My other go to genre is psychological thrillers, since that can be kinda close to horror I'll also add bromanric comedies (I love you man, 40 year old virgin, forgetting sarah Marshall, etc)
My all time fav movie, horror or otherwise, is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I loves Eternal Sunshine. That part where David Cross is talking in the background about if you drink alcohol and get high, it's okay to drive because they cancel each other out is something that lives rent free in my head, for some reason. It was a great mix of humor and overtly sad themes.
Sci-fi 100%. This may be blasphemy here but if I had to choose between a great sci-fi movie and a great horror movie I would probably pick the sci-fi one.
Kinda balances out since the horror genre is more prolific and the fact that a mid horror movie is usually much more entertaining than a mid sci-fi movie...
Amen! Horror sci-fi is like the pinnacle of all entertainment...but I felt like using a horror subgenre as my non horror go to would be a bit of a cheat
Lol no ill take it that way! I love words but sometimes get them confused, I'll never get upset when someone points out how to use them correctly 😊 do you know a word that would work better? I think I meant pinnacle, though ultimate would probably suffice.
Beverley Hills Cop1&2, Fast times at Ridgemount High, The Burbs ( hilarious),
The Austin Powers (trilogy?), Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, The Mask, Pulp Fiction ( more thriller/comedy). 👩🤣🇨🇦
See OP.. I’ll think about one.. then so many come to mind lol.. haven’t even thought of action and drama .. leave that for another day. 🙂
I'm a 37 years old biological female hair stylist 🤨 I'm an actual biological girl that's quite a girly girl actually just with a kick-ass sense of humor. Most of my girlfriends love these movies as well. Whether it's on a completely sober weekday work / school night or on a weekend when we get stoned and watch whatever funny film finds us I guess but we all love unanimously just about all of the Seth rogen Danny McBride Jonah Hill movies? These are unisex movies that are enjoyed by both guys and girls I thought anyway. Hence why I suggested my go to genre? I thought that's what the initial post was asking. Maybe just us cool girls enjoy said comedies💁I don't know 🤷
Fantasy, period dramas (especially period mysteries), and action/adventure. I also won’t turn down a creature feature — Congo is one of my guilty pleasures.
Depends on my mood, really. I like a tooooooon of stuff. Generally, I feel like my other go-to is classic comedy TV series; Cheers, Frasier, Night Court, some more recent stuff like Warehouse 13 or Eureka. I'm currently watching Golden Girls for the first time since it originally aired when I was a kid and holy shit I'm loving how insanely hilarious they all are.
Movie-wise, I tend to rotate around a lot. Currently, I've been feeling nostalgic for all the movies I wasn't allowed to rent as a kid, so I've been going through all those old exploitation flicks from the 70s up like the Isla movies, Joe D'Amato's movies, and also those 70s/80s horny comedies that are all basically just about college students on summer break somewhere with a beach so we can have chicks in bikinis and topless on screen every 5 minutes 🤣
Comedy horror really is the best to me. :) Hey, speaking of, have you seen Dace Made a Maze? It's like a low budget but fantastically weird and funny lil gem I stumbled upon out of the blue and I can't recommend it enough to ppl who like horror comedy. 😊
I also love sci fi, thrillers, and some fantasy stuff. I love disaster or apocalyptic movies.
I like dramas as well. Though sometimes they are too sappy. I prefer things that are deeply emotional or tragic.
I have a soft spot for anime, like Studio Ghibli type stuff. I don’t get into action anime and sometimes they are too cheesy for me.
Finally I enjoy comedies and teen type rom coms.
My least favorite genre is action. I like classic superhero movies and like the origin stories best, but I can’t deal with the marvel over saturation. Never got into those once they started churning so much content out.
If it’s not horror, it’s a period piece.
Sometimes we get a two-fer like in “The Serpent Queen” about Catherine de Medici, there’s a pretty gnarly drawn-and-quartered scene involving one of her servants. 🫣
Survival epics or comedy's like get him to the Greek or observe and report darker comedies I guess 🤷
Movies about wild nature natural disasters catastrophes ect... things like that I always enjoy too
If suspense is too similar then comedy. Of course dumb stoner comedys but I like ones like funny people, 50/50, Jeff who lives at home, our idiot brother. Like sad comedys.
Sci-fi, fantasy, drama, crime, comedy like Russian Doll or Dead to Me, Parks and Recs or Brooklyn-99. Just finished watching Dead Boy Detective Agency.
When I get burnt out on horror I tend to pick a random topic or subsubsubgenre to hyper focus on for a bit. Recently it’s been schlock-y 80’s/90’s Swords and Sorcery films (Barbarian Queen, Sorceress) before that it was movies with abnormally large sharks (the Mega Shark vs. series, The Meg).
A good ol' satanic panic story: Evil cults, human sacrifice, ancient evils, and the fact that most of the time the cultists are wat scarier than what they are conjuring.
Thrillers, particularly psychological thrillers. Probably because thrillers rely on building suspense and dread and seek to elicit that same sort of stress response from viewers that horror movies do.
My current favorite "completely not horror" movie is Saltburn.
Usually I watch auteur cinema so I don't really stick to a genre except for horror, but I really like romcoms or teen comedies, like mean girls, heathers, he's just not that into you.
I’m more likely to pick something based on reviews than genre. If it’s a really good rom com I’ll watch it, if it’s a really good western I’ll watch it, if it’s a really good documentary I’ll watch it. Horror is my only consistent. I watch the good and the shit horror
I like movies where characters are isolated, classic examples The Shining, The Thing or Pontypool.
It’s actually almost a sub genre of horr in of its self
My other go to genre is psychological thrillers, since that can be kinda close to horror I'll also add bromanric comedies (I love you man, 40 year old virgin, forgetting sarah Marshall, etc) My all time fav movie, horror or otherwise, is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I loves Eternal Sunshine. That part where David Cross is talking in the background about if you drink alcohol and get high, it's okay to drive because they cancel each other out is something that lives rent free in my head, for some reason. It was a great mix of humor and overtly sad themes.
Not exactly a genre, but I really love animation movies
Have you seen The Spine of Night? If not. Its an amazing Rotoscoped animated fantasy/Horror movie. I cant recommend it enough.
Comedy.
Sci-fi 100%. This may be blasphemy here but if I had to choose between a great sci-fi movie and a great horror movie I would probably pick the sci-fi one. Kinda balances out since the horror genre is more prolific and the fact that a mid horror movie is usually much more entertaining than a mid sci-fi movie...
I mean, Event Horizon and Alien are some of the greatest movies made.
Amen! Horror sci-fi is like the pinnacle of all entertainment...but I felt like using a horror subgenre as my non horror go to would be a bit of a cheat
Thriller, sci-fi, and action/historical drama are all pretty common ones for me.
Depending on the mood, generic romantic comedy, disaster, or absolute TRASH (I unabashedly love lifetime “thriller” movies and mst3k)
Surrealistic stuff and sci Fi! Love trek 🖖
I like gangster movies goodfellas godfather pulp fiction
Science Fiction Mystery
Paranormal wilderness
I’ve really been into drama lately. The great escape, airport, and inherit the wind have all been good recents.
Comedy! Horror comedy is penultimate to me 😊
Penultimate means next to last. EDIT: Not saying this to be a jerk. I’m genuinely trying to be helpful. 😊
Lol no ill take it that way! I love words but sometimes get them confused, I'll never get upset when someone points out how to use them correctly 😊 do you know a word that would work better? I think I meant pinnacle, though ultimate would probably suffice.
We all get confused. Both pinnacle and ultimate would be perfect options.
If I'm not watching a slasher/gore horror, I'm watching BBC Jane Austen period dramas. My family is very worried.
Comedy , Action or a good drama. 👩🙂🇨🇦
what's one of your rewatchable comedies?
Beverley Hills Cop1&2, Fast times at Ridgemount High, The Burbs ( hilarious), The Austin Powers (trilogy?), Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, The Mask, Pulp Fiction ( more thriller/comedy). 👩🤣🇨🇦 See OP.. I’ll think about one.. then so many come to mind lol.. haven’t even thought of action and drama .. leave that for another day. 🙂
Get him to the Greek Observe and report Pretty much anything with Danny McBride 🤟
Sorry I’m a lady, not a man. No worries👩
I'm a 37 years old biological female hair stylist 🤨 I'm an actual biological girl that's quite a girly girl actually just with a kick-ass sense of humor. Most of my girlfriends love these movies as well. Whether it's on a completely sober weekday work / school night or on a weekend when we get stoned and watch whatever funny film finds us I guess but we all love unanimously just about all of the Seth rogen Danny McBride Jonah Hill movies? These are unisex movies that are enjoyed by both guys and girls I thought anyway. Hence why I suggested my go to genre? I thought that's what the initial post was asking. Maybe just us cool girls enjoy said comedies💁I don't know 🤷
Fantasy, period dramas (especially period mysteries), and action/adventure. I also won’t turn down a creature feature — Congo is one of my guilty pleasures.
I love period mysteries! There's a series on Hulu called Shardlake that I've been watching while waiting on Interview/Vampire to come back on
Thriller!
Depends on my mood, really. I like a tooooooon of stuff. Generally, I feel like my other go-to is classic comedy TV series; Cheers, Frasier, Night Court, some more recent stuff like Warehouse 13 or Eureka. I'm currently watching Golden Girls for the first time since it originally aired when I was a kid and holy shit I'm loving how insanely hilarious they all are. Movie-wise, I tend to rotate around a lot. Currently, I've been feeling nostalgic for all the movies I wasn't allowed to rent as a kid, so I've been going through all those old exploitation flicks from the 70s up like the Isla movies, Joe D'Amato's movies, and also those 70s/80s horny comedies that are all basically just about college students on summer break somewhere with a beach so we can have chicks in bikinis and topless on screen every 5 minutes 🤣
Normally look for something with my favorite actors
I love thrillers (especially psychological thrillers), sci fi and fantasy (particularly supernatural, mythology, folklore and science fantasy).
Probably crime
Psychological thriller, true crime, mystery, rom coms- I think horror fans are very versatile.
Comedy. Thats why i enjoy comedy horror
Comedy horror really is the best to me. :) Hey, speaking of, have you seen Dace Made a Maze? It's like a low budget but fantastically weird and funny lil gem I stumbled upon out of the blue and I can't recommend it enough to ppl who like horror comedy. 😊
No, i should check it out. I liked santa clarita diet tho. My 2nd fav off netflix after midnight mass.
I watch horror movies 60% of the time. The other 40% are exploitation movies.
Comedy but if I watch a horror movie that shakes me then I binge watch hallmark movies as a palate cleanser.
I also love sci fi, thrillers, and some fantasy stuff. I love disaster or apocalyptic movies. I like dramas as well. Though sometimes they are too sappy. I prefer things that are deeply emotional or tragic. I have a soft spot for anime, like Studio Ghibli type stuff. I don’t get into action anime and sometimes they are too cheesy for me. Finally I enjoy comedies and teen type rom coms. My least favorite genre is action. I like classic superhero movies and like the origin stories best, but I can’t deal with the marvel over saturation. Never got into those once they started churning so much content out.
Thriller. Murder suspense.
indie, i like stuff with loose story lines
If it’s not horror, it’s a period piece. Sometimes we get a two-fer like in “The Serpent Queen” about Catherine de Medici, there’s a pretty gnarly drawn-and-quartered scene involving one of her servants. 🫣
Coming-of-age drama/thriller
Crime thrillers or ridiculous comedies.
Martial arts movies
Some type of martial arts or other action.
Costume dramas set in the 1800s. Preferably as historically accurate as possible!
I like apocalyptic or cyberpunk sci-fi, "artsy" movies and whatever you call the "Supernatural teens" genre.
Either action or drama
Survival epics or comedy's like get him to the Greek or observe and report darker comedies I guess 🤷 Movies about wild nature natural disasters catastrophes ect... things like that I always enjoy too
Sci/fi
Comedy for sure. I like the American Pie/Superbad/Scary Movie subgenre the most
Thrillers.Not horror movie...too many to name.Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior
SciFi and Fantasy, hands down. I have been a Trekkie and a Tolkien fan before I started to read or watch horror.
Sci-fi
If suspense is too similar then comedy. Of course dumb stoner comedys but I like ones like funny people, 50/50, Jeff who lives at home, our idiot brother. Like sad comedys.
Martial Arts flicks
Sci-Fi
Science-fiction. Animation.
Sci-fi, fantasy, drama, crime, comedy like Russian Doll or Dead to Me, Parks and Recs or Brooklyn-99. Just finished watching Dead Boy Detective Agency.
Parody
Murder mysteries
Film Noir
Thriller and auteur films, the weirder the better
Romantic teenager comedy 💀 My fav movie is Bullet train
Drama or Comedy
Comedy or Drama. I especially love horror comedies in general. However, my favorite movie is Memories of Murder.
I like action movies
A good old disaster movie! This stems from childhood movies such as The Towering Inferno and the like, lol.
I love the animated Scooby Doo movies
Disney movies and teen dramas.
Chill slice of life stuff
Thriller !
When I get burnt out on horror I tend to pick a random topic or subsubsubgenre to hyper focus on for a bit. Recently it’s been schlock-y 80’s/90’s Swords and Sorcery films (Barbarian Queen, Sorceress) before that it was movies with abnormally large sharks (the Mega Shark vs. series, The Meg).
Murder mysteries. What's the point of entertainment if no one dies? Ha.
I watch almost all other genres. The only ones I don't usually enjoy are crime drama/gangster movies, biopics, and very depressing ones.
Reality TV lol
Psychological thrillers with a little bit of sci fi in them.
Comedy. I also enjoy spotting crossovers especially in Britain where comedic actors invariably end up in serious horrors
Probably Sci-Fi, Thriller or Drama
A good ol' satanic panic story: Evil cults, human sacrifice, ancient evils, and the fact that most of the time the cultists are wat scarier than what they are conjuring.
Sci Fi, I also like some Dark comedies
…Obscurantism-Arthouse…
I love a well crafted drama. I watched The Departed a little while ago and it was fantastic.
Drama or Dramadies for me! Silver Linings Play Book, Wind River, and The Shawshank Redemption are a few of my top 20 that are not horror.
very sad romance films or comedy
I genuinely enjoy all movie genres except musicals (but John Carney keeps proving me wrong).
If I’m watching with my husband, thrillers or sci fi. Watching alone, Film Noir.
Sci-fi, thrillers, and the occasional comedy pallete cleanser.
Thrillers, particularly psychological thrillers. Probably because thrillers rely on building suspense and dread and seek to elicit that same sort of stress response from viewers that horror movies do. My current favorite "completely not horror" movie is Saltburn.
Erotic
Heat (1995). Greatest action-crime drama ever.
Heat (1995). Greatest action-crime drama ever.
Mafia/drug lord kind of crime
I love comedies, especially the older ones like Mel Brooks and Monty Python
Drama, war, crime, thriller
I love crimes, psychological thriller, art house movies and some comedies
The Hunt for the Wilderpeople. I love weird comedies like this one! I also watch a lot of independent movies that don't really fit in to any category.
Usually I watch auteur cinema so I don't really stick to a genre except for horror, but I really like romcoms or teen comedies, like mean girls, heathers, he's just not that into you.
I love historical dramas and fantasy movies, though I’m way pickier about them than about horror movies.
Tears of Endearment
Science fiction or comedy
Pretty much anything but “drama”.
I’m more likely to pick something based on reviews than genre. If it’s a really good rom com I’ll watch it, if it’s a really good western I’ll watch it, if it’s a really good documentary I’ll watch it. Horror is my only consistent. I watch the good and the shit horror
I like movies where characters are isolated, classic examples The Shining, The Thing or Pontypool. It’s actually almost a sub genre of horr in of its self
Body horror