Why Horror Movies Appeal To Everyone In The World - Steven Shea

International Award-Winning, STEVEN SHEA has been working in the entertainment industry since he was 16 years old. Starting out in the local television market in the Florida Keys where he grew up, he eventually made his way to Orlando where he founded Abyssmal Entertainment in 2002. His first feature film he wrote and directed, “The Night Owl", was distributed globally in the Summer of 2005. In 2008, “Hoodoo For Voodoo”, Steven's 2nd feature he wrote and directed was released on DVD. Steven garnered some awards on the international festival circuit with the horrific short film “2:22” in 2009, which has been distributed through Hulu & FearNet. “Doomsday County” is a horror anthology film that he co-directed and produced that was released worldwide through Troma Inc in 2013. The comedy web series “The Interrogationists” was released in the summer of 2014 through Funny Or Die. His latest feature is the Documentary "Surviving Supercon" that was completed in 2019. Steven had directed over 25 music videos, for such artists as Kitty In A Casket, The Hellfreaks, The Dollyrots, The Attack, The Bloody Jug Band, WhiteQube and The Crazy Carls. As an award winning photographer, Steven has directed and shot such talent as Harrison Ford, Louise Fletcher, Roger Corman, Deepak Chopra, Lin Shaye, Mark McGrath, Denise Richards, Vivica A. Fox, Rick Fox, Juliana Harkavy and many more. He was a Producer on the feature films Last Shift, Rockabilly Zombie Weekend, The Unbroken, Deadly Weekend, Two Days, and Andre the Butcher. As well as Producer for the Disney Channel series Game On!
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[@Guigley]

It's a shame that when people think of the horror genre, they instantly think of slasher films. True horror is so, so much more deep and interesting than that.

[@SOLIDSNAKE.]

Exactly

[@LoveHandle4890]

It’s not even about the scares, but the lessons they teach.

[@chasehedges6775]

💯💯💯

[@nickybjammin7629]

Being done in by their own demise. A lot of people out there could use a really good horror movie the way Society has been behaving and everything people have gotten away with we could use a really-really-really scary movie! With all the good stuff they used to use no shaky camera work and no cgi!. Real puppets and actual splatters, illusion’s that you don’t notice until it moves and it was standing there the whole scene and boom! Got em! The right people use to be the the ones who got it in a good ole fashion horror film 😎😝 Tales from the crypt storys is gotta be in my top three horror stories where the victims got what they wanted. If you can be a movie maker would be like getting revenge on people you’ve witnessed in real life that aren’t thinking about the character they are in the story 😊 help em see the light🤘🏼😝

[@theodorebookeriv6917]

His point about everyone dying one day and relating to a character's pursuit to live was interesting and something that I haven't considered when it comes to why I watch horror films. It makes sense!

[@vaporwave2345]

I'm just there to watch Jason teach wayward teenagers some wholesome family values. 🤗

[@chasehedges6775]

Horror movies are pretty much a genre that is everyone who’s afraid and likes a good scare

[@LoveHandle4890]

Horror is life.🙏

[@chasehedges6775]

Well said, man

[@mhippler]

I feel sad for you dude

[@AggelosKyriou]

A talented man with Rush 2112 T-shirt. A true man of culture!

[@poiluparadis]

Excellent interview.

[@DaimoniusVanThers]

I can't watch horror movies. Horror scenes haunt me to this day and I didn't even watch the brutal ones in my teenage years (The first Final Destination). Horror movies gives me nightmares, make me feel really bad, can't sleep when I randomly remember a disturbing scene. I think my brain/psyche can't distinguish between real or fictional or something like that...

[@filmcourage]

What is your favorite horror movie from the last 20 years?

[@chasehedges6775]

Annihilation(2018)

[@chasehedges6775]

@SubArc Adventures “Darkness rises and light to meet it.” The only good line from that mess of a film.

[@xrayblaster4874]

The Net

[@dennismullarkey6863]

Hereditary

[@phoenixodwyer3810]

Lake mungo

[@viktormonov9397]

Just watched SMILE in theaters, a thrilling experience :)

[@TheCjbowman]

Good interview, but overall kind of makes my soul sad because the trend becomes so obvious.

[@SOLIDSNAKE.]

I like horror that build tension!

[@DDavis-mi2cg]

I hate horror films. Always have even as a kid. I can’t watch blood and gore. I know I’m weird to most people.

[@willduffield7226]

You're not alone in that, buddy. :)

[@GingerPeacenik]

You are entirely normal to me. I can’t imagine anyone who isn’t a sick sadistic psychopath enjoying that stuff.

[@filmcourage]

What is your favorite horror trope from the 1980's?

[@chasehedges6775]

HEERES JOHNNY!

[@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115]

John Carpenter's "The Thing." It blends cosmic horror, sci-fi, thriller.

[@TheCjbowman]

@@chasehedges6775 that's a meme, not a trope 🤣

[@TheCjbowman]

@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 that's a great film, I agree, but not a trope.

[@TheCjbowman]

Ok - since no one else seems to know what a trope is, I'll give the most obvious example: falling down while running away when they're right behind you! 🤪

[@BADOOCHISTUDIOS]

Very cool 😎👌💙

[@IronMan-fe8kv]

please watch or demand KANTARA to be released in your theatre (only) you will thank me for the rest of your life and it is not exaggeration the main actor rishab shetty's acting is at par of heath ledger as joker. #releaseKANTARAworldwide #KANTARAforOSCARS also demand a very good english dub as the screenplay is mesmerising

[@hissatsu4937]

They at least used to. Now a days horror movies are just awful. 2010- to present. WTH happened? Just look at how horrible the new Halloween movie is. And lets now even talk about Jeepers Creepers Reborn. Back in the days horror movies had something really special.

[@leepretorius4869]

The 80’s tropes are Scooby-Doo!

[@nickybjammin7629]

Horror flicks/stories like tales from the Crip make too much sense not to love. Creep show, Ray Bradbury theater, hay y’all Night of the comet is on! It’s a Antenna channel called comet and we’re going through the Haleys comet’s trail this October!! Should be able to see Meteor showers. I love it when the plot twist’s on the people with selfish/bad intentions with Really clever irony (dealt by the story gods) it doesn’t really have to be gruesome with a good twist.

[@litheran69]

When the hell did Michael Myers have a good reason to kill? I hope he meant to say in character reasoning.

[@crazyralph6386]

Yet, these studios don’t have the first clue on how to make them??? It’s no coincidence that Friday the 13th became an iconic franchise, not because of Paramount Pictures distributing it, but because of the financial backers ie the Scuderi bros. who not only believed in the script, but they also understood the genre, and knew EXACTLY what fans expected, being movie theatre owners(and film buffs) themselves. As much as producer Frank Mancuso Jr tried to recapture the magic later on, it still couldn’t compare to the old and gritty style of the Scuderis! These days, it’s just a bunch of corporate Hollyweird execs(who’ve never watched the films) trying to cast the flavour of the day, thinking that muppet will fill seats, and not Jason effing Voorhees!!!! Thanks to greed and lawyers, we won’t have to worry about F13 turning into the next Halloween anyways!

[@guharup]

Because horror movies have a lot of fluids and reminds us of our bodily fluids?

[@EivindSkau]

His comment about him wanting to make a horror movie only with characters like vLoggers and Yogateatchers sounds so dated and lame, dad stuff. And im 40 with two kids. How about making horror movies with none of The interchangble tropes.

[@squirrelattackspidy]

Jason had a point on his machete.

[@Quincy_Morris]

I don’t get horror. Fear isn’t fun. And it’s not fun to see the bad guy win in the end which usually happens.

[@Quincy_Morris]

@SubArc Adventures addition to fear doesn’t sound good.

[@codyburgess5522]

It's unconscious, teaches people to always question their surroundings. Especially spooky surroundings

[@vaporwave2345]

You must be fun living in a sheltered, terrified existence.

[@denzelnatha9075]

Most horror films try to make good horror but forgot to make a good history

[@vaporwave2345]

What the fuck does history have to do with a horror movie?

[@dallassegno]

except for people who don't like horror

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

Maybe there's a space for the slashers and psycho's in horror... going all the way back to Hitchcock's original "Psycho"... BUT too many people (Studio Exec's especially) fail UTTERLY to see what makes it work. They think that a horror film is just another chance to PREACH at the audience for money, passing a "Pseudo-Judgment Day" upon the unsuspecting cast of Characters and condemning them to extraneous and hellish torments through their death rattles to give us (audience) cheap jump scares and fluffy, frequently stupid nonsense... "Seven" did pretty well for a psycho' movie. At least it was UNABASHED about passing judgment and giving a satirical take on society's "sins"... BUT if you want truly disturbing? Start in Anime with Junji Ito, truly graphic BODY horror... The 80's flirted with it through the likes of Hellraiser's Pinhead, still famous, and kept the puzzle box for distraction and mcguffin so we could get our portal to Hell... BUT now, the dehumanizing horror of knowing your enemies are either "former humans" as in "The Last of Us" or are slowly eroding away and stealing outright what makes us human on a genetic level as in the "Alien" franchise. In those scenarios, there's no judgment... there's no pretense of preaching whether it's "How to be safe" or "Punishment for the unrighteous"... It's simple and visceral. "Evolution has no pity for your delicate human nature and condition... adapt or die." AND the few who have the stomach for it, and the skill to pull it together and dole it out well, there's a fortune to be made. I don't care who you are... who you THINK you are... where you're from... what your dubious "cultural norm's" might be... When a necromorph shambles out of the shadows and you recognize the very human uniform hanging in tatters from the figure, you're caught in the realization that if you don't fight... AND WIN... you will suffer that same fate. Undeathly shell... a ghost of your former self... infected... inexorably altered... and shambling out of shadows to torment and destroy any humans that come behind you forever... just the same as the poor bastard who's brain-pan you just opened up like a melon across the floor and wall... ...and you can't stop screaming or crying, even if nobody can hear you in space. How about we bring up sunny subjects like that??? ;o)

[@angryninja]

I hate horror movies

[@findyourgypsy8876]

It's about burned out medullas, generations of people who have destroyed their body's ability to create adrenaline from constant stimulation (music/movies/video games). I worked at a university and the amount of depression and constant need for stimulation was insane. Nothing makes them feel alive so they have to watch porn or horror, or more frequently both to feel anything. People who make horror films are no different than psychiatrists, just legal drug pushers.

[@GingerPeacenik]

No, a lot of us absolutely hate them. Why watch stuff that focuses on the worst in humanity?

[@vaporwave2345]

The worst in humanity would be Twitter and the communist hivemind. Not a fictional monster chasing people around in a movie.

[@rolfknappmann]

Me: I don't like Horror and I think it can be damaging to your psyche. This guy: No, you love them! Me: Okay.

[@gagewesterhouse9558]

What a terrible take. I HATE horror and suspense.

[@chasehedges6775]

Such a pity.

[@vaporwave2345]

Just because you hate something doesn't make it bad. Self-centered much?

[@Quincy_Morris]

If people agree with your villain then you messed up. You can disagree with someone who is “dynamic”

[@codyburgess5522]

Thanos, Joker, Ghostface, Hannibal Lector

[@danielwilliams7161]

I think it works when the villain's motivation is sympathetic but their goal is not. Thanos's motivation was his experience of how overpopulation leads to shortages, starvation, war, suffering, etc. That's sympathetic. His goal to wipe out half the universe is where we start to lose him.

[@Doggieworld3Show]

Gore, screaming, tension, death, misogyny

[@vaporwave2345]

You lost me at "misogyny" you dumbf*ck communist larper.

[@codyburgess5522]

Restart the genre as a whole. It's the only move to make at this point. Remake season is over.

[@vaporwave2345]

How do you 'restart' a genre exactly? Making it woke for Twitter?

[@codyburgess5522]

@@vaporwave2345 Having no crutches and developing new ideas and icons.

[@filmcourage]

What is your favorite horror trope from the 1990's?

[@chasehedges6775]

@SubArc Adventures Man, that trope is kinda tiring