I can't decide whether this is a good early question, but it might surface later, so here goes.
I like horror movies. I like the cathartic feeling at the end, if the film's good, and I like believing in supernatural elements against my better judgment (like in "The Shining") during the movie's run. But most horror movies feature a body count to heighten the suspense/gore factor/move the plot along, etc. -- and that's not something others may want to see.
As I rewatched "Dawn" last night, even I thought the initial killing spree and gore was intense, and I'm desensitized from all the other horror films I've watched. Did the violence turn you off initially or throughout the film? Did it detract from the pleasure of watching the movie?
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The violence and suspense turns me off so much I don't even try to watch horror movies. Can't do it. Not brave enough. Can't do it. Or can't suspend reality quite enough or...what does it take to enjoy a horror movie?
Sorry to be a lame Cinema Chatter participant but I really can't handle the horror film at all. I can almost tolerate the non-gory suspense film---like Shyamalan's "Signs." But even that is like tolerating a trip to the dentist, best if soon forgotten, rather than movie-watching pleasure.
Oh,"Lady in the Water" is of the horror genre too, is it not?
AEL, sorry to hear that and didn't intend to be exclusionary. I thought we were due for a film in that genre and picked one. I think "Lady" is horror, but probably not going to be so gory.
I cringed a few times. Mostly it was the biting and tearing flesh that bothered me. But the fact that the blood and gore looked really fake did make it more tolerable for me. If I'm constantly thinking, "boy, that blood looks fake," it's not so disturbing.
No apology necessary, cl.
I didn't feel excluded.
Your choice just forced a deep long look into my soul and inner psyche...no not really. Honestly if I was living in the same city as Rush, she probably would have made me watch the movie and I would have screamed and gotten over it. But I'm not doing it by myeslf. No siree.
I wasn't bothered by the gore because, as Erin noted, and by our current standards, it's pretty fake looking. Much of it was laughable even, like the first scene where we see that guy biting that black lady. It was so phony looking and the blood loked so thin and Kool-aidy that it really just made me giggle. Compare that to, say, the scene in the "Cape Fear" remake where Robert DeNiro bites a chunk out of his bed partner. Now that was utterly horrifying.
AEL, I don't think there is any gore in the "Lady" picture. Stick with us, though; we'll get to something that doesn't give nightmares!
I'm easily turned off by gore (I can't watch those Discovery channel shows where they do surgery), and I don't like horror or suspense. That being said, the gore in this movie was so amusingly fake that it didn't bother me at all.
I'm glad the gore wasn't too gory; I also thought it looked fake, but I still turned my attention away in a few scenes.
See, I was going to illustrate this post with the exploding head, but I thought it might be a little much.
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