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i know the feeling
my kids are at the horror movie stage and its driving me nuts
school holidays only started for me on thurs and already weve had all 4 (or was it 5) freddy movies and they have to be the worst
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So I am not alone in my disappointment at the sad decline of the horror genre. Whilst it may be true that there have been of late a spate of gore-fest flicks (THHE2, Hostel, etc, etc) with more than enough splatter to satisfy the merely curious and the sensationalist, the actual horror film seems to have virtually disappeared.
Or have they...
Is it perhaps that our Ogrish tastes and curiosity and the uncensored availability have enabled those who are readily willing to be subjected to a constant bombardment of enough violent actualities to desensitise us to the point where nothing shocks us anymore? Even those not actively seeking such ogrish morsels are equally able to view actual documentary horror on news programmes every day. :shock:
Console games played by impressionable children and teenagers are often so violent in their depiction of crime and death resulting from violent crime that they carry the British Board of Censors 18 certificates; yet it appears that some children, below the statutory 18 years of age limit are allowed to play such games by their parents or at least, be allowed to play them unsupervised. :shock:
Television programmes have also pushed back the boundaries of what is acceptable to the point where programmes like Waking the Dead, CSI, ETA al can show illustrations of all kinds of violent crimes and the effects of the same so that we can take it in our stride. :shock:
We have become a society where violence and the effects of violence are taken for granted as being everyday occurrences and treated the same by the majority. Where war - the true horror waged upon society - is equally treated as "just another news event" and there is virtually no censorship of war correspondants reports. :shock:
As we get older we are exposed to more and more random acts of violence and horror via various media, including the cinema though sadly it would appear that it is not primarily the more mature cinema goers / viewers who have caused the apparent decline in the quality of horror movies. :(
That seems to be brought about by the shameless hunger of the youth of our society for more and more sensationalist horror / violence because of their earlier & earlier exposure and desensitisation and the even more shamelessly exploitive and cynical film producers hunger for the filthy lucre.
Films today go far beyond what is actually neccessary. Plots have become flimsy and unrealistic (even for horror / fantasy films). Characters are two-dimensional (at best) and tension is replaced by jerky, jolting mini-shocks and buckets and buckets of gore.
Originality is replaced by formulaic repetition and we are seeing more and more returns to past classics.
It seems that we have reached a point in horror films where we are no longer shocked unless the shock-event is so extreme it assaults our own sensibilites and innate sense of acceptability. But where do we go from here.......?
Like porno flicks, at first a woman masturbating was considered risque or racy but quickly HAD to be replaced by more racier man on woman sex scenes, then that was passe and penetration shots were required to keep the audience happy, then double penetration shots, then gang-bangs, anal, animals, etc, etc, etc, etc...
End of the horror film???
No, actually IMHO it is the end of the horror film audience.
De_sade
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Dog Soldiers 2 will be out soon :happy:
in general, i don't like too many Hollywood films as they're just based on tried and tested formulas, almost guaranteed to give a certain level of investment return. the ususal small range of stars are wheeled out to take the main role and america is always right and just.
I much prefer to watch french or german films and more recently new zealand/aussie films as the relatively low budgets hones the skills to produce good solid content and story over an excess of flashy effects.
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Dog Soldiers 2 will be out soon :happy:
