I have never been big on horror films. As a child I felt I was too afraid of them and as I have gotten older I feel as though I can't really get as absorbed in them as most people seem to. I do not see the appeal to these slasher films and if I do happen to watch one, as soon as the film starts to get scary I think about how everyone is just acting and everything is fake. I'm not the kind of person that has nightmares after seeing a horror film either, my experience is just purely in the moment, unlike my sisters who were always left with bad dreams for weeks after the latest horror film. One movie that has always gotten to me though is Willow. I saw it as a child and many times since, but still retain that completely-scared-to-the-point-where-i-have-to-cover-my-eyes-and-hum feeling. Who knows if maybe the midgets creep me out to no end or if its just the freaky monsters and wolf-dogs, and goblin/monkey things. Even now as I search Google for "Willow monster trolls" and i come across other images from the movie a shiver runs down my spine. As a child, for some reason I would have horrible nightmares about wolves. When I saw this movie the one scene that sticks out to me the most is basically the opening scene when a bunch of black, vicious wolves attack the little peoples' village and one little girl is standing there separated from her mother and father, screaming crying. I was most afraid of this part because I felt that I could relate to it. Probably one of my worst fears is getting separated from my loved ones in a time of crisis so that's why that hit me so hard as a child and still remains with me to this day. I think that movie writers do try to make their films more and more shocking by appealing to what they understand to be the current trend of fear. As we face the war in Project Desert Storm, movies have involved more "Middle-East" looking characters as villains and more soldiers as protagonists. I'm pretty foggy on the trend fear during the 80's when Willow came out, but there was most likely a pattern of mythical creatures and gory (but simple by today's standards) CGI. Although I think that there will always be a rush for teenagers, mostly boys, to see the latest gruesome slasher murder movie; to find out the newest torture method or see every detail on those dismembered bodies. Movies are more and more graphic and to me, that's way more than I'd like to see.