You're not alone. I don't do horror scarier than Sleepy Hollow, with the exception of the Evil Dead and Shaun of the Dead films, because they are comedy-horror.
I saw Alien once. Never again. Ditto for The Shining.
I thought "The Shining" was pretty boring (I had the same reaction to "The Exorcist"), but part of what's weird about this is how idiosyncratic being scared is; I've had people react with incredulity that I was scared by "An American Werewolf in London," of all films.
Big ups for "Shaun of the Dead," though, especially the first half.
It's possible that in both cases I wasn't able to put aside my horror-film anxiety entirely. It's been years since I saw "The Exorcist," but there were elements of "The Shining" that I really liked; the problem is that I didn't really care for either of the principal actors all that much.
Being a big fan of horror films myself, I've never ever understood the appeal of "The Shining." I agree, it's incredibly boring and everything is so obvious. To me, that feeling you hate when you watch horror movies -- being tense and uncomfortable and nervous and all the rest -- is what I look for, and if a horror film is done right, that's the feeling it should give viewers (at least in that type of horror film of which "The Shining hopes to be a part of). "The Shining" never does that. When I've watched it I feel like Stanley Kubrick is there going, "Ooh, look -- isn't this scary? ARen't you scared? Oh look, this is really, really creepy -- scary, isn't it?" and that's not scary. I think he tried to make a horror movie without knowing what a horror movie is.
I saw Alien once. Never again.
Ditto for The Shining.
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Big ups for "Shaun of the Dead," though, especially the first half.
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