:
1. After getting used to all the things that make horror movies scary, they no longer scared me as much if at all.
2. After getting accustomed to the fact that these creatures will never kill me because its impossible for them to exist, or be done in my life.
3. Using the previous two reasons and combining my love of dbz (because the character are far more power than the monsters) and other shows, I'll just for example dream that I was a sayian and annihilate the living or undead snot out of these creatures, thus ending the nightmare. In other words, I used another show, to tell myself in my dreams that these nightmares don't exist.
So yeah, it works...but only if you keep it maintained, if you don't then you be susceptible to the scare tactics again, but the nightmare solution won't. Nowadays, I don't watch nearly as many horror movies as I used to when I was younger thus, I'm yet again susceptible to the scare tactics these movies employ, however the amount nightmares I have, which by the way I barely have and if I do is a clusterfuck 'cause it is random and makes no sense,  hasn't increase but rather decrease because of maturity. Also the strategy doesn't work for every movie. An example of this is Pumpkinhead, which after I watched it, when I was still using the strategy to become braver, I had nightmares of it for several nights, which is one of the reasons I enjoy this movie. Even watching the movie I was scared, just seeing the titular monster move was scary as hell. For those of you who don't know Pumkinhead is an obscure 80's horror movie. Contrary to the name, the titular monster does not have a pumpkin as a head, in fact it does not look remotely like anything you can think of if you never saw the monster. The only discernible reason it called Pumpkinhead is because it was buried in a pumpkin patch.
Here is a link to the imdb webpage for the summary and actors, etc. www.imdb.com/title/tt0095925/
Anyway this was the only horror movie I watched that despite using the method I talked about above had nightmares over several nights. Although I think that method did lessen the duration these nightmares pertaining to this movie, I could only estimate how long it would've been if I never used that method. As a result, I like this movie for its scary ass monster design, and the fact that the monster design was hard to get out of my dreams.
Another movie, that became an favorite of mine was Army of Darkness. Yet again, I watched this Horror comedy (and the best one at that) when I was younger. I love this movie and it became my most favorite movie later on. I loved the comedy, I loved the mood, I liked the story, I like the horror and gore, and most of all I liked Ash Williams played by Bruce Campbell who is my favorite actor. In fact this year, I watched the rest of the movies in the Evil Dead trilogy, and I watched a walkthrough of two Evil Dead games: Fistful of Boomstick, and Regeneration. This is a movie I suggest to everyone that reads this. The movie is highly quoteable and made Bruce Campbell, the most famous B-movie actor.
Here's a link to the imdb webpage    www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/
Another Horror series I love is the Friday the 13th. All I can say about it is this: Jason Voorhees is a psychopathic, homicidal, zombie, manchild who wields a machete and has a hockey mask.
As you can see I like the 80's horror movies the most.
Finally to close: the reason why I like horror films besides the obvious story, gore etc. is the fact that it is a symbol of what I conquered and should continue to conquer. Horror movie have been a part of my life for a long time that I don't know what I'll be without them.