I must be "one of those guys" as well ... I've never found horror movies horrifying or scary. Suspenseful though, if they actually have a plot along with all the special effects ... ;p Probably due to a combination of never being scared of the dark and not even aware of the existence of the whole monster-under-the-bed concept as a kid paired with a very early interest in the howdunnit of special effects, stunts, animation, etc. They're all just pretend, after all.
Real life things, on the other hand, can do it ... nearly two decades of cataloguing materials for law enforcement classes exposed me to a lot of stuff that wasn't the run of the mill bookstore "crime section" reading material (we were buying the kind of thing where you sometimes had to sign a contract with the publisher guaranteeing that only police trainees and instructors would have access). And I had an obligation to sign out and read some of it, as I did with all our subject areas taught at the college, so that greater comprehension would make me better at cataloguing it. Forensics, crime scenes, autopsies ... no problem. But the psychology and reasoning of some of the nastier things that walk around in human skins ... that's disturbing. The one book that did keep me from going to sleep for several nights was a transcription of a series of interview tapes with a man in prison for the murder of a pregnant woman and her 2-year-old daughter (he'd also raped the toddler) ... his "I wanted to know what it was like so I did it" description of this and other murders of hitchhikers he also claimed to have committed were just ... well, made me want to disassemble myself and scrub every cell individually (and it wasn't even WHAT he did, horrifying though that was ... it was his attitude to it all)
Another hard core realist! I have to admit though, just from your description, I really sensed that what you had to read in the line of duty would have been far far too much insight into that kind of mind than I would have been comfortable with either. I would probably have nightmares for weeks in your shoes..and look upon my fellow humans differently for a while.
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Real life things, on the other hand, can do it ... nearly two decades of cataloguing materials for law enforcement classes exposed me to a lot of stuff that wasn't the run of the mill bookstore "crime section" reading material (we were buying the kind of thing where you sometimes had to sign a contract with the publisher guaranteeing that only police trainees and instructors would have access). And I had an obligation to sign out and read some of it, as I did with all our subject areas taught at the college, so that greater comprehension would make me better at cataloguing it. Forensics, crime scenes, autopsies ... no problem. But the psychology and reasoning of some of the nastier things that walk around in human skins ... that's disturbing. The one book that did keep me from going to sleep for several nights was a transcription of a series of interview tapes with a man in prison for the murder of a pregnant woman and her 2-year-old daughter (he'd also raped the toddler) ... his "I wanted to know what it was like so I did it" description of this and other murders of hitchhikers he also claimed to have committed were just ... well, made me want to disassemble myself and scrub every cell individually (and it wasn't even WHAT he did, horrifying though that was ... it was his attitude to it all)
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