It Takes A Special Person To Watch This Sort Of Shit

I'm really weird when it comes to horror movies. If it's a slasher movie like Jason or Freddy I can watch them and laugh as nothing about it could realistically happen in real life. If the scenarios of the movie could actually happen such as the torture and killing of women and men by a guy who dressed up as a clown that's when I don't watch those kind of horror movies. A part of me wants to watch at least the first Terrifier but I have yet to do so. I hope my ramblings makes sense.

I'm pretty desensitized to violence and seen plenty of "extreme" horror films so gore doesn't bother me. The problem for me is that the gore in these movies is so cartoonish and over the top it just comes off as too try hard to impress me. The first Terrifier I thought in particular was complete trash.

To each their own buddy.

Modern horror movies are often more intense and graphic than those from 30-40-50-60 years ago. Different people have their own cut-off points for what they can stomach and enjoy, I myself really enjoy these movies.



I'll always fight in defense of 'torture porn'. Back when the early 00s horror movies started one upping the classics from the 70s and 80s there was a real backlash. Some of those backlashing loved movies like The Thing, The Evil Dead, The Fly, Hellraiser, Day of the Dead, Zombie II, The Beyond... you know, really gory movies. So it always reeked of double standards to me that people who adore gruesome flicks would suddenly draw the line because the newer movies had superior editing and a heavier atmosphere, resulting in a more intense and brutal tone even though the gore was at times lesser than the 80s movies which now felt cheesy in comparison.

A similar thing happens with 'jumpscares'. So many people who complain about them come across as some sort of victim support group "jumpscares are really bad and not scary at all, right guys? haha, so stupid, give me real horror like Nosferatu (1922), now that's scary". Yeah okay. One of my favorite jumpscare criticisms which I've heard several times over the years is "a jumpscare is like a comedian tickling you", they're pretty much admitting it's effective but they feel it's 'cheating'.

I don't think these films are necessarily good, but they're entertaining enough to watch during Halloween. The first film has a good Halloween night vibe. It's best not to take these seriously and just enjoy the stupidity of it all.

It’s extremely gory, but there’s often a layer of comedy underlying it, which mitigates the shock / disturbance in the viewer

Spot on BKB.

Particularly "SAW" movies where the so called plot is only there to segway from one horrific scene of mutilation to the next.


I just feel like there's nothing good that comes from these type of movies
Same .
I feel like saying they should be banned , or people watching them should be on a register ...... but its a free country and that sort censoring or monitoring would be ... worse

I'm with you. There's nothing "tasteful" (for lack of a better term) about the way he goes about in killing people. It's mainly, "how can I kill these random groups of people in the goriest fashion imaginable?". It was a sight to see in the first film but it's gotten to be way overdone in these sequels.

I'm bumping this up in honor of the $18 Million this made at the box office over the weekend. Unreal 🙄