How can you not be scared in a horror movie?

Laugh to yourself in silence obviously and think: This is all fake I wonder what the characters are doing to not laugh

I don't consider having a monologue with the TV as being scared. I consider that a sign of having been captivated to the point of hilariousness.

If you started watching horror movies at the age of 4 (no kidding my first movie was a hilarious depiction of Dracula by the great Klaus Kinski - then a very funny Wes Craven movie that no way seemed to be funny back then- the basketball playing robot girl , and then 3 Hitchcock movies (the birds, psycho and vertigo, then "angel heart" with de niro and rourke in it, then Kubrick's "The Shining," then "misery" and "It" from Stephen King's novels that have the same name) you get used to the surprises and twists from many subgenres of horror films. You can even predict what's gonna happen next.

Then came along the different ones. These Japanese dead girl-wishing-her-body-be-found movies with high level of tension, The Ring, Gothika and many other movies were influenced by this so you got to see that everywhere...

Then came along pervert movies presented in horror subcategories: the human centipede, saw, 8 mm(multi genre), a serbian film... anatomy movies... movies that question human nature, corruption, values, norms, the dark side of the human nature blah blah...

Personally those that can still scare me belong to the last category I told you about.

Except- Hitchcock's "the birds" and movies adapted from Stephen King(not dreamcatcher and movies like that but the 3 I listed above- they still have some weird effect on me.)

Is this question for real? if you don't like scary movies, then don't watch them. If you like being scared, then you should have no trouble watching them. And I LOVE talking to the tv during a cheesy slasher. Don't go alone! Don't go into the woods! Don't answer the phone! Don't investigate if you hear a strange noise! Don't have sex! LOL! There's rules you gotta follow. Haven't you seen Scream?

Nothing wrong with being scared watching horror movie, thats what they are there for. However i havent seen a horror movie in years that scared me. Most horror movies these days is about the gore and not enough about the thrill. Most even have music or sounds or reused plot ids that lets you know something it about to happen. Horror movies these days, dont surprise me since most of the time I can tell when something is going to happen.

there's nothing wrong with being scared!

just cos you don't want to admit it....

but anyway (: - remind yourself that it's just a movie by thinking of things that are going to happen in your life. if you're watching someone get killed just take a breath and remind yourself it's not real and you still have your life to live. another thing is to just focus on something other than the movie screen.

remember it is only a story.

lol scary movies are made for kids...