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

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Avoid Hostel 2 while you're at it. At least the first one was borderline amusing. The second is apparently sexual violence against a group of female leads. Not my cup of tea.

[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.

[kelly-lesbo.livejournal.com]

It's a disgrace. Fancy going to see a film about murderous, rampaging, infected humans killing people on a huge scale and having to put up with previews for torture movies. What were they thinking?

:)

this time with emoticon!

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

Films where people get captured then raped and tortured seem to be en vogue in Hollywood at the moment. There have always been such films, but most were always straight to video affairs, with only the occasional one ever appearing in the cinemas. At the moment, however, it seems to be the only kind of horror film Hollywood is interested in producing. We've had Hostel, the Hills Have Eyes remake and sequel and various others, which have absolutely no artistic merit or plot beyond people getting tortured in nasty ways.

Horror is probably my favourite genre of film, but I really don't see the appeal of these sort of films. They are not horror films IMHO, just an easy way to make a shocking film full of very graphic violence.

[in-thy-bounty.livejournal.com]

When I came out the cinema the other night, I noticed that every single poster along the wall was for a twisted horror movies.

It's a golden age! ;)

[kelly-lesbo.livejournal.com]

All this while the real horrors go on virtually ignored - Darfur etc