I think a lot of Hollywood horror has retreated to just using lots of gore and forgetting the suspense and heaven-forbid actual horror... eg Texas Chainsaw Massacre, House of Wax, Hills Have Eyes (all remakes) and the Hollywood versions of The Ring and The Grudge... compare that to say Wolf Creek and the first Saw movie (both Australian oddly enough) where comparatively there seemed to be a lot less gore and a whole lot more suspense and ... horror.
Heck Quentin Tarantino called Wolf Creek the scariest movie he'd ever seen and I suspect that has to stand for something. It could be just me but I see a lot of society becoming more and more like the one in "Idiocracy" and "entertainment" being anything that you can sit back in your seat, munch popcorn and turn your brain off...
Watch it during the daytime with the lights on and in the presence of others...
When it was released people grown men were walking out of cinemas trying not to throw up.... surprisingly there's very little actual "gore" in the movie.
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Heck Quentin Tarantino called Wolf Creek the scariest movie he'd ever seen and I suspect that has to stand for something. It could be just me but I see a lot of society becoming more and more like the one in "Idiocracy" and "entertainment" being anything that you can sit back in your seat, munch popcorn and turn your brain off...
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When it was released people grown men were walking out of cinemas trying not to throw up.... surprisingly there's very little actual "gore" in the movie.
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