Different Types of People Who "Watch" Horror Movie In the Cinema

Today I decided to bring my horror-movie-watching-level to a whole new level – To watch Annabelle alone. I was pretty excited about it, having high expectations on the movie to find out the origin of the doll, to see what the director would use to surprise us this time. I bought the ticket, and my heart was pumping with excitement. Till I walked into the cinema, I realized that I needed to write this post. To remind people of their courtesy in the cinema. And so, I came up with the “Different Types of People Who Watch Horror Movie In The Cinema”, or any general movies. *inconsiderate people*

1. The Cuckoo Bird

If you watch with a group of friends I believe there will always be one person in the group who wouldn’t stop talking from the start till the end of the horror movie. P.s talking about irrelevant things. I believe this is done so because the person is just too afraid of what’s gonna happen next. In order to cover up of how horrified he is, so he decided to distract others from watching it by talking non-stop about his dilemmas, his family, his pet, his bed…… Till he forgot that he is actually in a cinema, not a coffee shop.

2. The Chair-Kicker

I experienced this just now while I was watching Annabelle, and I don’t know if it’s the unknowing moment when my chair will be kicked that scared me, or the horror movie itself. For every horror scene in the movie, this one particular person will get too scared or excited till he had to tell the whole row in front of him of how he is feeling. I try to persuade myself that he is preparing to be in a fight-or-flight mode, a situation where your body prepares and has adrenaline rush when faced with a threat, maybe he is too into the movie and he wants to flee at the moment he saw horror scenes. Or maybe not. No people like to be kicked throughout the whole movie, so please, be considerate of those who are sitting in front of you. Or choose to sit the most front row, so you can kick how hard you want. I’m pretty sure you wouldn't like it if the person behind you kicks your chair for 2 hours.

3. The Commenter

This one is the one who always has to tell his friends of how fake is the ghost, how unreal it seems, how illogical to happen such things, how he would have design the movie and etc. etc. etc. Actually if you don’t like how the story goes, you may just leave the cinema and get your mind clear of the movie. The others are trying so hard to pay attention and to prepare themselves mentally and psychologically to what is going to happen next in the movie, and imagine someone telling you “ walaoeh so fake one this ghost ”. I would have slapped him so hard.

4. The if-never-get-clear-explanation-never-give-up

This one hmmm. Is the one who never understands the story line. Who has to bug his friend all the time to get a logical explanation to why something has happened. E.g: “Why this demon wants to have her soul ah?” “ Why the lift cannot work ah? ” “ Why she suddenly got demonic signs on her hand ah? ” One logic explanation from me to that would be, this person never actually paid attention to the movie, nor had he observed the tiny details.

5. The Joker

HAHAHAHAHHHA I tell you this one damn funny la. *sarcastic look* This guy would laugh at every horror scene, just to get his almost-pumping-dry-his-blood-out-heart to slow down. In fact, he is the one who was traumatized the most by the movie, so he brushes it off by laughing, so that people would not suspect that he almost fainted at that point. He had to laugh so hard till all the ones in the cinema would give him a medal of how courageous he is to sit through the horror movie by laughing how ridiculous it is.

6. The Screamer

I believe from the title it is obvious to direct to those who scream even on blank screen. This happened just now when the cinema just started dimming the lights and one girl had to yell her lungs off because she thought she was acting in the horror movie. Or rather in another case, I overheard someone telling  their friends to scream together, so that they know they are not the only ones who are scared. They have their buddies to scream with them as well. This is purely annoying.

7. The Curser

Probably you would have heard people cursing FUXX throughout the whole movie. One way of expressing his current emotions, to tell his friends how horrified he is.

8. The Ghost

This is another people who couldn't stand his friends watching the horror movie peacefully and so he decided to scare their souls out. A sudden “ BOOO” or a sudden slap on the hand to his friend and his friend would starting screaming, distracting whoever is watching the movie.

And I had all the 8 types of people in one cinema just now. It’s pathetic to see how people are being so inconsiderate and ignorant of others, only focusing on themselves. I believe in a cinema, there should be pin-dropped silence from the audience, focusing well on the movie instead of behaving at such that would annoy others. In particular, horror movie that I am mentioning. I understand if one might be shocked at some scenes, but there is no need to make such a big fuss about it. If one can’t take it, one may just leave. I believe you know yourself well enough to know if you can sit through a horror movie for 2 hours. Talking, discussing and sharing thoughts about the movie could be done immediately the moment you are out of the cinema, and definitely not when is movie is still going on.

And as for Annabelle, I would have rated it 3/5. No spoilers.