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There are things in gialli and cannibal films that shock and disturb and can be legitimately described as 'horrific'. Twilight, on the other hand, is fairly bland and family friendly and is only 'horrific' if you look at it from a artistic point of view!

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Originally Posted by broonage (Post 112677)

For me it has to be the fairly recent torrent of torture crap. This can be split into two:

- we got some semi-decent intelligent flicks like Saw and possibly Hostel, then suddenly we get a million sequels or imitations which are not true horror. Just an excuse to milk money and ride the waves. I do not want to see 90 mins of shit and people being traumatised (perhaps it is me who is traumatised with being so bored?).

- the number one pet-hate for me has to be the low budget torture gore stuff that is just sick and perverted. You know, Toetag releases, August Underground, Vomit trilogy etc. I HATE this stuff to the core. It gives horror a terrible name, and I just don't understand why folks will want to watch movies like this. Times like this i kind of like how this stuff doesn't get official releases in Britain, not on a censorship level but just not encouraging the idiots who makes these films to make more.

2nd type of horror is the animal stuff. I love Lenzi, Martino etc, but just hate seeing animals in their flicks. One of the reasons I would never watch that Mondo crap.

Phew I feel better now. :lol:

I totaly 100% agree on low budget torture porn etc, ive always stated films are meant to be enjoying not leaving u feeling disturbed etc, Grotesque Guinea pig etc seems to have gone down well with a lot of ppl but imo i feel there is no need for this type of film but hey each to there own...

I detest remakes but again if it encourages people to dig out the original then that must be a good thing.... i must admit there is odd remake thats not that bad i was quite surprised at remake of last house on left, when i watched it on sky few wk back better than i expected

Films with 2 things very bad special effects or films where nothing happens just loads of screaming women running screaming all the time....

Just to play Devil's advocate, even if a remake gets people viewing the original film, just think how much better the money could have been spent making a new, unique film. I often wonder how many potential classics are still in the script phase only, as Hollywood follows the dollar. Still, I don't think Hollywood is to blame, it is the home of the so called film industry, not the Hollywood Arts Collective.;)

Back to the topic at hand, I dislike horror comedies but love funny horror films.

I really can't stand anything with children in it unless they are killing people or being killed.

A romantic sub plot in a horror film gets on my nerves, but more so in action films unless it involves one of those very uncomfortable sex scenes between a bloated Steven Seagal and an East European woman, young enough to be his daughter as witnessed in many a dvd these last few years. They hold a Mondo type fascination for me, that is far from healthy I imagine.

Not really into the mainstream slasher movies (Fri 13th, Urban Legends, etc)
Vampire movies (although I'm discovering some more interesting low budget Euro ones that are more appealing, but in general they don't do much for me)

I wouldn't say I disliked any type of horror. Though I am not keen on Boa v Python and similar films. This may just be because the films are crap though:)

I'm not really into remakes (except the good ones, The Thing, The Fly and Invasion of the Body Snatchers), I don't like ghost stories too much either.I don't really have to watch any of the Twilight films to know I will hate them with a vengeance! I can't stand straight to DVD horror fare either, the kind of stuff that's shown on The Horror Channel all the time.

personally i find that the redo of MBV tipped the balance for me...love the original (30 year old "teenagers" come on!!) thought redo (saw both 2 and 3d versions) both shite.
Twilight has replaced the Cure IMO.
i just like to be scared when i watch something..whether its the sicko stuff (which im tiring of anyway) or stuff like NOROI (not seen this? check it out...unless you hated BWP that is...)

I love the horror genre but movies like Hostel and Saw are my least favorite. Torturing people for money or game is too senseless for my tastes.

1990's Straight to video dross! :happy:

I'm getting very tired of found footage style horror films.

They just scream laziness... although, the low production values and questionable 'acting' boasts high returns, so unfortunately if people keep paying to see these sorts of films, they will be here to stay.