Difference between horror movies and scary movies?

[curiousnorway]

Horror movies are supposed to be scary movies that frightening the audience, so what's the difference between a horror movie and a scary movie then?

I've heard people saying it's a big difference between it. I've seen scary movies before that I thinks could be considered horror movies because of the content, but it's not labeled as it.

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[Anonymous]

Horror movies aren't always scary. people are afraid of different things, personally I'm more scared of psychological thrillers than horror movies, things that can and do really happen. The conjuring doesn't scare me, but misery sure does

[PoliceLivesMatter]

I've never really differentiated the two. Scary movies and horror movies are the same where I live in the US.

[MarthaRose]

Sometimes people confuse Horror movies with Slasher horror movies. Them both are different, but I've never heard someone say scary and horror movies are different.

[curiousnorway]

What is the difference between a horror movie and a slasher movie?

[MarthaRose]

Slasher horror movies are more like Michael Myers, Ghostface, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface and etc. Horror movies are more like the focus on scaring the person. Movies like Conjuring, Sinister, Insidious, Annabelle, and things like that. They're more on the supernatural aspect. You get what I mean?

[curiousnorway]

So slasher is more realistic and meant to scare people, but horror is supernatural?

[MarthaRose]

I see Slasher horror movies for more of a entertainment thing. Horror movies are just more of scaring someone. I get scared by more horror movies than Slasher. Actually, Slasher horror movies don't scare me really.

[JamesDuncan]

The most merciful thing in the world...

[JamesDuncan]

I think is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents

[JamesDuncan]

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

[Pastey_White_Girl]

Scary movies, I think, are more based on "jump scares", horror movies are more based on the feel around the scaring

[alice55]

By the name it make me think that you'll get more scared watching an horror movie than a scary one.

[curiousnorway]

Then I'm glad I've not watched any horror movies. Gravity was a scary enough movie in my book.

[alice55]

I've watched an horror movie when I was a child, it was so scary I made nightmare for 3 years. I think it's one of the scarier movie ><

[curiousnorway]

I remember you told me about it. I struggled in many years too after watching a scary movie named "Gravity", but it was labeled as a sci-fiction thriller and had 11 years age limit, so it wasn't a horror movie by the label.

[alice55]

The movie I watched was like 16 or 18 age limit and I was very young, a but younger than 10 yeas I think. it was even more scary than it was a movie with child around my age who were getting killed.

[curiousnorway]

I watched Gravity when it was released. I thinks it's 3 - 4 years ago. It was 11 that was the age limit and I trusted it too much.

[alice55]

Age limit is a bit useless some people (younger) wouldn't be afraid and other (older) would get afraid. we all have different limit when it come to scary things.

[curiousnorway]

True. But one thing for sure is that it should at least be 15 as age limit and not 11. Since it's psychologically horror in addition to bloody gore scenes. If you googles "Gravity death scene" it comes up.

[alice55]

I prefer not google it, I did it one time and it was scary.
I think in Norway it's like in France about rating, they rate everything low because they want to get more view. In my country I know that majority of people who enjoy horror / scary movie are the middle schooler (they watch them so much) so if they did rate it at 15 they would have lost lot of money.

[curiousnorway]

There's some horror movies in Norway that gets 15 as age limit or higher. Maybe because it's not the same people who gives the age limits. It's more than one person who have that kind of job where they're giving age limits.

[alice55]

Possible but don't they have a list for rating movie? Like what's acceptable and what's not for a movie for 11 years and 15 years old?
I think they have that in my country.

[curiousnorway]

Yes, we've also a list.

[Whatthefluff]

I think maybe horror movies have more anticipation

[Kgreen38]

Anything that evokes fear and terror. So technically, they're one in the same.

[clampfan101]

Horror is a label.
Scary is an opinion.

[Leah4245]

They're the same