Do You Think That Horror Films Go to Far

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Permalink Reply by Paul Dateh on June 22, 2007 at 7:38pm

all the torture, gore, and crap in horror films has gone way out of hand. i don't even think it's scary anymore. only sick to look at.

i think the best horror flicks are the ones that have great stories. the ones that twist and turn in your mind. nothing is more powerful than your own imagination, and i find that horror films that push you to use your own imagery to complete the picture give you a far more scary experience than watching any exploding head or dangling eyeball on the screen.

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Permalink Reply by Lee Ortiz on June 22, 2007 at 7:55pm

I agree. I'm not a big fan of horror films, like that torture in Hostel and Saw with all that gore is just disgusting and not scary at all, it's stupid.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Dateh on June 22, 2007 at 8:17pm

the story behind hostel could have made a GREAT movie, but they kind of fell to the usual cheap tricks.

the first saw was pretty interesting. it's a very intriguing concept. the sequels were horrible, though. >:P

i'm not completely against gore in films, though. it's just that the filmmakers have to have a good reason to include that kind of stuff in the film. if disturbing images are absolutely necessary to effectively tell the story, then i have no problem with it.

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Permalink Reply by Brandon Longstreth on June 23, 2007 at 12:22am

Hostel wasn't scary because you wanted those kids to get tortured. You wanted to see him snip the achilles tendon. It's not that the gore was too much it was that the writing was too bad...

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Permalink Reply by Paul Dateh on June 23, 2007 at 8:07pm

yeah, the writing was pretty bad. they butchered a really cool story.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Woolf on June 26, 2007 at 3:49am

Totally agree with what you're saying, Paul. The scaries movies are the ones that make you imagine the fear inside you. A great example is the movie Jaws. The freaking motorized shark almost never worked, so Spielberg was forced to show less and less of it. It was always under the water, and all you'd see is that fin above the waterline. People were so traumatized by that movie they never went swimming in the ocean again! Ha!

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Permalink Reply by Arthur Reeder on June 22, 2007 at 8:37pm

Whatever the consumer will put up with. Most horror films are not scary or interesting anymore. I do think the term "torture porn" is accurate for some of these dumb flicks. I miss the old hitchcock and Serling style of movies. At least they kept your interest for more than 5 seconds.

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Permalink Reply by Veronica on June 22, 2007 at 9:03pm

YES!!

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Permalink Reply by Brandon Longstreth on June 23, 2007 at 12:20am

No.

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Permalink Reply by Brandon Longstreth on June 23, 2007 at 12:39am

I will even elaborate: special effects aren't the problem with horror movies. The problem is (and this is becoming a trend across all genres) that film are substituting effects for plot. No one is clever anymore. That's the problem with movies.

As much as I hate the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre(my own weird reasons) it's a pretty good example of how to do a horror film. Put your characters into a terrifying situation, and show as little of it as possible. There are only a handfull of gore scenes in that movie but it's been hailed as the bloodiest movie of all time(my problem with the film). It's a trick of the eyes, your mind fills in the blanks and makes it that much worse.

To be honest, gore doesn't bother me at all. Maybe because i'm a post-teenage male who grew up watching Freddy Krueger? Or is it the current trend of the world, that each generation we become more and more tolerant of violence?





Don't you hate it when you lose your train of thought?

Was i rambling because I'm passionate about this subject? Nope. My friend brought this up a few hours ago after being disappointed with a horror film he rented, this is just leftover debate.

So uh... gore is just a crutch for lazy writers. (<~~~ guilty as charged)

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Permalink Reply by Rick Rey on June 23, 2007 at 4:53am

umm can you say FACES OF DEATH???

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Permalink Reply by Steve Woolf on June 26, 2007 at 3:47am

Wasn't the Faces of Death series actually real, as opposed to a Hollywood horror film?

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