Some games that I have utterly failed to play in any way, despite trying, never getting more than an hour in:
Fatal Frame II
Dead Space (watched friends play it, loved it, couldn't play it)
Alien: Isolation
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 2 remake
Outlast
Condemned

It goes on. I'VE TRIED SO HARD

Some caveats: I did really really love the first Alan Wake game. Many people would consider that a horror game, and they would be right, but for some reason it just never felt or played to me like that. I felt the Twin Peaks of it all really early, and I think I just tapped into that vibe.

Maybe that's boring! Maybe that's wrongheaded, or lacks a sense of adventure, or whatever else. And I can accept that! The world is already pretty stressful for the most part, and I've never had much success "fighting fire with fire" in that way.

In a movie, you're watching. It's a story presented brute force into your psyche. Horror games are also that, but you are a willing participant, taking the actions required so that scary shit happens. And deep deep down I make the basic decision of, "I just wouldn't put myself into the situation."

But I have never once found a way to do this with video games. I've been playing video games for 30+ years now. I've been around the block a few times, it's not like I don't know how video games work, or have some mechanical sense of them. But I think that's also precisely why it's so hard for me.

But I had an incredible time! The evil magic was gone, and a new, fun magic was born. Sure, I'm only human, scary movies will always be creepy of course. But I found a way through the veil and into a place where I could see their machinations, the seams, the technical wizardry.

I just remember saying to myself, "Welp, it's about to be funny in a minute, so just buckle up." "It'll be scary soon." "Oh, I remember this from cable, this'll be funny." I did that through the entire movie, and I came out of the other side with my shit fucked all the way up.

I was 19, my bedroom, pitch black windowless basement, by myself. I had always heard that Evil Dead was hilarious, and I knew it was creepy, but also nutty and funny. I had seen clips on cable, c'mon! So I decide to watch the first Evil Dead, ~scary laughs~!

I used to have huge problems with horror movies, but I slowly but surely cleared that hurdle in my teens. I vividly remember when I first felt that I had made it, that no other movie could hurt me.

One thing though
I keep seeing sites and pages say he "invented the romcom," with When Harry Met Sally. This isn't a dig to that movie, huge respect and love all around, but the romcom was nearly 60 years old when it came out. It invented a new kind of romcom, no question, but not romcoms full stop.