Posted June 2, 200619 yr Texas Chain Saw Massacre Driller Killer Tool Box Murders Zombie Flesh Eaters (2 and 3) Films like them p*** me off! :angry: They were band for being gory and violent, but hardley any blood is shed! i brought them expecting to see people being torn apart in nice violent bloody ways with guts flying everywhere but i was let down when i watched them as there was nothing like that. -_- Driller Killer was the biggest let down, you only see one homeless guy die in detail (quite amusing as he's just sleeping an unexpectantly gets a hole in his head :lol: ), the rest just go "ARGGHHGHGH my god i'm dying!" and keel over, no blood what so ever, it's such a $h!t film, at least but some holes in where we can see them. like drill somebodies eye out, but do they? NO! big pile of $h!te
June 2, 200619 yr No one ever said that Texas Chainsaw Massacre was 'gory' as such, it was banned more for the psychosexual overtones in the violence towards the women; I wont defend any of the others on your list because they are pretty awful films, but you're dead wrong about TCM if you don't think it's a good horror film....
June 2, 200619 yr with driller killer and zombie flesh killers (have to be careful here as there is about 92 different zombi 2s and zombi flesh killer films all using the same title and known as different things) it could be down to a marketing opportunity to create maximum exposure by small gutter distributors than what the films actually about. whip a picture of a man getting his head drilled and people will think its a ultra video nasty where it's probably more like other New York dramas of the time rather than an out and out evil vid. maybe it needs to be racked with Bad Lieutenant instead?
June 2, 200619 yr Sometimes films are better not too gory anyway. I mean, I love a bit of gore, but take The Evil Dead for example. There was just too much gore, he was constantly covered in blood, which for me just makes it not scary at all but actually funny.
June 2, 200619 yr Sometimes films are better not too gory anyway. I mean, I love a bit of gore, but take The Evil Dead for example. There was just too much gore, he was constantly covered in blood, which for me just makes it not scary at all but actually funny. Well, to be fair, Sam Raimi did that whole "extreme gore" thing precisely to create a comedic effect... The Evil Dead films are not really meant to be taken as serious horrors, so if you laughed at it, it had the desired effect...
June 2, 200619 yr Driller Killer is quite gory but the effects are so bad it's just amusing. Hostel is a gory film which I didn't think was gory.
June 3, 200619 yr Hostel is a gory film which I didn't think was gory. Hostel could also be seen as more of a revenge film like Dead Man's Shoes than an out and out gorefest horror, (or Eurotrip with a bit of blood)
June 3, 200619 yr Hostel could also be seen as more of a revenge film like Dead Man's Shoes than an out and out gorefest horror, (or Eurotrip with a bit of blood) Don't compare "Hostel" to "Dead Man's Shoes" - "Dead Man's Shoes" is actually a damn good film..... You couldn't really say that about "Hostel"..... :lol: :lol: "Eurotrip" with a bit of blood, that's a pretty accurate description....
June 3, 200619 yr Don't compare "Hostel" to "Dead Man's Shoes" - "Dead Man's Shoes" is actually a damn good film..... You couldn't really say that about "Hostel"..... :lol: :lol: "Eurotrip" with a bit of blood, that's a pretty accurate description.... was only talking about genres rather than how good it is. however even though eurotrip gave me a few laughs here and there, cabin fever was p*** funny! the only film that it was good to have bladdered girls in front talking through and giving a commentry
June 7, 200619 yr I agree, the first bit of the film is very boring. Good effects for it's day though.
June 7, 200619 yr the exorcist is boring While certainly not the "greatest film of all time" as Mark Kermode would have us believe, I would still say it's a very strong film which deals with strong themes in a mature and adult manner, quite unlike the idiotic "horror" films made for braindead Yank brats these days.... I mean, could you honestly imagine just how lame and pathetic some remake made today would be.....? :puke2:
June 7, 200619 yr Author Evil Dead is great, i love that series (well except 3 thats $h!te). I laugh so much at it. Bruce Cambell is great! :D
June 8, 200619 yr Oh my god, a thread about Evil Dead and The Exorcist!!! I don't know where to begin! I think everyone can admit that by Evil Dead 2, the intent was a goofy, ridiculous, gory film with maybe a few startling moments. But I am one (of the few perhaps) who find the original quite frightening. And I don't believe Raimi intended his first film to be a comedy. Of course it is overly gory and uses silly claymation scenes and obviously fake costumes. But Evil Dead had some genuinely scary moments and a sort of paralyzing doom surrounding it. It seems like the night will NEVER end and poor Ash continue to be tortured by his possessed friends. But I suppose all that sounds absurd to someone who finds the film utterly laughable. The Exorcist is an incredibly powerful film. I think anyone who finds it funny doesn't really get it. It's been caricatured so many times that I don't blame people for seeing it as comedic, but I've seen hundreds of horror films and I still think this one is the scariest ever made.
June 8, 200619 yr Some people will agree with you, some people did kill themselevs because of it afterall... the evil dead was just to cheep and gore every minute
June 8, 200619 yr Oh my god, a thread about Evil Dead and The Exorcist!!! I don't know where to begin! I think everyone can admit that by Evil Dead 2, the intent was a goofy, ridiculous, gory film with maybe a few startling moments. But I am one (of the few perhaps) who find the original quite frightening. And I don't believe Raimi intended his first film to be a comedy. Of course it is overly gory and uses silly claymation scenes and obviously fake costumes. But Evil Dead had some genuinely scary moments and a sort of paralyzing doom surrounding it. It seems like the night will NEVER end and poor Ash continue to be tortured by his possessed friends. But I suppose all that sounds absurd to someone who finds the film utterly laughable. The Exorcist is an incredibly powerful film. I think anyone who finds it funny doesn't really get it. It's been caricatured so many times that I don't blame people for seeing it as comedic, but I've seen hundreds of horror films and I still think this one is the scariest ever made. Not all comedy is of the 'funny ha ha' variety (look at stuff like "Nighty Night" as an example of comedy that can be incredibly dark and disturbing and some films by David Lynch where you're frankly not sure whether to laugh or sh!t yourself in sheer terror..), I see the first "Evil Dead" as being an incredibly dark vein of comedy. Sam Raimi himself said his intent was to do a "black comedy". And let's face it, Bruce Campbell wouldn't really know how to do serious acting if he tried.... :lol: :lol:
June 8, 200619 yr Author I'm find dark comedy very funny (but thats cos i have a sick mind) and thats why enjoy evil dead (1 and 2) so much. they're a complete joke from start to finnish.
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