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as an horror movie fan, there is this thing that slightly annoy me with people who don't often watch horror, that as soon the movie is finished there is an immediate need for ranking the scary factor of it, often to say that in the end it wasn't really scary (as they thought it would be). horror to me is interesting because it's a genre misunderstood for a sensation. and it's a very codified genre, in which most movies, even the more artsy experimental ones, heavily rely on characters tropes and cinematographic codes . which is also often why the tasteful film lovers often dislike horror because they associate the their overdone up-cycling of codes and methods as something superficial, generic, that lacks of depth, creativity or reasoning. when codes start being shared by a mass of media it can easily become vulgar. but it's also why i am so fascinated with horror as a genre, in the same way i nurture a singular relationship with gender or language. horror becomes powerful by repeatedly creating senses of familiarity through the uses of codes, then breaking it. which makes it incredibly contextual: an "effective" horror movie mostly is so because of the horror meta or momentum of that time, and audience expectations.