Yes as long as you stay on the sidewalk/public property.

Someone should lock this guy in a cage with a lion or some wolves and see how he does when the animal can fight back

No he doesn't see it as a positive if a movie horrifies him

Yea you're like my brother. Everytime he enjoys a horror movie he decides it's because it wasn't a bona fide horror movie. I think some of the movies you're talking about are undeniably horror movies though, even if they're something else too.

I'd encourage you to expand your horizons. There's plenty of horror films that don't rely on jump scares, it's just that there's a handful of very high profile franchises that do (e.g., conjuring, Annabelle).

Because it was outstanding and I disagree with you on both counts

Geez he just asked a question

A ton of them. There's no shortage of well-reviewed horror movies (e.g., 2022 was a banner year - Barbarian, Bones and All, Terrifier 2), but there's a huge segment of the population that just feels this genre isn't for them.

My brother and I go to the movies together all the time, at least twice a month. We've been doing this the last several years. But I go to the movies at least weekly, and usually when I go without him it's to see horror movies. Occasionally I can convince him to give one a chance, but usually that only works if I can play it as a hybrid genre movie (e.g., sci-fi horror) or if he has some other affinity to the IP or the cast or something.

I ask him all the time why he won't join me for these kinds of movies. At first I thought it was the gore, so I offered to only invite him to more cerebral/psychological horror movies. He adamantly insists that's not the problem. Admittedly, at first I didn't really believe him (my bad - in retrospect he was being truthful) so I probed further. His response is always the same.

"I just don't like the idea that they're trying to make me scared. I don't like feeling scared" he says.

I try to explain how it's all about being exhilarated more than scared, how it's thrilling to try to guess what happens next, and ultimately ask him if he truly never gets morbidly curious about fucked up subjects like the things often depicted in horror movies. His answer? No, he genuinely just doesn't get morbidly curious like that. I've kind of poked him on this a few times (again, mea culpa, I should have just took him at his word the first time) and he seems sincere.

So yea, all this is to say I think there's a huge subset of the population for whom horror is off limits. They might acknowledge it's well made, they might have zero moral objections to it, but it's just not for them. They won't watch a horror film unless they have some incentive to (e.g., their little brother drags them to the movies or something). Ultimately, these people don't necessarily dislike the concept of horror movies, but they just have zero attraction to them.

I suspect that a high enough percentage of the Academy is this way to effectively prevent horror movies from becoming serious awards contenders.

On one hand I hope that changes because I like the genre, but on the other hand I don't begrudge people like my brother who avoid it just because it doesn't do anything for them.

Use spoiler tags ffs

Excited for the movie but this is a wonky poster lol his facial expression is kind of bizarre

Everywhere in Stamford is safe. Urby is nice but very expensive. It is roughly equidistant from New Haven and NYC, but just about anywhere in Stamford would be as well. For what it's worth I think you can get a place just as nice for less, but there's nothing wrong with Urby and it's in a pretty stellar location downtown.

This guy's an asshole.

Fine Fettle 2.0

Interesting, thank you!

Maybe not "any violent crime" but yea the overwhelming majority of it

Very safe especially in the Glenbrook area (I lived on Glenbrook rd for two years, now I'm closer to turn of river though)

Went there with my Polish friend once. They definitely are the real deal, they conversed together in fluent Polish and everything.

Do you know which movies??

Yea true. Shame.

I like Mel Gibson.

Hacksaw Ridge is prime post-outburst Gibson. I wouldn't be surprised if he has more big hits eventually.

Hitler was bad.

The Holocaust was bad.

You wouldn't believe what people are willing to pay when they're fleeing certain doom

Where am I supposed to go when I'm stoned and need tacos?!