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http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/27/christopher.lee.horror/index.html#cnnSTCText

the horror... the horror...

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I have to agree with Sir Christopher Lee! Modern horror is now just a gore fest! Fright has given way to shock and its not the same! Yes some blood is inevetable but the film needs to be scary not just disgusting! We have all become so desenitized by all of the gore that each succseeding film seems to try to out do the last! Although some people seem to enjoy this kind of "horror" film for me it gets rather old very quick! Suspense, eerie atmosphere and a great story seem to be a thing of the past and its a shame. Not many movies like that anymore(although there are some). I will continue to live in the past rewatching my DVDs and hold on to some hope that there is more good to come.

Well said HabuHunter32. :thumbsup:

I too, don't watch most newer horror movies, because of the gore. As a kid, my imagination was enough to scare me while watching movies, now it is all on the screen, and it is worst than I can come up with.

As for Starship Invasions, it is a very good movie, to me. I remember a bad review in Famous Monsters of Filmland, but I watched it anyway. I was not disappointed.

Interesting that the Hammer films really pushed the blood and gore over what had come before.

Emphasis on blood and gore for shock value is at least as recent as the Theater of the Grand Guignol. Everything has its season - again and again and again. This is what American studios think is in season - again. They may be right, I've no opinion on that except to note that the current wave of French horror films is extremely popular and quite brutal (I've liked two of them, they're not my taste any more than, say, Hostel or Saw but much better made). Same thing happened in the Seventies. As Zorro points out, Hammer shocked people of that era as well.

But please, let's not slag off "modern horror" as if it were all one flavor. Try the J-Horror films, for examples, and others from other Asian nations. Ringu? Ju-on? These embody all the aesthetics you guys say you prefer.

There have been some excellent old-school ghost stories over the last decade or so. Try The Orphanage. That was produced by Guillermo del Toro, who has directed a string of fine horror movies: Mimic (compromised by a studio re-edit, dT is working ona director's cut), Cronos, The Devil's Backbone.

Let the Right One In. Drag Me to Hell is a recent one I missed, but it's no gorefest and is supposed to be good light fun - hey, it's Sam Raimi of Evil Dead fame!

I don't recall a preponderance of gore in either Dog Soldiers or Ginger Snaps (the Heathers of lycanthropy). Some, but not gratuitous. How about The Descent?

Some of us greatly enjoyed The Blair Witch Project.

Those are just off the top of my head. It's not all blood and guts out there, guys. Don't blind yourselves, these are not rare exceptions.

Just saw Descent last week and enjoyed it very much. Not over the top gore, but enough to keep you tingling.

A film buff freind of mine came up with the best trailer line for a horror film ever, used on one of his super-8 home movie projects:

"SEE UNBELIEVABLE GORE!!!!
AND SOME BELIEVABLE GORE!!!!"

:lol:

the horror... the horror...

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I was extremely unhorrified by that pic........In fact.....after studying it for quite some time, I came......uh....to an exciting conclusion.......That girl on the left is HOT!!! Is there a 1:1 garage kit of her?

a little off the beaten path here but my favorite type of horror flick is where it depicts stuff that could actually go down like Hostel. Gory? Yes. Could really happen? Yes and I'm sure it does.

House of 1,000 Corpses is another.

Granted, you don't need the grizzly, sinuous, blood and guts but it helps add to the realism. A good psychological terror is good too. None come to mind but they're out there.

The Gore factor is why I don't go to horror movies anymore. All the movies that scared me as a kid (I'm fifty now) never had a bit of gore in them. I know times are changed but I think good writing makes a difference in how scary a movie can be. The Ring, The Sixth Sense, were all good movies that weren't blood baths.

Zorro , i was thinkin' the same thing you said in yer second post .
i remember us kids really loved the Hammer films and our parents saying they weren't as good as the Universal films becuase they were too bloody .
to me it all depends on how well it ties in with the overall mood of the movie .
hb

While I tend to agree with Sir Christopher, the Japanese cuts of some of his own films were pretty over the top when it came to gore. For example, in his version of The Mummy, when Kharis (Lee's character) has his tongue cut out so he cannot blaspheme the gods, in the general release it is more implied than anything else. In the Japanese cut, we see a guard holding the disembodied, bloody dripping tongue in a pair of tongs.

And I do admire the man as one of the worlds greatest actors. That said, when it came to Starship Troopers... that was one of the two movies I actually walked out on. (For anyone curious, the other was "Pretty Woman".)

The Gore factor is why I don't go to horror movies anymore.Let's keep politics out of this!

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and that's a picture of him claiming to have invented Gore in horror movies :p
hb