What is your threshold for disturbing content?

[BoomerZ]

Made by people that don't understand duck and cover...

[GumshoeComix]

I can handle most horror, so guess my threshold is pretty high.

its when kids getting hurt that I tend to feel not so good.. Even then I can only think of two movies that stick with me on that and that's Mysterious Skin, (AMAZING movie, not a horror! but watch with extreme discretion!) and Split which both gave me PTSD episodes.
And I can't even say i draw the line there cause i watch movies and read comics with those topics all the time. I WRITE a story about it :v !!

Gore on the other hand I have no issue with unless its like, the skeleton from the poltergeist which is a real corpse.

[goatbat]

I think I'm a bit different in tastes to some horror movie watchers as like, Human Centipede First Sequence is fine w/ me but Misery, which is considered to be like mainstream basic horror, makes me a bit sad. It's kinda hard to differentiate why certain horror movies don't really hit barrier between 'disturbed, but interested and inspired' and 'too sad and uncomfortable to enjoy it as an artistic experience.'

Though, I did very much slow down on horror movies some time after quarantining, so I don't actually know for sure if my comfort level now is the same as it was in college.

I did have a s/o who did not like horror stuff at all & was too creeped out by them, but was not sad or bothered at all by fictional characters dying or going through hard times. I think everyone just processes these things differently, which is interesting.

[AxemanRifflord]

I don’t think I’m any more extreme than anyone else here. I remember going from “Oh cool, Tetsuo: The Iron Man is on the third tier of the disturbing movie ice berg. I’ve seen that. Guess I’m officially a horror nerd.” to “Why is Tetsuo: The Iron Man even on here? It’s just stop motion robot dicks taped to guys screaming. That film does not deserve this.”

On the other side of the coin, Invincible. I started reading it when I was in middle school and followed it until it’s conclusion while it was still being published. It’s one of my favorites and I was glad to see it get a burst of attention from the show.

When I first heard someone say “Invincible is a great show, but I can’t recommend it.” I could swear I almost had an aneurism. Until I realized they were referring to the gore.

Oh yeah. I distinctly remember hoping my parents wouldn’t see it when I first got into it. (And then I caught my dad skimming through it and he was chill).

Still, it was humbling to see that this aspect of something I love that I’ve taken for granted is a legitimate issue for people.

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