My mom is a kind of a normie. She hasn't seen Halloween Kills, but word of mouth has her hating it because of the gore. I showed it to my nephew and then I showed him the new TCM and she went rambling on about she doesn't understand why we like to watch that kind of thing. She doesn't hate horror in general, but she hates the graphic stuff.

I find it hard to trust someone if they can't appreciate graphic violence. Those people weird me out.

I'm friends with this really squeamish guy who I remember telling about The Devil's Rejects after I saw it in the theater. He looked at me like I just told him I wanted to rape his mother. I literally had to convince him that there wasn't something seriously wrong with me. For whatever reason, he watched it out of curiosity later on and was absolutely horrified. Not just by the violence but the whole idea of it all. This guy was so bothered by the graphic nature of this movie, he started training MMA to deal with it and became a pretty good pro fighter. Dude owns a school now. I'm guessing he never got around to seeing 3 From Hell...

LOL, Rob Zombie inspired him to do something with his life. TDR isn't too bad by our standards, but it is pretty intense for something that was mainstream. Both Ho1000C and TDR were among my early horror endeavors and I found both pretty gross when I first saw them. Now, they're like comfort movies to me.

Yes. More than I like. I'm the weird outcast of the family, but considering I'm adopted I don't have anything in common with them anyway lol. I come from a family that thinks anything horror is akin to Satanism.

My parents didn't like horror movies so I didn't get to see many when I was a kid. I couldn't see any in theaters until I was old enough to go to r-rated movies alone. By then it was 1984 or 85 and most of the horror movies were crap. I was all excited to finally be able to go myself and see them but after The Alchemist and Burial Ground I quickly learned it was a waste of time and money. I even apologized to my parents for wasting their money. I missed seeing all the early 80s classics on the big screen, and it was no fun going alone anyway. I didn't have any friends so I don't even know if anyone my age liked horror movies or not. I also remember not being allowed to watch Summer of Fear and Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell on TV when I was in fifth grade. My parents didn't think horror movies were corrupting or evil or anything, they just thought they were boring. They didn't like me watching Saturday morning cartoons either. Huge arguments were had over that.

As far as watching real stuff like snuff films, I'd never want to do that.