My type 7 friends love horror movies. So my reply would be no to your question on whether enneagram has to do with scary movies.

 

I would imagine some correlation mostly in that I'd expect head types to be most interested in horror movies in the first place because they're most concerned with fear. Not that all head types will be into them OBVIOUSLY (I'd imagine some would avoid greatly) and not that other types might not be into them.

Me, I'm not into them, for me they would scare me indeed but it's mostly that it's not how I want to spend my entertainment time; I don't feel like it would enrich my life, there's things I enjoy more, not sure why I'd spend all that time watching something just so someday in the middle of the night I'll suddenly be terrified.

To be fair I can relish scary things in series I watch, be interested in why they scare me, but it's not something I look for.

Person I know who was most into horror movies was a 6.

 

Do you have any idea of your instincts? That could play into it as well.

 

Yeah I’m a type 9 and I love horror movies as well.


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Type 6 and I’m pretty obsessed with horror in general & horror movies^^

 

Horror is my favourite genre.

 

Love them, almost can't understand why someone wouldn't, somehow the only other person in my family who loves them is my mother (not completely sure of her type, leaning 7w6 sp/sx)
My type 6 stepmother can't stand them, she gets scared and she hates being scared.

Me, I'm not into them, for me they would scare me indeed but it's mostly that it's not how I want to spend my entertainment time; I don't feel like it would enrich my life, there's things I enjoy more, not sure why I'd spend all that time watching something just so someday in the middle of the night I'll suddenly be terrified.

Never really knew how to articulate why I love them so much but this helped me, I just get a lot out of them, they fill my time and space with more than most other kinds of movies and they feel more real to me, like other movies are like just getting a whiff of food or like just having someone describe it and horror is like actually eating it, it's just...more, and it's almost forced on you, that's the essence of it for me I think.
Like I mentioned before how I love it when I love a song so much it feels tangible, horror is like that for me.

And of course I just love being scared for some reason, or at least am drawn to it, one of my favorite games as a little kid was my uncle terrifying me by making creepy shapes with old rags, calling them devils and pretending he's scared too, I was genuinely terrified and confused (because like sometimes he's make things move 'on their own' and I was too little too understand how it worked) but I loved it, or loved just being directly scared by my dad, and watched my first horror movie when I was like 5 and loved it, told everyone about it even though my mom told me not to

That said I don't watch them very often, think it'd drive me insane, usually watch them with my mother or sometimes I just suddenly crave it and then I go watch one or two and I'm aware that they might stay with me for the rest of my life, think that's partly the point.


I type as sp/sx 2w3-9w8-mysterious head fix, don't know if it's type related, think any type can love or hate them but the reasoning why could potentially mean something, to a degree.

 

A lot of 6's that I know enjoy horror movies -- I think they like to feel scared in a safe environment -- to feel that exhilaration.

Myself as an 8 don't have much of an interest in horror movies unless they have a significant message to convey deeper than just cheap scares. Although I can enjoy the art behind a well-constructed horror film that takes its time with building the horror element -- Hitchcock films, some 50's sci-fi horror flicks, and for some reason American Psycho. I thought A Quiet Place was well made too but not a fan of the conclusion.

 

I love horror movies on the rare occasion that they're actually good, but I don't think any other genre just completely misses the mark with the same frequency horror does.

 

I already spend too much time thinking about horrible things that can happen to people (vainly but subconsciously trying to desensitize myself), so horror movies just add to the awfulness in my head and I don't enjoy that. Although I'm generally not interested in the horror genre regardless of content, I'm fine with the movies that are just creepy and not gory. I can even deal with some gore if some type of non-human creature is the antagonist (because animals just doing whatever they do to eat doesn't bother me), but people being tortured, stalked, and murdered by humans is too disturbing to me because it's a real fear/hangup.

 

Personally, I have a love/hate-relationship towards horror. I don't like gore at all, but I love a good unsettling atmosphere, so I can appreciate something more psychological. I have my limits, though. I feel like my disposition is inherently kind of "dark" so it's easy for me to get too psychologically broken down by things like that, so I like something "upbeat" or whatever to not get too stuck in myself.

 

Well, and I like "mysterious" atmospheres in general, but think a good horror is going to have at least some mystery going for it, so there's some crossover there.

 

I (Five) have liked some horror movies, but I need to be in a very specific mood to watch them, and even then I usually lose interest before the movie is over.

On an average day I have no interest in the horror genre per se. I do watch horrible stuff though - holocaust documents etc. But I guess I prefer the horror of the story to be true? (What an awful thing to say, I wish I preferred it the other way round.)