You feel cheated because you have been cheated...The thing I can't stand is alot of movies that you order are basically given an inflated opinion buy the seller just to pawn the shit off...I mean..look at Franco..A large % of his movies are just complete shit..but you go to a site and read the synopsis of the film and they make it sound like it's the best thing since the invention of Ass-tro glide.To think of all the money I have saved just from mule alone that I would have blown on these films is enough to probably buy a car with.
By the way Paul..check it out man..you are at 666 level on your posts..congrats and may Satan smile upon you and bless you with more of these cool rips you are releasing.

i dont go to many websites, but it really pisses me off when a 'review' site's reviews are just links to the amazon.com sales page with each comment 'this was the greatest blockbuster of the year, 2 thumbs up!' add to cart?

this is the site that was the last straw
hshitp://www.living-dead.com/movie_database/movie_list.html

i like horror, i just dont like the mass market mtv horror melodromacrap that appeals to the sheep. i hate that stuff, hate it hate it hate it. but i do like boobs.

horror movies is banned and very hard to get in many countrys. i like get rare flicks, sometimes if i watch movies like PRANKS i know that i am only person in my hometown who do it just here just now. And i like music in many horror flicks also - espessially 70-80 decade.

and there is "something" in the air that is not possible explain why i love horror movies.

maybe i was in my previous life serial killer or raper? uh!

*BUMP*

Hey, great thread guys! Just read it while using search to find out your thoughts on "Funny Games" which I just watched for the first time (Amazing movie!)

I would love to hear some of your thoughts on this topic 3 years down the track. For me, I love the feeling that extreme cinema can give you, that feeling like your somehow slightly concussed and numb and confused, that has been entirely created by the efforts of a director and actors and all the other creative talents that work on this type of cinema. Probably the first film to blow me away like this was Hal Hartley's "Trust" (Not a horror film!) so this is not just about Horror films, however, films like "Funny Games", "Spoorloos", "The Blair Witch Project", "Suspira", "Videodrome", "The Thing", all these horror films and many more just evoke such an extreme emotional response (irrelevant of whether that is a positive or negative emotion), and just that feeling renders a film worthwhile in my books. Other non horror films like "The idiots" are just as fantastic.

Sorry about that, like I said, I just watched "Funny games" and am still floating arounfd the room somewhat.....


However, to get back on topic, the over the top gore films, zombie films etc are pure escapeism, and no censor is going to tell enyone who frequents this website what they cant see. If I want to see a mexican youth turn into an ape after a dodgy heart operation and pluck out some poor sods eyeball in LIVING colour, then Uncut is the only way to go. I sure don't watch these films for the plot, and I sure would not want to see that happen in real life or filmed in real life. Plus I love the inginuity that goes into making it all look real (Guinea pig anyone...).

There is a creature animatronics museum exhibition heading to my town soon and you can be sure I'll be there, cause that is definitly part of the attraction with these films.

Hope at least a part of that rant makes sense, and have a great rest of your weekend



P.s. "Censors tend to do what only psychotics do... they confuse reality with illusion."
- David Cronenberg


Great quote Iconoclast

i believe i was a caretaker

@daft, raper or rapper? Dunno which one's worse...

I made the mistake once to search for a video in ed2k of that
soldier in Iraq that was...well you know what happened. It was
the real footage and I don't know why I was curious but I saw it
and it really made me sick. I swore to myself I would never want to
see sick shit like that again.

That's why I like horror anyway : it isn't real (sometimes pretty obvious
bt if the effects are good it's nice to see) and we just have another 90
minutes of this REAL sick world.

But once it get's real : no way

i stay clear of all that rotten ogrish type stuff. my ex found me hard to understand when i?d giggle while watching fulci type neck stabbing action etc...yet at the same time i couldnt/wouldnt watch the real thing.i really dont get those people who find it funny to browse through train accident photos and the lot.
their lack of empathy and inability to fucking care less makes them mentally undeveloped in my eyes. it?s somewhat the same as a sociopathe would feel....completely indifferent or amused even.
don?t get me wrong.
to be interested in death or be lured by it is natural to me and there?s nothing strange there.i guess the difference is weather looking through a slow decapitation clip fucks you up or makes you feel somewhat warm and fuzzy inside.

Ironically I've always found horror fans are generally more empathic than non-genre people. Which makes you wonder about the contradiction to that in this threads theme. But I think, for me at least, that contradiction is the point. I'm a thirty-something horror fan of twenty years who has seen and experienced many troubling things in my life (as many of you have, I'm sure), and my reactions to those things are often shaped by my attitudes that have been formed by the "entertainment" that I've been exposed to.

I remember someone once saying "if childhood is the preperation for life, then adulthood is the preperation for death," so perhaps the imbuement by horror is the preperation for what lies between those two points.

Horror both works on the visceral and philosophical and I think the average horror fan in effected by both in equal measure. Unfortunately many in "the outside" world would not see the philosophical commentaries running through most horror movies.

The clinical attitude many detractors of the genre have is, as squeekygums said, tantamount to sociopathy. Exactly the attitude we are accused of by them.

In fact the MPAA and BBFC do what only psychopaths do, they confuse fantasy with reality, and to compound the problem they are bigoted enough to legistlate against thier own people (thier bosses in fact, us) based on thier unbalanced beliefs.

My personal interest in horror is not tied up with my interest in the nature of suffering, joy, birth and death (the only things we ALL have in common), but also in "outsiders" ridicule, or deridement, of our interest.