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Topic: Has horror, lost it's horror?
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted August 02, 2008 06:28 PM
There is no other horror film creature that emits such sympathy from me than the original Frankenstein!
He didn't ask to be there. He didn't ask to exist, period, and all that he gets is cruelty. I felt so sorry for him. In truth, the monster Dr. Frankenstein creates is the only one in the film who, in truth, is not a monster.
I agree, films that are disturbing, or far more horrifying the gore filled movies. Unless you have seen combat, (though I was in the first gulf war, I didn't consider what we faced combat, compared to what they are facing these days), you wouldn't have seen much "gore", so that stuff I believe, the audience doesn't really take too seriously.
Ahh, we are jaded ...
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Osi Osgood
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posted August 04, 2008 09:43 AM
Yes, I did a two year stint in the Army for my country. I got out of the Military about three month's after the first Gulf Conflict was completed, but as George C. Scott says in his brilliant speech in the beginning of Patton.
"When people asked you what you did, during that great world war, you won't have to say ...
Well, I shoveled shit in Montana. "
(loose paraphrase)
I will always be able to hold my head high and say I did my bit for "King and Country"
Back to Horror ...
Jacob's ladder was a good creepy film. Another good film, (though more along the lines of science fiction), was "Altered States", which had some good horror elements as well, and truly kick ass special effects. I was truly knocked out by that and even almost thirty years later, it still packs a wallop!
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Chip Gelmini
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From: Brooksville, FL
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posted August 05, 2008 03:43 PM
I've never been interested in horror films. As a kid, I didn't want to be scared at the movies.
As an young adult I was thrilled to watch Poltergeist, then later The FLY with Jeff Goldblum and Gena Davis. And Jack Nicholson in The Shining tops my list. I had a chance to see Physco and liked that one. At the screening, Anthony Perkins who lived in Wellfleet here on Cape Cod made an appearance for discussion. He later died of Aids - and his wife was on one of the planes that struck the Towers on 9/11. They were a really nice couple. In Wellfleet they are sadly missed.
Slice and Dice movies just don't interest me period. Those aren't scary.....they're just stupid. And comedies about scary movies (i.e. "Scary Movie") are just plain gross and a waste of production and box office time & money. I was checking the theater (doing a walk through) during the mentioned title in this paragraph, and the scene involved the male member sticking through a peep hole in a bathroom stall. I was so surprised that people were laughing at this. I found it particularly disturbing....both in the sense the scene it's self was very gross overall, and that it is the reason why movies like Scary Movie and I Know What You Did Last Summer are being made....revenues up the wazoo. They can take these cheap horror movies without the revenues and put them you - know - where.
So I think Osi is right. Horror has lost it's horror. And that makes me think that Hollywood will loose it too. I just hope it doesn't happen before my time is up. I just bought a DVD projector, the Panasonic AX200U. I want to enjoy it for a very long time. The possibilities of multiple medias on my big screen, double features, trilogies are mind boggling endless.
:-)
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted August 06, 2008 09:38 AM
Anthony Perkins, not there was a guy who could really creep you out! He looks so darn innocent, and then he slices you up in the shower!
I've never gotten over that scene where he's watching the car sinking into the bog, calmly munching on candy, until he stops,
as the car has stopped, then the bubbles start coming up again and it sinks further.
and Perkins smiles ....
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