User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/Horror and the American Family/@comment-9584883-20150128151551

Nice points! Not sure if you have children or not. I do. As a Father and Husband, I can honestly say that it would be the hardest thing in the world to have mine go through some horrible ordeal like any of the above mentioned films/scenarios. Especially something paranormal. Something you can't fight physically. Indeed horror among your own family is something truly terrifying.

I think that's why we find these types of films so scary. I can only imagine how terrifying it would be to be in the zombie appocolypse and have a newborn Son or Daughter you have to protect along with small children and a Wife. That is true terror to me.

As far as films like Texas Chainsaw and 1000 Corpses, I live in Texas. I also live out in the boonies. There are some roads you just don't go down, some houses you just don't go to. Houses that don't have indoor plumbing or electricity. Places you don't want to go! You know there are families out there like those in the above mentioned films. You keep to yourself, they keep to themselves.