 Thanks for checking out this video as the title for this video will say I just kind of want to talk about horror And why I'm into horror stuff also with this channel. I want to put out more videos having to do with horror I want to put out more videos in general other than just the unboxings. I'm doing which I will still do those the Original BAM box horror BAM box and the snack who? Japanese snack box, and I might end up adding some here there. I might have to drop one for Who knows what reason because things come up, but at the moment. I'm just gonna stick with those three, but you know Leave some comments give me your thoughts on whatever you want But anyway, I want to go more in a horror direction with the channel overall And like I said, I'm not gonna drop the unboxing so won't be fully horror But I want to do more horror videos and that's why I figured this is a good place to start talk about Why am I into horror and then hopefully that gets you if you're watching this into Thinking about why you like horror what your origins are of your interest in horror if you're interested in horror And if you're not, you know, why does it not appeal to you and we can have those Discussions down below which would be fun So well first of all if you like this video, or you like any of the videos that I put out on the channel Please just hit the subscribe for me. I really appreciate that it doesn't take you a whole lot of time You just click it real quick Very painless for you, but it can mean a lot for my channel So I would really appreciate that even if you don't like any of the videos if you wouldn't mind. I don't know But anyway, so for me personally with horror Big big horror fan that's only really happened within the past maybe five to six years that I've gotten Significantly more into horror try to watch tons and tons and tons of horror movies So let's go all the way back when I was a young child because you know, I spent a lot of time thinking about this at first I was just like, oh, I don't know why I got into horror just kind of happened But then I started really thinking about it because my mother at one point was like, why are you into horror films? I don't understand where did this come from no one else in the family's really into horror films And then that got me to thinking and I thought well You know what I was plopped down in front of the TV a good amount Which people around my age if you were born in like the 80s Late 70s and into the 80s, maybe even early 90s You know your parents kind of set you down in front of the TV quite a bit. That was the case with me I was I Although I should Clarify this by saying I also spent a lot of time outside as well It was just when I was inside I was in front of the TV pretty much the whole time when I was inside But I did spend a lot of time playing outside But anyway the shows that that I would watch and then my parents were totally fine with we're like the monsters the Adams family Scooby-Doo, you know stuff like that. That's definitely kid-friendly But it has a lot of horror elements to it like very kid-friendly horror stuff like soft But it's like super imaginative and interesting and I think that's what kind of hooked me at a young age Then as I went on, you know, I got a little less horror stuff into my life Because my parents actually clamped down a lot on what we were watching You know, like we couldn't watch the Simpsons and stuff like that like it was considered to be too bad For us when we were in like middle school or elementary school middle school But once I got into high school, my parents were kind of like alright You're much older now, you know kind of watch what you want and I was like I want to watch the X-Files So X-Files was a was a pretty good jumping-off point for me But even before that when I was in middle school I kind of did the bad thing and I would you know watch horror movies when I wasn't supposed to I would Actually watching where my parents were there, but it'd be like in little clips Like literally I'd be in the main room watching and my mom would be in the kitchen And I just keep the volume low enough and then have that's where that last channel button comes in real handy So you just kind of have that set to something else that your parents would actually believe you were watching and then Watch your horror movie very very low and then when it seems like they're coming towards the room You just last channel like oh, I was just watching the baseball game or I was watching cartoons You know whatever so I would do that so I would get clips of you know little snippets of things like Friday the 13th They're like Nightmare on Elm Street, but it had to be playing on TV So you didn't see anything too horrific So you know it was like horror light in a sense and that really piqued my interest not just because The material was interesting, but it was also that kind of aspect of like who I'm getting away with something I shouldn't be doing which you know as you know when you're a kid you always want to do that Do you I mean I always wanted to kind of do that, but kids these days I don't know if they experienced the same thing, but when I was a kid I was really you know want to get away with some things so that kind of felt that way for me And then as I got older Jumping off of X files because I was really into that and there's obviously a lot of horror in X files even though there's you know sci-fi Mixed in there so went into college and then that's when I started watching a lot more So when I got into college I had a lot of friends who were kind of like oh you haven't seen this movie I haven't seen this like people saying like you haven't seen Robo cop You haven't seen the shining you haven't seen the exorcist You haven't seen just going and it wasn't just horror movies with a lot of movies We didn't watch a whole lot of movies in my with my family when I was growing up and like I said a lot of the stuff was was pretty closely monitored until I got to high school and even then like a lot of times when I was watching television It was with the family So it had to be appropriate for everyone and I had a younger sister so you know So when I'm in college everyone's like you haven't seen this you haven't seen this So that's when I really started getting into movies in general And I just like watch as much as I could trying to get caught up on all the stuff that were considered kind of classics I'm actually still doing that right now I'm in my late 30s and I'm still trying to catch up on stuff because It's a tough balance of like all these movies that you missed from so long ago One's even further back from decades before you were born that you want to check out that are very influential and Supposedly very good. And then all the new films that just keep pouring out that you want to check out So, you know, so anyway in my adulthood my you know middle adulthood at the moment I've kind of really reflected on you know, what I really like about horror at this point and a lot of it has come down to the Imagination I like the imagination of the horror genre quite a bit I feel like of all the genres out there It seems to be the most diverse because there are a lot of sub-genres of horror and there are you know, plenty of sub-genres of other film genres But with horror I feels like I feel like there's tons there are tons of sub-genres, you know, like ghost stories You got the slasher you got torture porn and got giallo, you know all sorts of crazy stuff You know body even like sub-sub-genres like, you know a body horror stuff like Kronenberg does You know crazy whacking stuff like David Lynch, although I don't know if David Lynch is straight-up horror He's more he has some horror elements and what might be considered like horror adjacent Twin Peaks has a decent amount of that type of stuff Mulholland Drive lost highway those types of films I don't think they're straight horror though, but anyway sidetracked So yeah, just the imagination the stories are usually very compelling to me They're usually very original and I feel like other genres like dramas like action films They're usually playing with a lot of the same formulas a lot of the same ideas Everything feels very familiar and with horror there certainly are those ones where they still feel very familiar But it's usually the writers and directors are trying to kind of put their own spin on it So there's something new in there and I just feel like that genre has a lot more Originality and it's significantly more diverse with what's going on in it There's also I'm sure a small part of me that still feels that little bit like I shouldn't be watching this because there are people out There who are just like you like horror films. I don't understand that which I'll talk in another video about my feelings on people who are like I don't like horror and why do you like horror? But you know, but this is my explanation of why I personally like horror I've also found that I've really gotten into the more intellectual side of horror because a lot of times horror films and horror writing and horror artwork all sorts of horror things kind of go with Making social commentary kind of looking at the times we live in right now and the times that were back when they were done and What social anxieties were, you know, what was going wrong in the world what people were upset about? What are problems, you know, usually there's something more than just I want to make a scary movie a lot of times There's some sort of underlying message or even if there's not an intended underlying message a lot of these people who are making the films are doing it while Thinking about what's personal to them, you know, what's scary to them? What is concerning to them? What gives them anxiety? That would translate well to a horror film and that's just one of the cool things the other thing for me is I'm not really a religious person and I feel like I don't know if other people who aren't religious feel the same way as me on this but Having an interest in horror and seeing, you know represented death on like a screen and in books and stuff like that it Puts me a little more at ease because my belief on what happens when you die is it's blackness It's it's not even that actually is it's nothingness. It's the idea of you know, what do you remember from before you were born? That's what it is and that's scary, you know I mean, I wish in a way I wish I had religion in my life for that reason because I feel like it would make things easier to handle But I don't and I don't really think I can change that honestly with the way I think So horror actually kind of helps with that it kind of Makes death and and people's demise a little more familiar to me As opposed to if I wasn't in a horror I it would probably be a lot more shocking of a thing and and more scary for you know Knowing that eventually I'm gonna die because we're all going there But yeah, I mean oh and when I was I got a little bit sidetracked that happens when I just talk about this stuff The the intellectual aspect of it Another thing is I've found some really good writings that kind of break down the meanings in film specifically horror film and and Making comparisons amongst a few of them and I'll throw a few things out there right now Rue Morgue magazine out of Canada. They do a really good job They have a lot of cool intellectual stuff, but they have just like movie reviews and book reviews and all sorts of things That's a really good source. I've been a subscriber to that magazine for about 10 years maybe a little bit longer now and Actually person who is now and just this just happened within the past year Who's now the head editor of Rue Morgue magazine Andrea Subasati along with a published horror author Alexandra West which Andrea Andrea is as well But Alexandra isn't known within Rue Morgue because I don't think she contributes to that but she's written some books The two of them Andrea and Alex do a web a podcast called the faculty of horror and it's from an intellectual standpoint It's very analytical. It's breaking down a lot of the horror tropes and ideas within specific horror films And kind of tying it together and talking about horror in general as well And it's really intellectual and it's really cool and it's just super interesting I would recommend people check out Rue Morgue and check out the faculty of horror. Those are my favorite things, but That's kind of a quick and dirty in a sense of you know My interest in horror and why I'm interested in it, but I'd love to hear everyone else You know if you want to leave a comment down there and say, hey You know my story is kind of similar or mine's totally different or I don't even like horror And then we can talk about why you know Why is it that you don't think you like horror? Because maybe you do because that's another thing is some people kind of feel like they don't But they like movies that have elements in it kind of like like the movie 7 I know plenty people are just like I don't like horror at all and then they're just like I like the movie 7 And it's like there's a lot of horror in 7 so you like some horror, but anyway, let's just start talking Let's geek out about horror stuff bring up specific movies books Whatever I haven't read that many books though. I will say more of a visual person more in the film So anyway, thank you everyone for checking this out once again If you could hook me up with the subscribe that I would much appreciate that Want to get to a point where maybe I can monetize this but That's not like a huge concern I do want to try and throw out more videos here and there and I want to have more focus on horror And let's do it, but thank you and until next time keep it brutal