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Am I the only person who really hates the torture porn horror movie trend? I don't know if it's because a movie that just slowly details gruesome detailed torture again and again is boring to me (it is) or if I just don't have enough schadenfreude in me to enjoy watching annoying people get killed horribly. I mean articles you read on this trend talks about the 'excitement' and 'thrill' of watching them in this breathy way and I'm just like...wow. I didn't know sadism was such a secret kink for so many Average Joes.

Which is cool of course, but I can't enjoy my sadism in a public enviroment with popcorn and sticky theater floors xD but maybe that's just me.

I just hate people who are like 'Ohhhh well I guess a lil blood and guts scares you huh' I'm like motherfucker >T don't go assuming...I love splattergore but I prefer it presented in an almost comedic over the top way. Crappy 80s B movies and the like. And I love body horror, I'm a huge Cronenberg fan. But this new trend, idk. It just makes me uneasy. Too much 'watered down snuff film' for my liking.

I guess people think you can't make horror new and fresh without going over the top. Ah well.

Just wanted to get that off my chest. xD

Your Sig pic is HOT *drools*

Never heard it called "Torture porn" but yes, and I'm no fan of that either. I like horror films and watching people die in creative ways but insta-death by weapon x is one thing, watching death and harm scenes dragged out to unneccessary lengths for gratuitus affect is another. That stuff makes me feel sick.

I remember a period on the news where the topic of what was publicly appropriate was brought up. A movie theater had refused to show Brokeback Mountain because of content, and then promptly replaced it with Hostel. What. the. F***?

remember in America we're more open to violence more than sex. In Europe it's the other way around where they are more open about sex than violence

I'm in Canada, which I suppose could be somewhere between the two but is more or less closer to the USA I think, as far as culture goes. I do live in a very liberal minded area though.

It's not so much violence, as the type of violence. Hostel has been challenged in theaters on it's own, with arguments against it because of torture and misogyny.

America is more conservative than most of the countries in the world

Seems that way. It's more regional up here. Where I used to live it's quite conservative and something like Brokeback Mountain definately wouldn't have been at theaters, unless it was to look at mountain scenery. Hostel wouldn't have been here either.

For us Brokeback Mountains weren't in major theaters but they were in DVDs

too lazy to read all 18 pages to see if it's been mentioned SO The Last Airbender, I have alot to say about it. I can’t understand how you can take a solid story , that has a gigantic fan-base, and destroy the story… oh wait… yes I can I’ve seen Dragon Ball Evolution. I could understand the mispronunciation of the names if this were a book, or the leaving out of some characters, but I don’t understand how you can make a movie that is meant to be a Trilogy of movies and leave out some of the most important characters, King Boomie, the Kiyoshi warriors, the earth kingdom dwellers at the northern Air Temple. What is this bull, I want a reduex, through the whole movie I was watching Zuko and thinking “Why is Aniken Skywalker from episode 3 in this movie?” I’m not sure exactly how many people LIKE Avatar: The Last Airbender, but for those of you who do, I think you can agree with me that this series deserves a better real life adaptation. I want a proper remake, I want to see King Boomie, I want to see the Kiyoshi Warriors, I want to see Aang go after the frozen frogs in the swamp, meet up with the crazy old woman then get captured by the fire nation, I want an Uncle Iroh who is short, fat, drinks tea and plays Pisho. I want an Admiral Zhao with real mutton chops, I don’t want to see Ozai’s face until book three and when I do see him I want him to have his bad-ass beard and his fire nation crown. I want Sokka to be funny and not serious. I want Aang to be childish and act childish, I want the true story of the Avatar, not some made up bull by a third rate director who’s last who knows how many movies have sucked, give me the Avatar movie I waited for and looked forward to. I weep as an Avatar fan.

:( I have seen a little of hostel and I dont like it at all. I like the saw movies but this was to much. Mainly because it takes place in slovakia. Where I am from.
So I dont like it at all because I feel it gives a bad name in a way. Then again look at other horror films that take place in other countries. Though it does kinda make me think that people will think that that is how slovakia is. Full of torture. It's not. :/

I can't really stand gory movies, but for some reason I can stand Repo!the Genetic Opers and Silent Hill I think it's done in a tasteful manner where it's not all about gore, it's just what you get when someone cuts an organ out.

Bad movies make the world go round; lift

I found Alice in Murderland quite a bad picture..I had the dvd and ended up giving it away to a family member. If the script had been a bit better written, other than that, the acting wasn't bad and it could of been a decent horror film.

I personally love watching terrible movies. Not high budget ones that just ended up bad, but really low budget crazy awful movies XD And then there are ones like Kung Pow and Blazing saddles that set out to be purposefully awful. Gotta love those as well.

I love watching b-rated horror, not like Saw 17 or crap like that ~ more like... Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
The worst movie I ever remember seeing was Dumb and Dumber. **ug**

All time worse film ever would have to be"It Came From Somewhere Else" for me. Twas a B horror film I picked up at the local drugstore. And oh. my. god. It's so bad, it's funny.