MODERN HORROR

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Art_Weingartner

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It appears to me the filmakers are upping the ante continually with gore and brutality.

I remember in 1984 when video nasties were banned. In comparison to today's horrors they were a joke.

The SAW series. I recently watched them all. I think they're great. They're intelligent, not just stalk and slash, but then I love stalk and slash too. HOSTEL. Good Lord...blowtorching a woman's eye purely for torture. And Wrong Turn has some gore...Hills Have Eyes remake too.

How far can we go with pushing taste with the censors?

A censor's guage...is that supposed to go to 9,000 degrees do you think?

 
 
I like horror that doesn't have all the gore in it. Sometimes I think they substitute gore for good writing. Horror is my favorite movie genre, especially late at night when everyone else is asleep.
 
i liked the first movie of SAW, and i like the whole idea.. the creative torture, the gore, everything. nicely made - buuuut, hey, i love being scared, but saw just didnt do anything for me to be honest. well, it did make my stomach turn, cause i actually dont like seeing people being tortured and killed - so blah. imo i think the movies are a little overrated. alteast in my town everyone's like OMGSAW IT THE BEST EVERRRRR..

yeah.

white noise scared the creep out of me. so the movie was a little too long, but stuff like this really interests me, and once again, it goes to show that horror is very personal. i've grown up with tons of gadgets around me (radio/tv/camera equipment) and lets face it - there was a lot of it in this movie.)

has anyone seen THE EYE? (korean of some sorts) - it was a good movie. waayyyy to long and after a while it stopped being scary, but seriously, the first part was so friggin scary!!

 
I'm somehow biased. On the one hand I occasionally "enjoy" (as far as you can talk about enjoying in this case) gory movies. On the other hand I detest Hollywood for putting the gore in every single damn remake they shoot.

The SAW series is good because it doesn't rely on the gore only. Gore is one of many elements in the SAW movies. Hostel on the other hand is totally pointless. It's about the gore and nothing else.

There was a time in my life when this would have attracted me. In your youth when you're trying to cross some borders you might try to check out if you can stand the gore or if it's just too much for you. A little bit like a test of courage.

Being 25 years old now this is no inducement anymore. Hostel was rubbish. A bad movie. And Eli Roth is an extremely bad director, way too overrated.

Still I'm interested in older gore movies. The gore seems more grim and gets more under the skin. I'm talking about some Italian movies from Lucio Fulci ("City of the living dead"), Dario Argento ("Suspiria") and so on. But also about movies like "Men behind the sun", "Salo", "Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood". "Aftermath". This is really sick stuff which doesn't rely on some superficial "poking the eyes out" alone.
 
I read about Men Behind The Sun and I think anyone who watches stuff like that has something wrong with them. A live cat for crying out loud.
 
Hm, I haven't seen that but Takashi Miike is known as a director who has no problem with the depiction of sickness.
 
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LOL, yeah! :D

But it's got to be the mental hospital, right?

After finishing three accounting tests at my university (the last one today) I'm ready to go there, too.

Guess I'll take a week off.
 
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