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How do you watch horrors?

Started by Artemis, April 04, 2015, 11:03:09 AM

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popcorn

I can stomach nearly all violence and gore unless there's a sadistic/torture element to it, pain inflicted for the sake of pain.

If someone goes mad with rage and caves someone's head in with a shovel, then digs out their brains and shoves it all up their arse, no problem. Heat of the moment stuff.

If someone wakes up tied to a radiator and someone waves a screwdriver at them, I pass out. The psychological element of it freaks me out.

Quote from: popcorn on April 05, 2015, 11:08:45 PM
I can stomach nearly all violence and gore unless there's a sadistic/torture element to it, pain inflicted for the sake of pain.

If someone goes mad with rage and caves someone's head in with a shovel, then digs out their brains and shoves it all up their arse, no problem. Heat of the moment stuff.

If someone wakes up tied to a radiator and someone waves a screwdriver at them, I pass out. The psychological element of it freaks me out.

Wolf Creek or Hostel and Hostel Two are not films I recommend you see, then (if you have not already).

Junglist

Quote from: newbridge on April 05, 2015, 10:45:41 PM
I rarely watch horror. If you had to pick one movie to recommend that will scare me (not me in particular, but a hypothetical blank slate such as myself), what is it?[nb]I have no interest in pure gore like Saw or Hostel, nor do I find that genre scary because I am too preoccupied by the real world creepiness of the filmmakers[/nb]

The last horror movie I can remember being frightened by was The Ring (American version), but that was a long time ago and I was very young.

*Edit* Actually the scariest film for me is Fire in the Sky, which traumatized me in my youth. Maybe I will rewatch that.

Angst. Everyone should watch Angst.

Puce Moment

Well yes. Both Angst and Possession together are about the best 'horror' films I have seen outside of some of the classics.

Why haven't people seen Angst!!!!1

prwc

I have nagged loads of people to watch Angst for years too. A masterpiece, possibly the most simultaneously well made and disturbing film I've seen. That said it's probably best to have watched a decent amount of horror beforehand as it's very full on. Makes even Henry:Portrait Of A Serial Killer look tame in comparison.

It's a somewhat clichéd choice but for pure horror I still don't think any film beats The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.


Puce Moment

With Angst it isn't the gore that I find disturbing, it's just about EVERYTHING else. The goriest scene is unpleasant, but not as weird as
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the odd looking man in the wheelchair, the way the woman is tied by her foot to the door-handle, and the way the old women gets permanently wedged
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. And those scenes in the diner with those horrible sausages. But yes, it's the tone of it - ugh.

prwc

The clumsiness of the murders in it makes them far more believable than most other films where they're done efficiently and cleanly. The panic of the protagonist and the way he plans his crimes out
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only to end up having to kill in the messiest ways possible
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is a really brilliant touch.

It's definitely a very acclaimed film among hardcore horror nerds but has sadly yet to receive an official English subtitled blu-ray or DVD so remains somewhat obscure. I know Barrel Entertainment had the rights at one stage but I think they went under.

Through the slits between my fingers, desperately attempting to cover my agape eyes.

Ooh! Ah!
DRACULA!

popcorn

Quote from: Phoenix Lazarus on April 06, 2015, 12:52:25 AM
Wolf Creek or Hostel and Hostel Two are not films I recommend you see, then (if you have not already).

Saw Wolf Creek in the cinema. Nearly died from stress. I plan never to see the Hostel films.

Artemis

Ah, now you see Hostel was one of the films I felt drawn to, not because it's good but because it does have quite an intriguing premise. It quickly became apparent that this was an especially poor but equally disgusting movie, but once 'in' I had to see it through to it's resolution. So in that instance, I muted it, turned on the lights and some music, and fast forwarded it to see all the awful bits out of context and with zero suspense. It was still pretty grim, but far less so. Then I went back and watched it. It took longer (much more of a sacrifice of your time than the film warrants, so I don't recommend it) but it's how I handled it.

I draw the line at the human centipede though. That's one film where it's abundantly clear that there is nothing more to gleam other than the premise and however they handle it, it will never be as vaguely intriguing as the original idea.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Torture porn- being treated to very realistic graphic arbitrary torture is beyond my comprehension. Not due to squeamishness, I mean the sheer act of sitting and watching it is pointless and beyond the instincts of anyone who isn't either juvenile or psychopathic.

I enjoy over the top gore and suspense/horror.

I like the odd well-positioned jump scare but detest movies largely dependent on them.

I hate remorseless predictable 'unravelling' horrors because as soon as the downward spiral begins the tension and suspense ceases.


prwc

Quote from: Shoulders?-Stomach! on April 06, 2015, 09:29:09 PM
Torture porn- being treated to very realistic graphic arbitrary torture is beyond my comprehension. Not due to squeamishness, I mean the sheer act of sitting and watching it is pointless and beyond the instincts of anyone who isn't either juvenile or psychopathic.

I'm not really interested in watching that stuff any more but there's plenty of reasons someone might want to view such things without being either of those.

Puce Moment


madhair60

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on April 05, 2015, 09:29:07 PM
Who was it that posted that Manga(?) comic strip image of the guy squeezing his massively spotty face and then all the pus rains down into a child's mouth? That was pretty horrific.

Also Junji Ito

SteveDave

Quote from: popcorn on April 06, 2015, 12:58:13 PM
Saw Wolf Creek in the cinema. Nearly died from stress. I plan never to see the Hostel films.

[nb]Whenever Wolf Creek is mentioned I'm bound by law to repeat this story[/nb] I saw Wolf Creek in the cinema with my then girlfriend. Afterwards I asked if she liked it. "Yes" she said "but there weren't any wolves in it"

Kane Jones

Quote from: SteveDave on April 07, 2015, 07:50:07 PM
[nb]Whenever Wolf Creek is mentioned I'm bound by law to repeat this story[/nb] I saw Wolf Creek in the cinema with my then girlfriend. Afterwards I asked if she liked it. "Yes" she said "but there weren't any wolves in it"

Why did you split up?  She sounds like a keeper.

SteveDave

Quote from: Kane Jones on April 07, 2015, 07:51:08 PM
Why did you split up?  She sounds like a keeper.

Ahh I was young & she was younger. It wasn't meant to be.

Kane Jones

Quote from: BlodwynPig on April 05, 2015, 08:35:28 PM
A disturbed and brilliant mind. Can anyone beat that image for horror?


BlodwynPig

Quote from: SteveDave on April 07, 2015, 08:17:52 PM
Ahh I was young & she was younger. It wasn't meant to be.

Were there any wolves in it?

Cerys

Quote from: Kane Jones on April 08, 2015, 11:48:36 AM


Ah, I see you read the same article.  They knew how to do it back then, didn't they?

amnesiac

Quote from: prwc on April 06, 2015, 04:30:27 AM


It's a somewhat clichéd choice but for pure horror I still don't think any film beats The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

I can attest to this, I've seen Irreversible and most of the films mentioned here by TCM destroyed me. I literally had what I call a 'coronary event' but thinking bad it may've been a panic attack, very short of breath/ heart going mental, chest pains. I find it disturbing when characters are trapped within a system, like if one of them finds a cop and he turns out to be one of 'them', that helplessness and dereliction of duty. Also the grotesqueness of the film; the famous dinner scene where there's generational fuck-upness which also disturbs me in the same way. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is, for these reasons, unbelievably good .

Top tip: If you want to 'remove' yourself from anything you're watching then just play the Benny Hill theme inside your head.

BlodwynPig

"Where you're going, sonny, there ain't no Benny Hill..."

(echo: Benny Hill....benny hill... b e nny h il l)

*wind blows against metal wires, darkness falls

*stallion neighs, hooves on dirt

"Just the whites of your eyes"

*Silence

Puce Moment

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on April 05, 2015, 09:57:15 PM
Seen this? It has stayed with me for some reason.


You weren't wrong. A bloody brutal film - that knackered knee is quite something. But it is the scene when
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he finds his daughter that is really full-on
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. I'm surprised some of that didn't get censored.

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: Puce Moment on April 12, 2015, 01:19:31 AM
You weren't wrong. A bloody brutal film - that knackered knee is quite something. But it is the scene when
Spoiler alert
he finds his daughter that is really full-on
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. I'm surprised some of that didn't get censored.

The final lines in that film were very poignant.