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Post by kateln on Oct 15, 2009 21:52:15 GMT -4
I saw a TV ad for a movie, "last house on the left" yet another of those torture type flicks. I just have zero desire to watch any movie where people spend the entire time brutalizing one another in very graphic ways. And doesn't it seem like another one comes out every 3 months or so? And they continuously raise the bar on how graphic the brutalizing gets? I recall last summar The Strangers came out and right away I thought "I hope this movie is long forgotten by the time Halloween comes around, because I don't think I could handle opening the door to see kids wearing those blank white masks..." Anyhow, yeah, the torture porn genre has gotten so over the top that its stubborn refusal to fade away is disturbing. I'm late on this, but ITA. I don't get the appeal of "torture porn". I did watch a special on horror movies a few years ago (I like scary movies, just not gruesome ones...) and I believe it was Wes Craven who was discussing how trends in horror movies almost mirror the political climate/mood of the country. That's why in the 70's, when Vietnam was going on, you had the original Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, etc. the precursers to "Torture Porn". In the 80's when things were going better, we had the "Sarcastic" horror movies--Freddy with his quips before killing, Jason and the unrealistic deaths. Now we're in two wars, an economic crisis, the country is divided...and "torture porn" is popular again. |
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Post by Shalamar on Oct 19, 2009 21:45:04 GMT -4
Maybe this belongs in the True Confessions thread, but I love the Saw movies. They're torture porn, but the torture-ees always deserve it (well, kind of), and the tortures are imaginative in a delightfully sick way.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2009 9:20:20 GMT -4
Me too! I know rationally that they're not good movies, but I can't help but love them. And I'm a girl.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2009 16:48:36 GMT -4
I can't believe we got through this whole thread without anyone mentioning the 'electric chair fire' scene from The Green Mile. I was so disturbed from that scene that I cried throughout the rest of the movie. And I don't mean scared crying, I mean full out gasping for breath sobs! That screaming was more disturbing than anything I've ever heard and it wasn't even a scary movie!
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Post by tamaradixon on Oct 21, 2009 17:01:15 GMT -4
I can't believe we got through this whole thread without anyone mentioning the 'electric chair fire' scene from The Green Mile. I was so disturbed from that scene that I cried throughout the rest of the movie. And I don't mean scared crying, I mean full out gasping for breath sobs! That screaming was more disturbing than anything I've ever heard and it wasn't even a scary movie! That movie was disturbing period. The shot of the dead children, the woman with the brain tumour. Scarey! |
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Post by hushhush on Jul 29, 2011 14:18:59 GMT -4
Netflix decided that I might like London to Brighton based on things I had watched recently. Sorry, Netflix, but I did not!
I think this falls into the Boys Don't Cry category of well-made, well-acted film that I never, ever want to watch again in my life!
The entire movie is very, very disturbing. The main plot follows an aging prostitute who agrees to make a quick buck by finding an underage girl for a gangster pedophile. As a viewer, you pretty much spend the entire film cringing and fighting the urge to yell "Jeebus, Lady, don't do this!!!! WTF are you thinking?!?"
Well, despite your pleas she goes through with it, which leads to THE most disturbing scene in the whole movie. She delivers the girl to the super skeevy pedophile and then has to sit downstairs and listen to everything. Gah. It gets even worse from there! I won't spoiler the ending. Watch it if you dare, but don't say I didn't warn you!
I also watched Red Road about a month ago. (I liked Fish Tank and RR is by the same filmmaker.) YIKES. This film should come with a warning: may cause severe depression and make you want to gouge your eyes out. It's kind of like Breaking The Waves, only set in Glasgow. I'm actually surprised Netflix has this on streaming. It's "not rated", and there's a scene towards the end in which you realize precisely why it's "not rated." If it had been submitted to the MPAA, it would undoubtedly be NC17 or X!
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Post by xyzzy on Jul 30, 2011 3:37:11 GMT -4
Oh how I love to read these threads. My early childhood was destroyed by a showing of The Manitou and I subsequently developed an extremely high tolerance for movie & tv violence. I honed this tolerance with the the Aliens franchise and The Exorcist when I was 10-11ish, and they saw me through Oldboy, Audition, The Girl Next Door, and a f**kload of torture porn, graphic war movies, and cult horror. (And Spartacus. Oh yes.) I have not seen Salo. Might draw the line at that one.
The Passion completely did me in, though. I can never, ever, ever see that movie again. I was doing ok until the scourging, and then I had to stop watching for like two hours so I could regain my composure. Something about how the ends of the scourge get caught on his ribcage and the Roman has to like, twist and peel it off... ugh! UGH! Alone, it wasn't much, but as the culmination of Gibson's other directorial and cinematic choices during that scene... I was disturbed to the point of literal nausea. I felt I had to soldier on because I had friends who wanted to discuss the film, but I really, really, really didn't want to.
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Post by forever1267 on Jul 30, 2011 4:11:39 GMT -4
AV Club discussed Zodiac and I agree with them on 2 of the most disturbing scenes. the Lake murders and the Basement scene. Fantastic film and we will probably never know who the Zodiac was, which makes the film all the creepier.
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Post by hushhush on Jul 30, 2011 12:14:38 GMT -4
That lake scene in Zodiac is a doozy. I think it's the combo of the act taking place in broad daylight and the extremely calm nature of the killer.
It's weird how sometimes what's not shown can be more disturbing that what is. In that London to Brighton film I mentioned above you really don't see much but I think that actually made it MORE disturbing than if you did!
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Post by bklynred on Aug 3, 2011 19:00:31 GMT -4
I can't believe we got through this whole thread without anyone mentioning the 'electric chair fire' scene from The Green Mile. I was so disturbed from that scene that I cried throughout the rest of the movie. And I don't mean scared crying, I mean full out gasping for breath sobs! That screaming was more disturbing than anything I've ever heard and it wasn't even a scary movie! I saw this a few weeks back and was mortified. |
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