i hate horror movies, but i have ironically seen a few and watch a couple of youtube channels that cover them. (dead meat, foundflix and, recently, cinema summary.) the three i've actually seen are orphan, the woman in black, and the ring. out of the three, orphan is probably my favorite in hindsight despite not having any supernatural elements. the ring was easily the scariest of the three though (and i made the mistake of seeing all of these movies when i was around 12) and terrified me so badly i had nightmares for upwards of six months and couldn't even sleep in my own room asdfghjk.
in terms of horror movies overall though...
i would say, unironically, the final destination and saw movies, even though both series arguably got progressively worse. i could never sit down and watch any of them as, well, actual movies though. i'm not into gore, and i have this weird thing where seeing people seriously injured makes my body tingle uncomfortably. (like pins and needles, kind of.) that being said, i have a weird morbid curiosity that those movies feed into. even before i saw the kill counts, there were several times i would go on the wiki pages for the movies and read about the traps from saw or the freak deaths in final destination. it's not about the death/gore itself, though, it's about the... method? (and, to a much lesser extent, the brutality.) in the sense that death's kills in FD and jigsaw's traps are both very rube goldberg and wildly out there or implausible. i don't know why, but they intrigue me, as does other media that kills characters in similar ways. it's more... inventive? interesting? than the regular slasher movies that have relatively similar (and often supernatural) antagonists.
which might be why i also liked alice in borderland. didn't watch the actual show, just watched cinema summary tell me how to beat it, but the games in it fascinated me and had that same saw/FD vibe.
