Yep, horror movie wimp here. Been taking that pop culture L since the '90s.

I do this too! And I look up photos from the film as well so I can get a sense of the horror. It def freaks me out but also makes me glad I didn't watch it. 

I have not seen, but have read the wiki pages for:

I have no interest in seeing ANY of these movies, but can't resist the wiki synopses.... 

I do not watch scary movies. Full stop. I don't enjoy being scared or disturbed and no amount of cultural pariah-ness will make me change. I still haven't seen Get Out, A Quiet Place, or The Invisible Man and I never will.

You are not alone!!  I definitely do this for scary movies or even extra violent or graphic ones  - it goes all the way back to when I read "The Exorcist" when I was like 14 and then tried to watch the movie... at Reagan's first demonic eye-roll I turned it off!! I like spooky/scary stories but I don't need to always see the visual.  I have a reputation in  my family for knowing about a lot of movies that I've never seen bc I just like to read about then... glad to know it's not just me :-) 

Every Halloween while living alone, I would watch Bravo’s 100 Scariest Movie Moments, which would show, like, 10 second clips of each movie on the countdown. I also wouldn’t sleep all night afterwards. 

That’s where I first heard about Oldboy, and, even worse, Audition. Now that Bravo no longer runs it, I’m relegated to re-reading all of the films’ wiki pages every Halloween. What’s wrong with me? What’s wrong with us? 

Honestly I wish I just read the wikipedia Midsommar. The plot sucked, the acting sucked, the violence was gratuitous for no other reason than to be edgy. The only good thing was the costume design. Over 2 hours of my life wasted on traumatizing garbage because everyone really liked the flower crowns

There's a new A24 movie hitting theaters this weekend called X and it's a creepy looking slasher flick. The unsettling trailer reminded me of the old school Texas Chainsaw Massacre and that's about all I can tell you because there is no *way* I'm seeing it. 

Don't get me wrong, I love horror movies, but I'm weirdly picky about which ones I think I can endure. Even if I think it looks good, if the trailer or the premise gives me especially bad vibes that I know will translate into me not sleeping for a week, I won't see it. (Case in point: Hereditary, anything French.) 

Instead I do something that is arguably crazier: I read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia. This way I can know whether it's as bad as I imagined, as well as who lives and who dies. Funnily enough, this does not make me less scared! More often than not, reading the plot points freaks me out just as much (if not more) and because I don't actually see how it all unfolds, my imagination will get the best of me.

I don't know why I do this, but I can't stop! Am I alone in this ridiculous decision or are you a horror purist? Better yet, are you a horror wimp who just takes the moviegoing/pop culture L and is perfectly content with that?

Confession: I read the Wikipedia entries of horror movies I'm too scared to see