Videogames Make Better Horror Than Movies?

[Eyedunno]

I haven't been scared by a movie since I was a child. So Clock Tower for the SFC surprised me by actually freaking me out, and it still does, at that. I've never owned a Sony console, so I can't speak for Silent Hill and stuff, but yeah, horror games are scarier.

[MasterMunt]

But it isnt all about being scary, its about the horror.I personally think that The Darkness for ps3 and 360 could have been a very good horror movie, but it is certainly a better horror game! Silent hill again... What was more horrific, the game or the movie? Same goes for resident evil!

[jinqui242]

The Suffering games creeped me out more than any horror movie recently, but I think on the whole, I prefer horror movies to scare me in general.

It's hard to feel scared when you're packing a mass arsenal of weapons or you can just look up the answer to a problem in GameFAQs. Like someone else said, while watching a movie, you have no control except to turn it off, so it's generally scarier.

[mechanicalchildren]

As a horror movie fantatic, I am more entertained by movies, and the fear factor is limited. With games like Resident Evil, Condemned, and others, I actually scream outloud, and can get stressed out. Sometimes if I am trading the controller back and forth, I am releived that I dont have to play that "scary" part of the game.

And I may just be a wuss, but no movie has ever made my stomach drop like when you get your F***IN head Sawed off by a Chainsaw lady in Res Evil 5.

[voorheesda]

Well, i dont know whats wrong with me these days. Movies just aint working on me :S I really enjoy them but its impossible to get scared, but with games... i have a problem with playing the game "condemned: criminal origin" because i get too scared... so i just play it in small doses ;=) So yes i think games deliver horror much better, as said before its personally. I always say that games are like interactive movies.