I am a movie fan (over 2,000 movies watched and rated on netflix) but I am a horror lightweight.
I guess I just misunderstand the genre. I love Rob Zombie's "The Devil's Rejects" but I think of it more of an outlaw movie than a horror film...
and I watched "Irreversibe" but I didn't consider that horror, just KIND OF disturbing... I didn't lose sleep though.
I have seen "Salo or 120 days of Sodom" and I didn't consider the horror either.
I thought it was more politically disturbing than personally terrifying. It was an example of what happens when humans lose the bonds of civilized order like an abu ghraib sort of situation taken to the extreme. Salo implies that we are all capable of atrocity, thats why mostly everyone finds it disturbing.
I don't know if I have it in me to watch "Cannibal Halocaust" (if I watch animals tortured for entertainment its a decision about myself that I wot be able to go back and change and I'm not sure if I want to do that or not).
I guess my point is even as a horror lightweight, Hostel II went down as sweet as candy... I was never scared nor disturbed.
I guess I take it back... Salo was probably the only movie I have ever seen that "horrified" me for hours after I watched it.
Oddly enough, the night I saw "The Dark Knight" I had a nightmare about the Joker so vivid and real I thought I found my power animal. The Joker woke something deep in my psyche that no character in literature or film ever did in me. It was quiet a self awakening :-) as chaos is more seductive to me than fear.
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