Yeah, same. As soon as the story involves anything supernatural, I'm not scared anymore, since it can't happen anyway.
Does not mean there cannot be a good story involving supernatural things (far from it, magic can be fantastic--pun not intended--in stories), just that any semblance of "this could happen to me" or "this could be a real story" is gone.
Weird. I'm the opposite. Reality-based horror makes me sad, creates a sense of revulsion or just does nothing. But anything that threatens my sense of reality and I start to get goosebumps.
> since it can't happen anyway
Yes but that's the point. Imagine experiencing something that you know isn't possible. And the more solid your grip on rationality, the harder it would hit you. The harder it would be to accept what your senses were telling you.
I don't know. If "suddenly there are ghosts", then either there's a completely natural explanation for why they aren't actually ghosts but just some sort of smoke-show, at which point it's not supernatural but you're back to "realistic violence"...
... or everything you thought about the world is wrong, including physics. Sure, that would make for a good story, and there are stories like that, but that's not what supernatural stories are usually about. The protagonists in those don't usually break down in an existential crisis consuming the rest of the narrative, they accept the supernatural and "deal with the problem at hand". The story is still about the ghost.
For me, the scariest stories are the ones where you don't actually know if anything supernatural is happening. The Haunting of Hill House, for example.
Does not mean there cannot be a good story involving supernatural things (far from it, magic can be fantastic--pun not intended--in stories), just that any semblance of "this could happen to me" or "this could be a real story" is gone.