Movies: torture pron

[arigatomina]

This is a rant. There's some bad language and sexual references. Kiddies need not apply. ;p

I happened to be reading some reviews of Rob Zombie's "Halloween" and ran across an upset critic who was trashed by the rotten tomato 'zombie-lovers'. First they slammed her for her bad grammar in grammatically wince-worthy posts of their own. Then

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[ozanbaba]

i know what i mean. Rob Zombie's Halloween is just plain gore (remember guro from Japan). just that, it's opiously created as porn. one can easily can see that, and you indeed did see it easily.

[arigatomina]

I heard he grunts and pants and enjoys it a lot more in Zombie's Halloween II, so that one's even better. I'll have to watch it now so I can see how the fans defend it. ;p

I don't have a problem with the horror genre being flooded with torture porn gore, but I do wish fans of the movies would stop denying that's what it is. Oldschool horror movies made us get off on the shivers of tension and fear. Today we're getting off on the sadism of the torture/murder scenes. Either way, we get our fix and the creators get their paycheck.

[ozanbaba]

remember original Halloween. it was NOT really guro at all. or remember amazing horror movie Exorist. it was not gory. but it was scary. or there's this Night of Living Dead movie which defined zombie render over night (more or less).

i don2t watch horror movies anymore. they are just over gory over produced sh*ts now.

[jukebox_csi]

Eh..I kinda have disagree on Exorcist. It was a bit gory to me. I remember the cross scene....*shudders*

[jukebox_csi]

Yeh, too much gore actually makes the movie a turn off to me. I can't handle all that guts and fluids nastiness. It squicks me. When I find myself closing my eyes to turn away from scenes and gagging, it's not entertainment at all...it's just gross.

[arigatomina]

Gore for the sake of gore annoys me. I'm as jaded as I am desensitized. I like zombie movies where you wait around for the gratuitous "feeding" shot. There isn't much that will make me sick. But I can't look at protracted scenes without wondering about the people those scenes were made for - the audience that spent money encouraging horror makers to replace shivers with torture and gore. I wish there were a "horror" genre of porno movies that these people could watch instead. Then they can get their fix without the entire horror movie industry catering to their kinky needs. I feel the same way about excesssive sex and women-degredation/torture in my horror films. Make a porno version of it if that's what they want to watch. Obligatory nudity with tons of violence enacted on the woman in the place of sexual penetration is still just a violent rape fantasy for pervy viewers to enjoy. Put in a porno, market it to your horror audience, and you'll make plenty of money off it without ruining the entire horror genre

[akerushin]

Sounds to me that people just don't want to admit that they're into something kinky, because to them that's not normal, compared to just saying it's a horror movie.

But yeah.. I don't like movies that are gory because to me, that's not real horror, unless you're actually living through it. Annnd there have been people killed that way, which is why I don't like watching movies where people are tortured to death in gruesome way or where there is sexual violence for the sake of being sadistic to a character. It happens to way too many people in this world for it to be glorified on screen and for people to enjoy watching it in my opinion. I can understand if people have kinks and they like seeing it because it's a movie and obviously not real... but yeah...XP

[rosethorne]

I don't like horror at all anyway. People seem way too obsessed with torture-porn lately, though. Look at how popular the Saw series is.

[aquarian_days]

Excellent rant! Or really, it's well-thought out and not meant to insult for the sake of insulting, so excellent essay, rather