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Scary or Gore?
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It seems like all the new "scary" movies are really just gore fests to visually stimulate you. There's really not much scary about them anymore. My question is: Which do you prefer, a good scary movie, or a good gory movie?
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Mostly all horror/scary/gore movies are annoying and have no plot to back up the head being impaled.
Or their is a Japanese girl running around with hair growing out of a wall, THAT STORY HAS DEPTH.
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Well i'd say classic scary movies...The Shining, Exorcist, and most of all ..The Thing. I thought The Thing had both story and gore (dear god amounts of it), and lot of anxiety attacking scenes lol.
Though these days, its all slasher shit or remakes that go really really bad.
The only two movies i fell in love with because they were part scary and gory(ish)..and freaked me out to the core was Se7en and Silence Of The Lambs. Because there were no ghosts or zombies. The badguys were human like us.
Pretty creepy.
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I mean The Devil's Rejects is one of my favorite movies and that is straight gore. But I also love the scary movies mentiontioned, especially The Shining.
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Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.
No wait! I got one too.
Scary or Gore? Does it really have to be either / or. Because AlGore is scary.
I used to like horror as a genre.... but now Im battling to stay awake during them. Movies like The Ring and Saw are just bad movies to me. They run like a comedy, but they arnt funny, that just makes them boring. The gore isnt scary, its just silly. If you want scary gore, go google "iraq beheadings" or something see if you can keep your lunch down for that.
Last decent horror movie I saw would be Evil Dead 1 and that was only because it was scary in its day.... again now it just looks silly.
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Made me 10 times the pro-gun nut I already was.
Edit- Infact that experience almost coverted me into the policehood. Figured I need to find those individuals and throw em in prison.
--When you resubscribe to SWG, an 18 yearold Stripper finds Jesus, gives up stripping, and moves with a rolex reverend to Hawaii.
--In MMORPG's l007 is the opiate of the masses.
--The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence!
--CCP could cut off an Eve player's fun bits, and that player would say that it was good CCP did that.
Yeah I hear that...
My parents only said a few things to me that turned out to be true
But one of them was from my Mom.... "Im not scared by things like movies, its what people do to each other that scares me"
Thats about where Im at in life. There is no hollywood monster as bloodthirsty as most people in power.
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"Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees. To hear the softly spoken magic spell" Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Recent horror films (most of them) are canned, by-the-numbers, rehashed B.S. aimed at the teen-to-college crowd. I think the days of horror films being cast with older main characters and appealing to a broader audience is mostly over.
Hammer films for example, schlock, but good schlock. Main heroes were guys in their 50's. But watch a film today, and it's the cast of Friends as main characters, likely as not. The genre has been compromised.
Uhm- excuse me- do you know what the hell you're talking about? No. Define "new." New as in made after 1970? Because that's the last time the majority of scary movies focused on suspense. As soon as special effects tech got better- it was gore gore gore.
And god damn it- I love it. How can you say "new" ??? Are you still a youngling? I mean- there was an entire decade of 80's slasher flicks.
The Holy Trinity.
In the name of the Jason, Freddy and Michael- and our father; Tom Savini- Amen.
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I prefer the classic horror actors: Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr., Christopher Lee, to any of the ones nowadays.
A majority of horror films have not stopped using suspense after 1970. The Shining, Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, Poltergeist, and the slew of other suspense-driven movies all disprove that statement.
By "new" he means films released in recent years. There's no denying the surge of horrific (and I don't mean scary folks) horror films with so much gore that it almost becomes pornographic in nature.
A majority of horror films have not stopped using suspense after 1970. The Shining, Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, Poltergeist, and the slew of other suspense-driven movies all disprove that statement.
By "new" he means films released in recent years. There's no denying the surge of horrific (and I don't mean scary folks) horror films with so much gore that it almost becomes pornographic in nature.
I'm so desensitized I can't tell. I swear the 80's where worse with the gore....
--When you resubscribe to SWG, an 18 yearold Stripper finds Jesus, gives up stripping, and moves with a rolex reverend to Hawaii.
--In MMORPG's l007 is the opiate of the masses.
--The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence!
--CCP could cut off an Eve player's fun bits, and that player would say that it was good CCP did that.
Do I have to bust out the never ending list of literally thousands of campy gore flicks from the 70's and 80's? If anything- "recent" years have seen a movement away from the gore fest... the 90's gave way to the "psychological thriller"s that found a home under the ever broadening "horror" genre.
I'm not saying if it ain't gory, it's bad. I'm simply throwing a hissy fist over someone out of their element when it comes to generalizing periods in the genre. Just let me have my insignificant little moment- and take what I say with a grain of salt.
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They were. The 70's had a ton of little known slasher flicks as well. I think the defining moment of when this gory era ended was when Jason Goes To Hell came out in 1993 and it absolutely bombed after earlier large scale successes in the theatres. So to say that recently movies have gotten gory is absurd... that is- unless your frame of reference only extends 10 years back or so... which is ignorant...
I'ma shut up now.
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Well, this is a forum, and I'm currently discussing the subject with you, hissy fit or not.
You can bust out a list if you'd like. How many of those gore flicks were widely popular and spawned sequel after sequel that shared the same success? Very few became that popular, and many films made sequel after sequel even though no one wanted to see them. I call it the Police Academy Syndrome. Talk about scary films....
Today's issue with the horror genre is that originality is not the order of the day. With each sequel, remake, adaptation, or plain out J-horror film clone, I can't help but wonder when a movie in the genre is going to break the current trend and come up with something simply amazing. But I guess at the end of the day, that's a general issue with the film industry altogether, and not just one specific area.
that use both scare and gore factors. i suppose an example woiuld be
using a guy walking down a street turn into an alley and come face to
face with a decaptated mutilated body and then someone like a freddy
type character or the guy in chain saw massacre come and kills him to.
u can have really good moivies that use that in them if they make a
good story at the beginning explaining y this guy likes going around
massacring ppls.
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Gore? Check out the Peter Jackson's movies from the 80:s. Now those are gore
I dont understand the appeal for gore films. Especially those nutty "Saw" flicks. Kind of reminds me of how so many people back in the 80's loved the "Faces of Death" video's where you saw actual gore.
Give me a good psychological thriller anyday. If a movie can scare you without dropping an ounce of blood then that's a well made movie.