extreme horror movies

[samuraitrev]

Not for me. Don't get me wrong I love a good horror as much as the next guy but when there's films/scenes which are made for the sole purpose of being shocking/disturbing just for the sake of notoriety I feel no compulsion to watch these films. Most lack even the barest hint of a plot or the reasons for the various atrocities. I know in Friday the 13 the murders were mostly needless and gory but I think nowadays effects have got so realistic that they can cause nightmares or just 'stay with you'.

There are many clips that can be seen on the internet, that I won't name, where you can see real people die and I have met people (even friends) who've seen these and their morbid fascination disturbs me. These are the same people who would have been stood in the market square watching the latest guillotining/hanging witch/midwife trial. Slowing down to see twisted wrecks of cars and people at the side of the road is another example. Perhaps it's just human nature and the fear of personal death that makes us want to see.

I studied sociology for a year and it opened my eyes with regards to the news broadcasts and newspapers. Fear and death sell almost as much as sex. If a serial killer or someone, somewhere gets executed the papers will sell like wildfire. Yet someone raises tens of thousands climbing Everest for a charity it will barely get a mention. Are we all sick? No, not at all. Although I do believe as a society (in the main) we are more intrigued by the darker side of human nature.

Anyway back to your initial question. In a nutshell I have no desire to watch a film that will make me feel genuinely sick or mentally scar me for life. I don't judge anyone who's into that kind of stuff (each to their own) but I will repeat. Not for me.