Prisk said
I don't enjoy horror films either, but I can watch Jennifer's Body. I saw the gore parts of it once, but whenever I re-watch it, I fast forward through all that stuff. I tried to watch 'Deliver us from Evil' the other day, as I enjoy the religious themes, but turns out it was just another exorcism flick with cheap jump-scares. The good thing was that the jump-scares were really predictable, so I could just fast forward through those as well!
I would suggest watching The Conjuring if you enjoy religious themes. It actually made me cry in the end. Not of fear, if that's what you're thinking. It was a really good movie with a fantastic ending and a fantastic plot. I enjoyed it thoroughly and it had like one jump scare, but it wasn't cheap; it was kinda necessary, even if it did scare the complete bejeesus out of me. The rest of the movie was scary, but in a different way than most horror flicks nowadays try to scare their audience. It's intelligent, cleverly composed cinematically (notawordbutwhatever), and the 'scares' (which, let's face it, was the entire movie; it was just one big scare ;_;) was plot-driven. The director actually said that he hates cheap-jump scares and tactics used to get the audience riled up, instead of actually terrified.
Unless, of course, you have problems with the aftermath of watching a scary movie, like I do. I had trouble sleeping for a good while. ._. It's very much a psychological horror, I think that's the term. It's a horror that's very effective and I would call a far cry from being cheap. In terms of religion, it's very much tied to the main character's faith and end very beautifully too with a deep religious subtext. The story could stand on its own without it being scary, to be honest.
