Snuff-tastic

[andrewducker]

It was a tad disturbing that the trailers before 28 weeks later were largely for movies where a bunch of people wander into somewhere they shouldn't and then get tortured to death. They were Paradise Lost,Vacancy and Captivity. While I'm not going to join the Daily Mail's "Ban This Sick Filth" campaign, franky the last thing I need in my life is fake snuff movies.

Comments

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

That genre does appear to be popular about now. I don't have any interest in it. The gimmicky ones are just.. well.. crap and gimmicky, from what I've seen. The non gimmicky ones are just nasty. Never really went through the whole "video nasty" thing. If the modern-day equivalents are getting big cinema releases, you even lose the "OMG this is so naughty!" factor.

That sort of film seems popular though, and with people I know too. Takes all sorts.

[andrewducker]

The only one I've been tempted by was the first Saw, which people said was quite clever and psychologically interesting. Everything else has just seemed to be torture for the hell of it. Baffles and disturbs me, it really does.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have described Saw as clever and psychologically interesting. I'd have described it as stupid and hokey to an extreme, with torture for the hell of it (though not quite as much as some other films). Some people really enjoyed it though and agreed with what you've heard.

Also, it's "stress positions" and "intense interrogation", not torture. Torture's not allowed, don't you know? :-p

[sterlingspider.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have described Saw as clever and psychologically interesting. I'd have described it as stupid and hokey to an extreme, with torture for the hell of it (though not quite as much as some other films).

Agreed.
Saw is the first movie I have ever seen that actively angered me for wasting that portion of my life.

I'm normally an extremely immersive movie watcher, I'm a horror director's dream. I jump at the jumpy parts and I have nightmares about the nightmarey parts, but the most I can say about Saw is that it grossed me out viscerally a few times and generally it struck me as a sad and desperate attempt to remake Se7en without any of the good actors or writers or originality.